Jesse Watters Roasted For Audacious Complaint About Michelle Obama | EUROtoday

Jesse Watters was not impressed after Michelle Obama mentioned she wouldn’t attend GOP President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, though neither Trump nor his spouse attended Democrat Joe Biden’s 4 years in the past.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Jesse Watters Primetime,” the Fox News host complained that the previous first girl had already missed former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral final week. Aides to Obama, who would have been seated subsequent to Trump on the service, mentioned she was in Hawaii at time.

“She just doesn’t want to go,” Watters mentioned of the inauguration, earlier than occurring to reference Obama’s husband, former President Barack Obama. “Michelle’s hanging Barack out to dry for the second high-profile political event within just a few weeks. Why are Barack and Michelle on such different pages? Barack can’t convince his wife she has to do her duty and attend the inauguration?”

“I remember when it was unpatriotic to skip an inauguration,” he added, pointing to media retailers making “sore loser” criticisms of Trump in 2021 when he declined to go to Biden’s swearing-in and as a substitute flew to his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida.

“The media and the Democrats are singing a different tune now that it’s one of their own breaking the norms they claim to love so much.”

The circumstances are considerably totally different. When Donald Trump and partner Melania Trump skipped Biden’s inauguration, the Republican politician had been claiming for months, with out proof, that the 2020 election had been “stolen” from him.

Two weeks earlier than Inauguration Day in 2021, a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters, spurred by his lies, attacked the U.S. Capitol in an try to forestall the certification of the election outcomes.

He was “the first president in more than 150 years … to skip his successor’s swearing-in for reasons other than ill-health,” the Council on Foreign Relations assume tank wrote on the time.

Trump persistently eroded and ignored norms throughout his presidency and past. Last yr, he was publicly likened by his personal former chief of workers to a fascist who would govern like a dictator if allowed.

Some Democrats, together with Barack Obama, have been accused of normalizing Trump following his 2024 election win by being civil.

Michelle Obama didn’t present a motive for her determination to not attend the president-elect’s upcoming inauguration. She campaigned fiercely in opposition to Trump, who final week formally grew to become a convicted felon, and in October she mentioned, “in any other profession or arena, Trump’s criminal track record and amoral character would be embarrassing, shameful and disqualifying.”

Barack Obama is predicted to attend Trump’s inauguration, as are former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, plus their wives, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former first girl Laura Bush.

Watters’ criticism of Michelle Obama set off some profuse eye-rolling on social media.