When describing the members of President Donald Trump’s “crew of guys,” Fox News host Jesse Watters described Secretary of State Marco Rubio as being “like your Mexican friend that works a lot, but is really funny.”

Rubio, 54, who was born in Florida, is the son of Cuban—not Mexican—immigrants who came to the U.S. in the 1950s.

Watters made the ill-informed comment while describing Trump’s Cabinet, calling them a “crew” and running through various members and the archetypal roles they occupy. The analogy was inspired by a story of would-be Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. having to eat a Big Mac aboard Trump’s aircraft shortly after the 2024 election, a food he later compared to poison.

“I like how he tried to make Bobby eat the Big Mac. You always have that friend that you like,

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