JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): My mother has already texted me, fresh off the press, a preemptive text. “His tweets are racist and incendiary. Please don't equivocate about that. You are already being criticized for having told the women's soccer team to 'shut their traps.' Be ethical Jesse, and don't argue for the sake of jackass remarks.”

DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): Oh wow, mom.

WATTERS: Wow.

PERINO: Mom.

WATTERS: Mom's not going to scare me off though, these were not racist, this was about patriotism. When did “love it or leave it” become racist?

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Yeah.

WATTERS: And not only leave it but come back and help us fix our problems. This country is so sensitive now.

Previously:

Fox co-host defends Trump's racist tweets: “He didn't say go there permanently”

Fox & Friends praises Trump's bigoted tweet telling Democratic congresswomen to leave the United States

Fox guest complains that “the president makes a comment and somehow he becomes ... xenophobic and racist”

Sean Hannity defends Trump's racist tweets by criticizing Somalia's “vicious” laws