Fox News host Jesse Watters is being roasted after he made waves this week when he tried to make fun of former second husband Doug Emhoff for running a normal errand.
via: People
During a segment on Fox News Live, Watters, 46, discussed a clip of Emhoff grocery shopping with his wife, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
“What kind of husband goes grocery shopping with his wife?” Watters asked.
“A normal one?” one person commented on X, along with several others who criticized Watters for asking the question.
“What kind of husband does not?” another commenter said on X, while a further user joked, “This has to be a skit.”
Some husbands chimed in as well, with one writing on X, “My wife I shop together, frequently! So what is Watters’ issue?” Another said, “Dude needs to get out more. Heck, I do a lot of the grocery shopping since I love cooking and eating.”
This isn’t the first time Watters has received backlash for comments he’s made on a Fox broadcast.
Shortly after Harris entered the presidential race in July 2024, Watters made similarly controversial comments about masculinity in response to a “White Dudes for Harris” fundraising event, saying that he couldn’t understand why “any man would vote Democrat” because it’s “not the party of strength.”
“And to be a man and then vote for a woman just because she’s a woman is either childish — that person has mommy issues — or they are just trying to be accepted by other women,” Watters said, before adding the divisive line: “I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.”
In April 2022 he sparked controversy after he shared that he once “let the air out of” his now-wife Emma DiGiovine’s tires when he “was trying to get [her] to date” him.
“She couldn’t go anywhere. She needed a lift, I said, ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car,” Watters said during an episode of his panel series The Five.
“Is that the first time you did it or did you use that before?” asked Jeanine Pirro about Watters’ tire-deflating strategy, to which he responded at the time, “Works like a charm.”
“It has a happy ending!” added Watters, who wed DiGiovine in December 2019. “We’re married!”
The moment subsequently went viral on social media, drawing a range of reactions and criticism. This prompted Watters to clarify in a later episode of the show that his comments about the incident had been “a joke” and he had “never deflated anyone’s tires.”
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This guy is an idiot who's clearly out of touch with the average American. It's good to know that not every dumb thing these pundits say to keep us fighting among each other is accepted by the Fox News audience.
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