Joy Reid Mocks Jesse Watters Over Segment on LGBT Nutcrackers for Sale: ‘How Dare Target Make the Yuletide Gay!’

MSNBC host Joy Reid mocked Fox News host Jesse Watters on Friday for airing a segment expressing outrage over gay nutcrackers and Black, disabled Santa Claus ornaments on sale at Target.

“Since just the mere words ‘diversity and inclusion’ incite a tantrum over at Fox, this year’s war on Christmas meltdown over inanimate objects, it came early, thanks to Jesse Watters.”

Reid then played a clip from Jesse Watters Primetime on Thursday, where Watters remarked:

Gay nutcracker, complete with a rainbow hat, a trans flag. Full price, $12, but right now on sale for eight. Target also sells Santa ornaments, but Target’s Santa is in a wheelchair and is Black. Gay nutcracker and wheelchair Santa might be the only items in Target that don’t get looted.

“How dare Target make the Yuletide gay?” reacted Reid. “And having Black children and kids in wheelchairs see a Santa that looks like them? What is this country coming to?”

During Watters’ segment on Thursday, guest Riley Gaines said:

You have to ask yourself, you know, why do they keep pushing this? Who are they trying to appeal to? Because despite what the media portrays or how politicians are voting, this doesn’t represent the overwhelming majority of how this country— really, how the world feels on this issue. I think the majority of people, parents especially, they can acknowledge that gay nutcracker, Black disabled Santa has gone way too far.

Watters questioned whether Target’s gay nutcracker was “sexualizing Christmas for children,” before throwing a wheelchair Santa into the live studio audience.

Watch above via MSNBC.