SATURDAY: Trump never fails to say "Hussein!"

SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2026

A tool pretends to explain: The meltdown came from various directions in the course of this past week. 

In one venue, the meltdown started with a set of video clips. The clips were aired at the start of a segment on Thursday's edition of The Five.  

As you know, The Five is the most-watched program in American "cable news." As you can see by clicking this link, the segment to which we refer started with these video clips:  

PRESIDENT TRUMP (6/22/26): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you ever heard of him?   

PRESIDENT TRUMP (6/4/26): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?

PRESIDENT TRUMP (7/22/25): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?

PRESIDENT TRUMP (1/27/26): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you—have you heard of him?   

The dates were included as the four clips played. The point of this otherwise pointless presentation was obvious.  

President Trump can't seem to stop talking about Barack Obama. During the segment in question, Jesse Watters was the first messaging agent to state his view about this situation. 

He quickly offered an explanation for President Trump's behavior:

WATTERS (6/25/26): Trump talks a lot. He says a lot of things. So yeah, he’s gonna mention Barack Hussein Obama. 

Part of that is just, he likes to say "Hussein."  

President Trump just likes to say "Hussein," this simpering man boy said!

Let's state what's blindingly obvious. There's a reason why the sitting president always includes the former president's middle name.  Also, everyone knows what that reason is. 

In reality, everyone knows why Trump always says "Hussein."  As Watters tried to move to his next point, Jessica Tarlov interrupted and asked an obvious question:

WATTERS (continuing directly): But the other part of it—

TARLOV:  Why does he like to say "Hussein?"

Why does he like to say "Hussein?" With that, the die had been cast.  

In the past, we've described the programming of the Fox News Channel as an assault on the very possibility of continuing the American project, such as that project has been.  The idiocy of Watters and his towel-snapping partner, Greg Gutfeld, is a major part of the frontal assault waged by this corporate entity.

What shape will that practiced idiocy take at a moment like this? Below, you see the way Watters responded to Tarlov's question:

WATTERS (continuing directly): Cause it’s funny that the president’s middle name was Hussein. You don’t think that’s hysterical?

TARLOV: No, I don’t. 

WATTERS: OK, OK! It was the name of the dictator—

TARLOV: I think it’s interesting in the context of saying that he’s a Muslim. Which is why he says it, so that people still think that he’s a Muslim.  

GUTFELD: It's so problematic.   

Stating the obvious, everyone knows that's why Trump keeps saying Obama's middle name. Everyone except the corporate tool Watters, who's paid fantastic sums, by the Murdoch empire, to recite the corporation's agitprop and to play the fool in this way.   

Jesse Watters stepped forward this day to play the fool again! In his view, why does President Trump keep saying "Hussein" whenever he mentions President Obama?   

According to the corporate messaging agent, President Trump likes to say "Hussein" just because it's funny! It's just funny that President Obama shares a name with Saddam Hussein, this simpering idiot said. 

Needless to say, that isn't what Watters actually thinks. Surprised by the rare interruption from Tarlov, he struggled to keep his practiced idiocy on the winning side of the street.   

We're sorry, but Barack Obama isn't a Muslim! (As everyone knows, millions of good, decent American citizens actually are.)  

Still, the sitting president wants to float that possibly scary suggestion. Everyone, including Watters, knows that's why the sitting president does what he constantly does.

Stating the obvious, Watters knows why President Trump does what he constantly does. He also knows that that is why the "news channel" which employs and scripts him opened that grisly segment with four ululations of "Hussein" by the sitting president.   

As Thursday's segment proceeded, Watters attempted to recover, in a way we won't describe. It ended with the little mutt Gutfeld extending his twice-daily practice of undermining the possibility of the American project, such as it has been:   

WATTERS: I don’t know what he is. I don’t care what he is. He’s probably an atheist.

TARLOV: You know what he is!

WATTERS: He is, I know. He’s retired.  

