Fox News host Jesse Watters added yet another rule Wednesday to his ever-growing list of what men “should never” do. The conservative pundit drew ridicule for his latest dictum from social media users — who couldn’t help but note the seeming hypocrisies.
Watters appeared personally affronted by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who recently shared a picture of himself on Instagram that appeared to have been digitally altered, as the bench he was leaning against in the photo was warped around his hips.
“Rules for men: A man should never Photoshop his picture, ever,” Watters said on “The Five” Wednesday. “A man who Photoshops his picture is a woman. And you never shrink your hips. Why is he shrinking his hips? Does he have childbearing hips?”
“What is it about his hips that he’s uncomfortable with?” he continued.
Watters has given these lectures on masculinity for some time now: He previously instructed men on how they should wave and ridiculed those who accompany their wives to the grocery store. His latest pronouncement appeared to fall flat on social media.
“Now do [President Donald] Trump…. Fake Tan, Fake hair and Fake Marriage,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, with another person commenting: “Real men do whatever they want without considering what Jesse happens to think.”
Watters was asked Wednesday by co-host Harold Ford Jr. if he has ever altered a photo of himself, and seemed incapable of simply answering the question without continuing to ascribe the act to women — or bringing his wife, Emma DiGiovine, into the picture.
“Me?” Watters asked his co-host in apparent disbelief. “Emma, but not me. No she doesn’t Photoshop but she does things, I think. I don’t know. Actually she doesn’t. She doesn’t, but you know how women do, they do stuff.”
Jeffries appears to have deleted the Instagram image that set Watters off. His office did not immediately return a HuffPost request for comment about the photo-editing accusations.
The Democratic congressman recently broke the record for giving the longest House floor speech in U.S. history, and did so in protest of the GOP’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill — which was ultimately signed into law last week and will kick millions of people off of Medicaid.
Watters, a pro-Trump pundit who argued earlier this year that “deportation” is one of the most “beautiful” words, has previously been criticized for saying men should never eat soup in public, use a straw or drink milk shakes. His latest rule is currently receiving similar pushback on social media.
One particularly baffled user wrote on X: “Wtf is going on over there at Fox ‘News.’”