Fox News primetime host admits his own mother joined massive anti-Trump protests

Fox News may be President Donald Trump's favorite network, but one of its top primetime hosts just admitted that even his own family members don't like the president.

The Daily Beast reported Monday that during a segment on the primetime show "The Five," host Jesse Watters told his co-panelists that his own mother attended last weekend's "No Kings" protests. According to TV Insider, Watters' mother, Anne, is a Democrat.

“I know my mom was there,” Watters said. “Can you believe my mom was there? Sometimes I think I was adopted.”

According to organizers, approximately seven million people in all 50 states and in several cities around the country attended one of the roughly 2,700 "No Kings" events on Saturday. The Saturday demonstrations were even larger than the June 14 "No Kings" protests, which brought out approximately five million people.

President Donald Trump appeared to bristle at the "No Kings" label in a Saturday interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, saying: "They're referring to me as a king. I'm not a king." He later posted two AI-generated videos to his Truth Social platform that evening — one showed him wearing a crown and a royal cloak while holding a sword, spliced together with footage of Democrats kneeling during 2020 racial justice protests while Avenged Sevenfold's "Hail to the King" played in the background. Another video showed him flying a fighter jet over a crowd of protesters while dumping feces on them.

Watters took over former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's primetime spot on the conservative network in 2023, after Carlson was abruptly fired in response to a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. Fox ultimately paid $787.5 million to settle the case. After Watters formally took over Carlson's slot, his mother called to wish him well.

"Do not tumble into any conspiracy rabbit holes," Anne Watters said. "We do not want to lose you, and we want no lawsuits. Okay?"

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