Overview

• On Fox News’ The Five, Watters labeled the UN escalator stoppage and a teleprompter failure as “sabotage” and called it “an insurrection.”
• He asserted the United States should either leave the United Nations or “bomb it,” then floated “gas it,” “demolish the building,” and replacing it with luxury condos.
• Co-hosts visibly winced and urged him not to advocate such actions as he continued the bit on air.
• The incidents occurred as President Trump and the First Lady stepped onto a UN escalator that halted and before a speech where the teleprompter malfunctioned, which Trump later joked about.
• The White House vowed to find who was responsible, while a UN spokesperson suggested an emergency stop may have been triggered by the entourage and an anonymous source told The Daily Beast it was an accidental activation.