Better Call Saul actor unloads on ‘simpleton’ Jesse Watters after Fox host calls Karine Jean-Pierre a ‘DEI hire’

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Better Call Saul actor unloads on ‘simpleton’ Jesse Watters after Fox host calls Karine Jean-Pierre a ‘DEI hire’

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drew flak from an unexpected quarter on Wednesday after he referred to former White House press secretary

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, the first ****** American to hold that role, as a “DEI hire.”

The host of ********** was discussing Jean-Pierre’s surprise announcement that she has left the Democratic Party and written a new book explaining that decision, titled Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.

Referring to Jean-Pierre disparagingly as “Binder” throughout the segment, seemingly because she carried a binder of notes to her briefing sessions with reporters during her tenure in the Biden administration, Watters was scathing.

“Binder spent two years lying from a podium and now she wants to tell us the truth?” he scoffed, going on to suggest she had only ever been hired as part of the diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] hiring practices that Trump has since made it his personal mission to eradicate.

Jesse Watters hosting his Fox News show on Wednesday June 4 2025 (Fox News/X)

“Look at the name of the book: Inside a Broken White House. Now she’s telling us the White House was broken?” Watters continued.

“Wait a second, who else wrote a book about this? Yeah, Tapper. Binder’s now DEI Tapper. I wonder who got paid more.”

A clip of the Fox pundit’s comments shared on X by the ever-prolific Acyn was leapt on by veteran actor Michael McKean, best known to audiences as Chuck McGill in Better Call Saul (2015-2022) and, before that, hapless heavy metal band frontman David St Hubbins in This Is Spinal Tap (1984).

“In all fairness, Jesse is a simpleton and a blazing a**hole,” McKean

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, a sentiment shared by a number of other commentators reacting to the video.

Other recent controversies on Watters’ show have included rapper

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claiming that “ugly a** liberal women” are the reason for America’s declining birthrate and the host himself declaring that “everyone knows” that wearing a Chicago Bulls cap is a signifier that the wearer belongs to the notorious Central American criminal gang MS-13.

Over the weekend, Watters joked that all of Sports Illustrated’s swimwear models were obese in the Biden era because of political correctness considerations.

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Karine Jean-Pierre in her former role as Joe Biden’s White House press secretary (Getty)

Jean-Pierre’s book follows hot on the heels of Original Sin by

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and Alex Thompson, in which the CNN and Axios journalists lift the lid on the final year of

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’s presidency and the alleged effort to cover up the 46th commander-in-chief’s declining health by his closest aides.

President

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ordered an investigation into that affair on Wednesday.

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