Fox News‘ Jesse Watters is facing substantial criticism for his comments on-air.
The 47-year-old news anchor shocked viewers during an episode of The Five on Tuesday (September 23).
Keep reading to find out more…
During the appearance, Jesse addressed various issues encountered by President Donald Trump while attending the General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters this week in New York City.
At one point, Trump‘s teleprompter cut out during a speech. At another point, an escalator froze while he and First Lady Melania Trump were going upstairs, which required them to walk up the remaining steps.
Jesse then claimed that U.N. staffers “sabotaged” the escalator and the teleprompter during his appearance.
“Wat we need to do is either leave the U.N. or we need to bomb it,” he went on to say.
Fox News host Jesse Watters suggested bombing and gassing the United Nations over escalator and teleprompter issues pic.twitter.com/uvJImMG17w
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) September 23, 2025
“[The U.N. headquarters] is in New York, though, right? Could be some fallout there. Maybe gas it?” he continued, as the co-hosts laughed.
“Let’s not do that,” Dana Perino finally said.
“Don’t gas it. Okay, but we need to destroy it. Maybe can we demolish the building? Have everybody leave and then we’ll demolish the building,” Jesse continued.
He, Dana and co-host Greg Gutfeld also joked about turning the building into “affordable housing.”
“No, this is absolutely unacceptable, and I hope they get to the bottom of it, and I hope they really injure, emotionally, the people that did it,” Jesse concluded, resulting in intense social media backlash and calls for his firing and for an FCC investigation, considering what just happened to Jimmy Kimmel amid his Charlie Kirk comment controversy.
Surely the @FCC will look into this, yea? https://t.co/NWFRN4S4oD
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 23, 2025
Brian Kilmeade: Let’s just kill the homeless.
Jesse Watters: An escalator stopped working so let’s bomb the UN.
Fox News hosts are deeply unwell and unprofessional people, and so are the executives who allow them to get away these disturbing rants.
— Zappit (@Zapdraws) September 24, 2025
Jesse Watters must be suspended. https://t.co/isMcOcvSRC
— PLGC (@PL67712441) September 23, 2025
Fire Jesse Watters.
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
— 👼😇 Jana B Warrior Angel 👼😇 (@Janabw81) September 24, 2025
Jesse Watters wants us to bomb New York City? 🧐 https://t.co/qXoxuLH74G
— Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (@malcolmkenyatta) September 23, 2025
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Source: justjared.com