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Trump said he was the victim of “sabotage” after an escalator at the United Nations stopped working the moment that he and his wife Melania stepped on, forcing the President to walk up one flight of steps.
“Not one, not two, but three very sinister events” occurred at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday, Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday, also referencing an apparent issue with his teleprompter and the sound system when he spoke before the body. Footage of the escalator incident, which quickly circulated online, showed Trump looking around in confusion after the moving stairway jolted to a stop, before Melania in front of him walked up the escalator.
Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General, said that a White House videographer running backwards up the escalator ahead of Trump appeared to have “inadvertently triggered” the built-in stop safety mechanism at the top of the escalator. “The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric said in a note to correspondents.
But the global body’s assurances have not been enough to quell conspiracy theories that sprung up on social media—and that have been perpetuated by the White House—that the malfunction was a deliberate attack by U.N. staffers on Trump.
“The escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime,” Trump continued in his post. “It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first. It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster.”
“The people that did it should be arrested,” Trump added. He said the Secret Service will be looking into the incident and that he sent a letter to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres demanding an “immediate investigation.”
In addition to the escalator malfunction, Trump said the teleprompter went “stone cold dark” and that the sound was off during his speech, such that attendees could only hear his remarks through interpreters’ earpieces. “The first person I saw at the conclusion of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting right up front. I said, ‘How did I do?’ And she said, ‘I couldn’t hear a word you said,’” Trump wrote. “This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN.”
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“Not one, not two, but three very sinister events” occurred at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday, Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday, also referencing an apparent issue with his teleprompter and the sound system when he spoke before the body. Footage of the escalator incident, which quickly circulated online, showed Trump looking around in confusion after the moving stairway jolted to a stop, before Melania in front of him walked up the escalator.
Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General, said that a White House videographer running backwards up the escalator ahead of Trump appeared to have “inadvertently triggered” the built-in stop safety mechanism at the top of the escalator. “The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric said in a note to correspondents.
But the global body’s assurances have not been enough to quell conspiracy theories that sprung up on social media—and that have been perpetuated by the White House—that the malfunction was a deliberate attack by U.N. staffers on Trump.
“The escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime,” Trump continued in his post. “It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first. It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster.”
“The people that did it should be arrested,” Trump added. He said the Secret Service will be looking into the incident and that he sent a letter to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres demanding an “immediate investigation.”
In addition to the escalator malfunction, Trump said the teleprompter went “stone cold dark” and that the sound was off during his speech, such that attendees could only hear his remarks through interpreters’ earpieces. “The first person I saw at the conclusion of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting right up front. I said, ‘How did I do?’ And she said, ‘I couldn’t hear a word you said,’” Trump wrote. “This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN.”
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