GUTFELD: No god-fearing person would eat a dog.  

That's what the second mutt said!   

Watters and Gutfeld are the two leading players at today's Fox News Channel. They co-host (and dominate) The Five, the nation's most-watched cable news program.  

Jesse Watters Primetime (8 p.m.) is the nation's second most-watched "cable news" show. Gutfeld!, which airs at 10 p.m. (that's 7 p.m. out on the coast), is #4 on the national list.  

Regarding Watters himself, let us briefly say this. It's amazing to see how far the clown-adjacent propagandist has fallen, distinguished ancestry-wise:

Jesse Watters   

Jesse Bailey Watters (born July 9, 1978) is an American conservative political commentator and television program host on the Fox News cable television network. He frequently appeared earlier in his media career on The O'Reilly Factor, the political talk show hosted by commentator/moderator Bill O'Reilly... 

[...] 

Watters was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Stephen Hapgood Watters, a teacher, and child psychologist Anne Purvis, daughter of Morton Bailey Jr., publisher of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. His maternal great-grandfather was another Morton Bailey, publisher of the prominent longtime magazine The Saturday Evening Post; his maternal great-great-grandfather was Morton Shelley Bailey (1855–1922), a lawyer, politician, state senator, and district judge in Colorado, later serving as an Associate Justice on the Colorado Supreme Court.

Watters' paternal grandfather, Franklin Benjamin Watters, was a cardiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Newington, Connecticut, and a professor at the University of Connecticut Medical Dental School...

Watters has Irish ancestry on his father's side. Watters is named after his mother's great-grandfather, Jesse Andrew Burnett, an associate chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court in their state capital of Topeka, Kansas. 

Reversion to (well below) the mean has taken place with remarkable speed within this particular family. The leading authority also includes a lengthy section concerning this peculiar fellow's peculiar views regarding the various ways boys and girls should correctly behave:   

Comments on masculinity

Watters criticized former President Joe Biden for licking ice cream in public as "a grown man." He has instructed men on how they should wave and belittled those who grocery shop with their wives. In September 2024, Jesse Watters was criticized for comments he made on The Five regarding Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota and a running mate of the US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who had shared a photo of himself drinking a milkshake with a paper straw. Watters mocked the image as an example of Walz's lack of masculinity because he used a straw, which he claimed made women not like Walz, because women like masculinity. He said that asking for a "vanilla shake" instead of a "vanilla ice cream shake" also makes men look weak...

In March 2025, Watters listed his "five rules for men" on The Five – don't be that serious, just be funny; don't eat soup in public; don't cross your legs; don't drink from a straw, and don't wave simultaneously with two hands because men wave with one hand, not both hands at the same time. He added that one of the reasons you don't drink from a straw is the way your lips purse, which is very effeminate... 

And on and on from there. Gender rules without end, amen. This idiocy never stops.

In fairness, full disclosure:

Sometimes, Watters seems to be lapsing into his "I'm just a silly dimwit" comedic persona when he makes these inane observations. On balance, though, we get the impression that he really believes this idiocy, which he routinely traffics.   

Returning to Thursday's segment:   

Everyone knows why President Trump never fails to say "Hussein." Also, everyone knows why the Fox News Channel opened Thursday's segment with those video clips.   

Like President Trump, the bosses believe their audience is dumb enough to be swayed by such messaging. We know of no sign that this belief is wrong. 

A downfall started in earnest this week. Starting on Monday, we'll be discussing that latest menacing assault on the American project.  

For today, one final point:   

Who is most at fault as this latest assault takes shape? Their names are legion, and their names are Blue. 

They're the overpaid stars who work for the New York Times, for MS NOW, and also for the Atlantic. They refuse to report or discuss the potent behavior which occurs on the Fox News Channel. 

Their own corporate checks are spending real good. To a man, to a woman, they have agreed to avert their gaze. They have agreed not to speak.

Also this: For a report on that segment by Mediaite, you can just click here.