Jesse Watters’s Show Makes Just One Reference to Stock Market Freefall — From a Worried Spring Breaker

Fox News’ Jesse Watters got through an entire broadcast without mentioning Monday’s epic stock market crash — save for one spring breaker bringing it up.

While the Jesse Watters Primetime covered everything from Democrats in crisis to Michelle Obama’s forthcoming podcast, there was zero time devoted to the nightmare on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted over a thousand points Monday.

“Last election, young voters swung toward Trump in a pretty big way,” Watters said as he introduced the segment. “He won nearly half of them. That’s up from just a third in 2020. They were motivated by the economy and the border. And Johnny went to spring break in Fort Lauderdale to explore that.”

The “man on the beach” segment involved correspondent Johnny Belisario asking various swimsuit-clad spring breakers in Florida for their take on various issues, from “the wildest thing you’ve seen on spring break?” to “What issue facing America is most important to you?”

The answers to the latter question ranged from the raunchy (“more hotter guys down here”) to the absurd (“protecting dogs, cats and squirrels”), but then one shirtless beachgoer declared “the stock market crashing.”

The same spring breaker appeared later in the montage of vacationing students, when asked what President Donald Trump has been doing.

“Harassing that dude at the meeting,” he said. “I forgot his name. The president of Ukraine, bro.”

The Dow closed at -890 points over recession fears fueled by Trump’s repeated refusal to rule out a recession over the weekend — first during a Fox News interview that aired Sunday morning and then during an Air Force One press gaggle.

The market crash led CNBC’s Jim Cramer to target Trump, accusing the commander in chief of “manufacturing” a recession. New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman told CNN that Trump and his team can’t easily “explain away” a second straight week of cratering markets — and that Trump has no “clear strategy.” Fox Business’ Charles Gasparino pleaded with the Trump administration to stop discussing tariffs.

Watch video above, via Fox News.

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