Fox News host Jesse Watters revealed that his mother did not invite him to Thanksgiving this year after Donald Trump’s win in the 2024 presidential election.
Watters mentioned the snub on Monday during his monologue where he also played a compilation video of MSNBC guests telling their audience that they have a right to avoid their Trump supporting relatives this holiday season.
“Since they can’t stop us, we’re not invited to Thanksgiving,” Watters said before showing the clips.
“If you are going through a situation where you have family members or you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, that are against your livelihood, then it’s completely fine to not be around those people, and to tell them why,” Yale University chief psychiatric resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun told MSNBC’s Joy Reid in a clip Watters aired on his show.
“To say, ‘I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood, and I’m not going to be around you this holiday, I need to take some space for me.’”
Watters then revealed to his audience that his liberal mom did not invite him to Thanksgiving.
“People are taking some space in the Watters household,” he said. “I’ll have you know that I wasn’t invited to my mother’s house for Thanksgiving. Apparently, there wasn’t enough room.”
“She said it was a scheduling situation,” Watters continued. “And then at the last second invited me to come over on Black Friday. I told her, ‘No thanks, I’ll be at Best Buy.’”
But, it would appear that Watters’ mom has good reason not to invite him to Thanksgiving based on past behavior.
“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,” he continued. “But that first Thanksgiving after Trump won, I cleared out the entire Thanksgiving table. It got a little tense.”
