Jesse Watters of Fox Announces Vacation After Ivanka Trump Comment -
By DANIEL VICTORAPRIL 27, 2017
Jesse Watters, the Fox News host who took heat this week for making a joke about Ivanka Trump
that was criticized as lewd, said on Wednesday that he would be taking a family vacation until Monday.
Mr. Watters, who denied that his comment about President Trump’s daughter was sexual, announced his upcoming absence near the end of Wednesday night’s edition of “The Five.” He will miss two days of the show’s first week in prime time after it took over the 9 p.m. slot from “Tucker Carlson Tonight”
and he will miss his “Watters’ World” show on Saturday.
It replaced “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” which moved to 8 p.m., not “The O’Reilly Factor.”
A version of this article appears in print on April 28, 2017, on Page B4 of the New York edition
with the headline: Under Fire for Ivanka Trump Comment, Watters Announces Vacation.
A Fox News spokeswoman declined to comment on whether the vacation had been planned before “The Five” moved to its new
time slot, or if the time off was related to the criticism Mr. Watters had received throughout much of Wednesday.
Then he added with a grin: “So I don’t really get what’s going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone.”
On Wednesday, after the clip had been shared widely on social media, Mr. Watters said in a statement
that the comment had not been sexual innuendo, as critics perceived it to be.
An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the program “The Five” replaced at the 9 p.m. slot on Fox News Channel.
