Jesse Watters Roasts Himself For Not Calling Out Trump While Markets Tank: ‘If Biden Was Golfing During a Stock Market Like This…’
Fox News host Jesse Watters dropped some self-deprecating humor on Monday while reacting to Democrats’ outrage over former President Donald Trump hitting the links over the weekend, despite a dramatic downturn in the stock market.
The conservative network mainstay noted he had not joined Democrats in criticizing Trump over the weekend for golfing amid the economic uncertainty of the past several trading days.
Trump announced his sweeping reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday of last week. Thursday and Friday the Dow lost 1,600 and 2,200 points, respectively.
The president spent the weekend golfing at his resorts in South Florida. He also skipped the transfer of the bodies of four soldiers killed overseas in order to attend an event at his course. Democrats in Congress hit Trump for taking time to hit the links, as did protestors at nationwide rallies and MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.
On The Five, cohost Dana Perino aired clips of the blowback. Watters reacted by roasting himself and acknowledging his partisanship – saying he would have never been critical of former President Joe Biden if the roles were reversed.
Perino led with the criticism of Trump and said, “Jesse, one of the things I cannot stand is complaints about golf.” Watters replied with a grin:
Me too. And that’s not a middle finger to middle America. That’s a middle finger to all these foreign countries who are trying to get on the phone and negotiate these tariffs down. But if Biden was golfing during a stock market like this, I’m sure I wouldn’t say a word.
Cohost Greg Gutfeld joked, “You wouldn’t.”
Watters responded, “I would not. I know I’m not panicking, Dana, because I’m not looking. I haven’t looked at my bank account. I’m afraid.”
The host of Jesse Watters Primetime has never been shy about his conservative leanings – and how his politics differ from his mother, who he has told Fox viewers time and again is extremely liberal.
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