Fox News' Jesse Watters takes abrupt vacation after controversial remarks about Ivanka Trump

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April 27, 2017 5:39 AM

"So I don't really get what's going on here ..."

Fox News' Jesse Watters reportedly is taking a vacation, one day after making what some saw as suggestive remarks about Ivanka Trump.

CNN's Brian Stelter and the CNNMoney media team reported on Wednesday that Watters, who is a cohost of "The Five," would miss two days of his first week in the show's 9 p.m. time slot.

"I'm going to be taking a vacation with my family, so I'm not going to be here tomorrow," Watters said on Wednesday night's show. "I'll be back on Monday, so don't miss me too much."

On a Tuesday night segment about Trump's appearance at a women's empowerment summit, Watters commented on the way she held a microphone.

"It's funny, the left says they really respect women, and then when given an opportunity to respect a woman like that, they boo and hiss," he said. "So I don't really get what's going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone."

On Wednesday morning, Watters denied accusations that his comment carried lewd overtones.

"On air I was referring to Ivanka's voice and how it resonates like a smooth jazz radio DJ," Watters tweeted. "This was in no way a joke about anything else."

Watters has in the past made controversial remarks. During the 2016 presidential election, he was accused of racially stereotyping Asian-Americans in a TV segment in which he asked them whether it was the "year of the dragon" and whether they knew karate.

Listen to Watters' remarks:

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