A photo of Jesse Watters and Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff.Photo:Roy Rochlin/Getty; ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty
Roy Rochlin/Getty; ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty
During a segment onJesse Watters Primetime, Watters, 46,discussed a clipof Emhoff grocery shopping with his wife, former Vice PresidentKamala Harris.
“What kind of husband goes grocery shopping with his wife?” Watters jokingly asked.
“A normal one?” one person commented onX, along with several others who criticized Watters for asking the question.
“What kind of husband does not?” another commenter said onX, while a further userjoked, “This has to be a skit.”
Some husbands chimed in as well, with onewriting on X, “My wife I shop together, frequently! So what is Watters’ issue?” Anothersaid, “Dude needs to get out more. Heck, I do a lot of the grocery shopping since I love cooking and eating.”
Fox anchor Jesse Watters on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’.John Lamparski/Getty
John Lamparski/Getty
In April 2022 hesparked controversyafter he shared that he once “let the air out of” his now-wifeEmma DiGiovine’s tires when he “was trying to get [her] to date” him.
“She couldn’t go anywhere. She needed a lift, I said, ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car,” Watters said during an episode of his panel seriesThe Five.
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“Is that the first time you did it or did you use that before?” askedJeanine Pirroabout Watters' tire-deflating strategy, to which he responded at the time, “Works like a charm.”
“It has a happy ending!” added Watters, who wed DiGiovine in December 2019. “We’re married!”
Doug Emhoff and Kamala Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Chip Somodevilla/Getty
“This is historical fact that slaves did develop skills while they were enslaved and used those skills as blacksmiths, in agriculture, tailoring, in the shipping business, to then use to benefit themselves and their families once they were freed,” Watters said onThe Five.
Stating that theissue was “not controversial,“Watters added that it “actually speaks to the resistance and the aptitude of the enslaved African Americans who were at the time able to better themselves and able to improve their situation despite brutal, brutal conditions.”
source: people.com
