Over the weekend, left-wing activists gathered for the ironically titled “No Kings” rallies, aimed at protesting President Donald Trump—yes, still. Among the participants was an unexpected face: the mother of Fox News host Jesse Watters.
Watters revealed the surprising family twist during Monday’s episode of The Five, where he expressed disbelief that his own mother, Anne Purvis, had joined the demonstration in Long Island, NY.
“I know my mom was there. Can you believe my mom was there? Sometimes I think I was adopted,” Watters quipped, referencing the ongoing joke about his liberal mother, who notably skipped Thanksgiving dinner with him last year.
The broader segment took aim at the endless cycle of anti-Trump protests—Astroturf spectacles that seem to be the last source of energy on the Left. From the pink-hat “Women’s March” of 2017 to the chaos of BLM and the recent protests over Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter, Watters pointed out the unifying obsession: Trump.
“They do these things—the Women’s March, BLM, the Musk stuff. The issues change, but the one thing that stays the same is Trump,” he explained. “They think this guy’s like crack cocaine. They get these big bursts of energy every once in a while, but long-term, this has been bad for their health. They’ve lost all power in Washington, and they’ve lost their minds.”
And according to Watters, the so-called “No Kings” crowd is living proof of progressive hypocrisy. These are the same people, he said, who demanded vaccine mandates, celebrated censorship under the guise of “misinformation,” and cheerlead government control over healthcare and speech—all while claiming to oppose tyranny.
“They love kings. They love the government telling them what to do,” Watters argued. “Democrats love it! They love to submit, they love to conform, it’s what they do.”
While some of the protesters may understand their own motives—Watters gave his mom that much credit—he argued most are just showing up for the vibes. “Some of them do, like my mom knew, but if you stick a mic in front of their face, they have no clue. They’re just kind of walking around.”
Meanwhile, over on Outnumbered, Fox News co-hosts joined in the mockery, ridiculing the protests as a geriatric cosplay of 1960s activism. Former NYPD inspector and criminal justice analyst Paul Mauro pulled no punches.
“The average age was the average temperature in New York City in July,” Mauro said dryly. “It was just a Woodstock reunion.”
Mauro also noted the glaring lack of diversity at the protest, describing it as “uniformly white, almost entirely,” and observed that “while it was peaceful and colorful, there were radical groups there everywhere.”
As for the rally’s core slogan—“No Kings”—Watters had the perfect response: “Trump’s no king. If Trump was a king, you wouldn’t have had a rally like this. You wouldn’t have people going on TV calling him Nazi, and you wouldn’t have the government shutdown.”
He also took aim at the sudden left-wing love for the Constitution. “All these people on the left saying ‘the Constitution, I love the Constitution,’” he said. “You called the guys who wrote it racists, old white men. And then you tore down their statues, so don’t tell me you love the Constitution—you don’t.”
