Fox News' Jesse Watters at Turning Point USA's 2018 Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
Now 19, Barron Trump is President Donald Trump's youngest child, his only child with First Lady Melania Trump, and a half-brother of Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump and Tiffany Trump.
Fox News' Jesse Watters aired a gushing segment on Barron Trump, and his comments are drawing plenty of mockery on X, formerly Twitter.
Watters told his colleague Julie Banderas that Barron Trump recently brought a woman to Trump Tower in New York City and "shut the whole floor down so he could be alone." The Fox News host noted comments from interviewees in a People article who described Barron Trump as "a ladies' man" and "really popular with the ladies" as well as "tall and handsome."
Watters told Banderas, "Imagine a guy brings you back to Trump Tower, and the whole floor is shut down" — to which she responded, "If the guy's a Trump, then I would believe it…. But man, this guy's got game. I mean, six-foot-seven, and he's got a whole floor at Trump Tower for a frickin' date. I hope something good came out of that date."
It didn't take long for mockery and negative comments to show up on X.
Media Matthews' Matthew Gertz, on October 1, tweeted, "Creepiest s—imaginable — two middle aged Fox stars discussing on national television how Barron Trump is a 'ladies man' who has 'got game,' and contemplating whether he got l— on a recent date.
X user Josiah Waters posted, "Fox is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the WH."
Another X user, Sir Damon Eric, remarked, "Jesse only wishes he was like Barron."
X user Catch Up wrote, "Jesse Watters fawns over Barron Trump taking a girl back to his pad."