Fox & Friends slams the U.N. as an 'anti-American, anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic cesspool'

Pete Hegseth of Fox and Friends.
(Image credit: Screenshot/Media Matters)

"God bless Nikki Haley," Fox host Pete Hegseth said Friday morning on Fox & Friends, just a day after the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to declare the U.S.'s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital "null and void." Before the vote, Haley, the American ambassador to the U.N., had threatened to cut America's U.N. funding should member countries vote against President Trump's Jerusalem decision.

In fact, 128 member countries did vote to rebuke Trump's decision — a move Hegseth found utterly appalling. "It's a demonstration of what the U.N. has become," he railed, "which is nothing but [an] anti-American, anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic cesspool."

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up
To continue reading this article...
Continue reading this article and get limited website access each month.
Get unlimited website access, exclusive newsletters plus much more.
Cancel or pause at any time.
Already a subscriber to The Week?
Not sure which email you used for your subscription? Contact us
Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.