UN says Fox News host apologized after calling for world body to be bombed

[douglas9]

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The United Nations was shocked, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Friday, when a Fox News host called for the world body to be bombed over U.S. President Donald Trump's difficulties with an escalator and a teleprompter.

Jesse Watters had privately apologized to U.N. global communications chief Melissa Fleming after the United Nations contacted Fox News about the remarks he made in a Tuesday broadcast, Dujarric said.

Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"There is nothing funny or ironic in calling for the bombing, the gassing, the destruction of this building," Dujarric told reporters on Friday. "That kind of language is unacceptable."

"We know painfully the reality of what happens when threats are made against the U.N. We lost friends in Baghdad. I personally walked through the rubble of the building in Algiers where the U.N. was bombed, our colleagues in Abuja were also bombed," he said.

Watters made the remarks while discussing Trump's address to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. Trump complained about an elevator that had stopped shortly after he stepped onto it and a teleprompter that did not work.

"What we need to do is either leave the U.N. or we need to bomb it," Watters said. "Maybe gas it ... we need to destroy it."


https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/un-says-fox-news-host-apologized-after-calling-world-body-be-bombed-2025-09-26/

[DFW]

1. Of course, if some UN official had made the same recommendation for Fox "News"

There would have been non-stop screaming on their broadcasts for that UN official to have been fired, fined, jailed, designated a terrorist and banned for life from ever entering the United States ever again.

[Conjuay]

2. Jesse Watters has to go.

No more apologies, no more of his threats where he follows up by saying, "Opps! sorry"
and goes on to commit another act of verbal terrorism.

THIS MUST END NOW.

[Celerity]

9. Agree. He is probably the worst POS on Fox of them all, and there are so many POS there to compare it's mind boggling.

[GreenWave]

10. Most likely being a POS is top qualifier to work there.

[Lovie777]

3. But the violent rhetoric is there.............

that's what RW media does, fueling hatred, violence, death threats.

Who is the terrorists? THEM.

[AZJonnie]

4. Jesse Watters obviously REEEEEALLY wants an invitation into the fascist regime like Pete got

He couldn't possibly be interviewing for a job more blatantly

[Chasstev365]

5. IF he apologized

I'm sure he did it with that ever lasting smirk that I would like to wipe off his face.

[Doodley]

6. He is slime.

[Paladin]

7. Yes, he is. And he still has a job at Fox. (nt)

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. Watters can apologize all he wants, but we all know he meant it

otherwise he wouldn't have said it.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Those violent left wing radicals at Faux.