Fox News host Jesse Watters bizzarely bragged about a familial breakdown that saw his Kamala Harris-supporting mother shut him out of Thanksgiving, only for him to decline her olive branch invitation to come over the next day by saying he’d rather shop at Best Buy.
Watters manifested his bitter feelings over his mother’s snub Monday in a monologue where he played clips from MSNBC segments that discussed how people should approach their Donald Trump supporting relatives and acquaintances following his election win.
“Since they can’t stop us, we’re not invited to Thanksgiving,” he said before the clips rolled.
One MSNBC guest he showed advised people wary of Trump supporters in their life that they are entitled to “take some space” during the holiday season.
Then Watters mentioned his own tit-for-tat feud with the woman that brought him into the world.
“People are taking some space in the Watters household,” said the Jesse Watters Primetime host. ”I‘ll have you know that I wasn’t invited to my mother‘s house for Thanksgiving. Apparently, there wasn’t enough room.”
Watters smirked and laughed recounting the incident before disclosing that, in the true spirit of a loving son, he retaliated with a bitter rejection of his own mother.
“She said there was as scheduling situation and then at the last second invited me to come over on Black Friday,” he said. “I told her ‘no thanks, I‘ll be at Best Buy.’”
What Watters didn’t mention was that his mother may well have had a good reason for the snub: he was apparently such a pain at Thanksgiving the first time Trump won election that everyone who showed up left.
“For the eight years under Obama, Thanksgiving and Christmas were tough,” he told the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2018. “I had a long stretch there where I had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, and it was frustrating. But that first Thanksgiving after Trump won, I cleared out the entire Thanksgiving table. It got a little tense.”
Anne Purvis, Watters’ mom and a child psychologist, has long been a critic of her son‘s political views. He’s even read some of her blistering texts to him on air.
“We are a nation of laws,” she once messaged him “Please tone down the strident attack on our court system. You end up presenting a lack of a moral compass honey. We all know you are a Trumpet—you need not scream it.”
Despite their warring over politics and their stalemate over turkey, she told the Inquirer, “I love him constantly and unconditionally.”
