Watters blasts Gwen Berry's anti-anthem activism: 'Why would you want to represent a 'racist' country?'

Fox News host Jesse Watters and the panel on "The Five" reacted to U.S. athletic hammer-thrower Gwendolyn Berry intentionally snubbing the national anthem while standing on the third-place podium riser during the Olympic trials.

Berry turned her back when the anthem played then covered her head with a tee shirt reading "activist athlete." After blowback from her stance, Berry responded by saying, "the anthem doesn't speak for me. It never has." Furthermore, she claimed she was "set-up" because the anthem was played when she and her U.S. Olympic colleagues took the podium as opposed to at another time during the event.  Watters said the White House tried to play "both sides" of the controversy, when Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday that President Biden has "great respect for the anthem and all it represents," but he recognizes the U.S. "ha[s]n't lived up to our highest ideals and it means respecting the right … to peacefully protest."