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 p

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