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The escalator escalation keeps escalating.
He is now calling for an investigation into what he has described as a «triple sabotage,» even demanding that those responsible be arrested.
A REAL DISGRACE
-Donald Trump
The president voiced his frustrations in a lengthy post on Truth Social, describing his experience at the UN headquarters as «A REAL DISGRACE.»
While he had already pointed to two specific incidents, the escalator and the teleprompter, Trump added a third, declaring: «A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but three very sinister events!»
A screeching halt
In his post, the president recounted the events beginning with his arrival at the UN building, where he was supposed to take an escalator to reach the hall for his speech. He claimed the escalator «came to a screeching halt,» adding that it was remarkable the First Lady and he were not injured and that they didn’t fall forward, face first, onto the sharp edges of the steel steps.
«Wow, first the escalator event, and now a bad teleprompter. What kind of a place is this?»
Trump demanded that «the people that did it should be arrested,» citing a newspaper article that described the incident as «absolutely sabotage.» He added that, according to rumors, UN workers had even «joked about turning off an escalator.»
Trump then turned to a second incident, which he claimed was deliberate, saying that «before a television audience of millions around the world, and with important leaders in the hall, my teleprompter didn’t work.»
The president said the teleprompter suddenly went «stone cold dark,» adding that, at that moment, he realized something unusual was happening: «Wow, first the escalator event, and now a bad teleprompter. What kind of a place is this?»
«This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN.»
Fantastic reviews?
He insisted the moment had been salvaged only because his speech had received «fantastic reviews,» calling it an achievement that «very few people could have done» to speak for 15 minutes without a teleprompter.
He added that when he later asked the First Lady if she had enjoyed his speech, she told him she «couldn’t hear a thing.»
«This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN,» he added in his post.
Saying that he was sending a copy of this letter to the Secretary General to demand an immediate investigation, Trump shamed the UN, declaring: «They ought to be ashamed of themselves. No wonder the United Nations hasn’t been able to do the job it was created to do.»
Big trouble
It is worth recalling that in the very first moments of his speech, Donald Trump opened his address at the United Nations by mocking the institution itself. Right from the start, he referred to his mishaps and told delegates that the two things he had received from the UN were «a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.»
He recounted how the escalator stalled midway as he entered the building and complained that his teleprompter failed at the start of his remarks, warning that another malfunction could cause «serious problems» and even threatening the operator with «big trouble.» The comments drew a mix of laughter and uneasy silence from the hall.
He then turned to immigration, boasting of his hardline policies and declaring it was time to end what he called the «open borders experiment.» Trump also launched a lengthy attack on climate policies, branding global warming a «hoax» and a «scam made by stupid people.» Mocking environmentalists, he quipped, «No more cows, we don’t want cows anymore. I guess they want to kill all the cows.»
The former president praised America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and lauded «clean, beautiful coal» as central to his vision of energy policy.
Trump is demanding an investigation following what he described as a “triple sabotage” during his UNGA visit, taking to social media to claim that a series of technical mishaps, involving a stopped escalator, a teleprompter failure and audio issues, were deliberate acts meant to undermine him.
