A Fox News host has called for the United Nations to be attacked after an elevator mishap with the President.
Jesse Watters went on primetime television and suggested the broken elevator could be ‘sabotage’, adding ‘Daddy’s not happy.’
He cited a report in the Times which said: ‘To mark Trump’s arrival, UN Staff members joked they may turn off the escalators and elevators… so he has to walk up the stairs.’
‘This is an insurrection,’ Watters said on prime time television.
‘What we need to do is either leave the UN,’ he said, before turning and looking directly into the camera. ‘Or we need to bomb it. It is in New York, though. There might be some fallout.’
The extreme response came after Trump appeared to joke about the situation in his UN speech, saying: ‘These are the two things I got from the United Nations – a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
He laughed: ‘If the first lady weren’t in great shape, she would have fallen. We’re both in great shape.’
But the White House has since demanded an investigation into the broken elevators, as Watters claimed they could have ‘hurt the most beautiful First Lady in American history’.
A person familiar with the situation later told The Daily Beast that the elevator mishap occurred because someone accidentally clicked the emergency stop.
It’s the latest instance of controversial statements made on the popular news network. Last week, a Fox News host said mentally ill homeless people should be ‘killed’.
Brian Kilmeade was forced to apologise for what he described as an ‘extremely callous remark’ during a segment about the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The assault, in which the the 23-year-old was stabbed to death, prompted a widespread debate over crime in America.
After Decarlos Brown Jr was arrested and charged with first-degree murder over the attack, Kilmeade said: ‘[Give them] an involuntary lethal injection – or something. Just kill them.’
He made that comment during a discussion with fellow anchors Lawrence Jones and Ainsley Earhardt.
Jones said: ‘A lot of them [mentally ill homeless people] do not want to take the programmes.
‘A lot of them do not want to get the help that is necessary.
‘You cannot give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we are gonna give you, or you decide that you are going to be locked up in jail.
‘That is the way it has to be now.’
In response, Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia wrote on X: ‘America’s homeless population includes over a million children and tens of thousands of veterans, many of whom served in Iraq or Afghanistan.’
He continued: ‘Nobody deserves to be murdered by the government for mental illness or poverty. These Fox hosts are calling for mass murder – it is sick.’
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