Fox News’ Jesse Watters compared the US eyeing up Greenland to ‘dropping atomic bombs on Japan’ – 17 properly stunned reactions

Just when you thought Fox News couldn’t surprise you (or possibly sink any further into the mire) it goes and pulls out its joker.

Or, in this case, presenter Jesse Watters who’s been thinking long and hard about Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland and JD Vance’s three hour (count ’em!) trip to a US military base there last week.

And – hard to believe we know – this is what he came up with, a properly stunning piece of TV which neatly sums up where we are now – and is a frankly terrifying hint at where we could go next.

Watters: We don’t need friends. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they are our ally… America is not handcuffed by history pic.twitter.com/3oQ2ovMuys

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 29, 2025

Extraordinary scenes. And these people surely said it best.

1.

Unhinged, demented imbecility fed to millions of fellow imbeciles. https://t.co/ySVCtlY3Lh

— Spiro’s Ghost (@AntiToxicPeople) March 29, 2025

2.

This fucker is unhinged. This is Solovyev-level propaganda that Kremlin TV servers daily. WTF is happening with Fox News?!?!? https://t.co/141DjslHRX

— Branislav Slantchev (@slantchev) March 29, 2025

3.

Who is this man’s mother and why did she let him speak on national TV without a helmet?@JesseBWatters just said:

“We don’t need friends… We dropped A-bombs on Japan and now they’re our ally… America is not handcuffed by history.”

Dude. That’s not foreign policy—that’s a war…

— Frank C (@FrankC164) March 29, 2025

4.

This is not good.

It’s psychological preparation of the political battlefield. https://t.co/w0aDMSNsTB

— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) March 29, 2025

5.

How is this any different, even a little bit, from Russian state TV? Taking Greenland by force or coersion would make us every bit the international pariah that Russia, Iran, and North Korea are. And this bozo is OK with that.

— William Hastings (@WillyPete300) March 29, 2025

6.

Well, you dropped A bombs on Japan after Japan attacked you and once it had become clear that the then-leadership intended to take the whole country down with them in an orgy of blood rather than surrender. That’s 2 nuances that seem to be lost on you, mate. https://t.co/y13mIETzA9

— Laurent Franckx ️‍ (@LaurentFranckx) March 29, 2025

7.

Are these fox news people crazy?

— ‘Dipo (@DipoFCCA) March 29, 2025

8.

They’re comparing dropping nuclear bombs on Japan and becoming allies with them… to forcefully taking over Greenland from Denmark??? WHAT??? Are you implying you’d also bomb us?????

IT’S INSANITY IT’S ACTUALLY INSANE https://t.co/NtN2vXOEaW

— ♦️Enchandted♦️ (@enchandted) March 29, 2025

9.

America isn’t handcuffed by history just by the people who clearly learned nothing from it.

— Nikos (@NikosReggae) March 29, 2025