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Jesse Watters' history of inflammatory and dehumanizing remarks

Media Matters for America · Helena Hind and Isabella Corrao · last updated

Fox News host Jesse Watters’ inflammatory rhetoric has reached new lows during the second Trump administration. After the right-wing prime-time host said last week that America needed to bomb or “maybe gas” the United Nations headquarters, Reuters reported that the international governing body had reached out to Fox News and that Watters privately apologized. No such apology was given on-air.

Watters has a history of espousing extreme views. For years, he has engaged in hateful rhetoric, such as against homeless people; he also openly hyped a Trump “revenge tour” against his political enemies.

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