PhotoJesse Watters, the Bill O’Reilly protégé who recently moved to the 9 p.m. slot on Fox News as a host of the “The Five,” made a comment on Tuesday that critics saw as a lewd joke directed at Ivanka Trump. Responding to footage of Ms. Trump being jeered on stage in Berlin while speaking on a panel about female entrepreneurship, Mr. Watters first defended Ms. Trump, the daughter of President Trump. “This was in no way a joke about anything else.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyHis critics were unconvinced, believing the comment to be innuendo. Mr. Watters had already been steadily on the rise. Mr. Watters said the October segment was “meant to be taken as tongue-in-cheek and I regret if anyone found offense.”

Source: New York Times April 26, 2017 19:09 UTC