{"id":2883,"date":"2025-10-09T19:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:37:59","slug":"trump-demands-investigation-after-escalator-teleprompter-malfunctions-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=2883","title":{"rendered":"Trump Demands Investigation After Escalator, Teleprompter Malfunctions at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump experienced an unexpected mishap at the United Nations on Tuesday when an escalator carrying them suddenly stopped, forcing the couple to walk up the stalled machine before Trump\u2019s scheduled address to world leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident, which occurred just before 10 a.m. at UN headquarters in New York City, prompted White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to call for an immediate investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately,\u201d Leavitt wrote on X, citing a report from The Times of London that UN staffers had previously joked about cutting off access to escalators and elevators for Trump\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an appearance later that evening on Fox News\u2019s Jesse Watters Primetime, Leavitt suggested the malfunction \u201cappears\u201d to be sabotage, pointing to reports that some UN employees had mocked Trump\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Read :<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=2863\"> JUST IN: National Guard Arrives In Illinois After Governor \u2018Declares War\u2019 On Trump<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we find that these were UN staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up, literally trip up the president and the first lady of the United States, well there better be accountability,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Secret Service is also reviewing the matter, according to Leavitt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United Nations officials, however, quickly dismissed speculation of intentional wrongdoing. St\u00e9phane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told reporters the stoppage was caused by a safety feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calls for investigation after a UN escalator shut off as President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped on.<br><br>According to The Times, UN staff members had previously &quot;joked&quot; about turning off the escalator.<br><br>&quot;To mark Trump\u2019s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UE1AFdCn2R\">pic.twitter.com\/UE1AFdCn2R<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1970596708322287914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 NEW: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says OBAMA\u2019S FBI &amp; CIA directors committed \u201ccorruption at the highest level\u201d and promises the \u201cTRUTH\u201d will come out. \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gHGIARVj5E\">pic.twitter.com\/gHGIARVj5E<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseBWatters\/status\/1942744543671050516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Dujarric, a videographer from the U.S. delegation had stepped onto the escalator ahead of the Trumps while walking backwards to film their arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the videographer reached the top, the movement triggered a built-in safety mechanism designed to prevent objects or people from becoming caught in the machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur technician, who was at the location, reset the escalator as soon as the delegation had climbed up to the second floor,\u201d Dujarric said. \u201cA subsequent investigation, including a readout of the machine\u2019s central processing unit, indicated that the escalator had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that the malfunction was mechanical, not deliberate, and that there was \u201cnothing nefarious\u201d behind the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump himself addressed the mishap during his speech before the 80th United Nations General Assembly, weaving it into a lighthearted jab at the institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 LMAO! President Trump on the UN: \u201cThe teleprompter was broken and the escalator came to a sudden hault as we were ridding up to the podium, but both of those events probably made the speech more interesting than it would have been otherwise. It is always an honor to speak at\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YUb3yn6vHp\">pic.twitter.com\/YUb3yn6vHp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1970514182790418684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle,\u201d Trump said, drawing laughter. He quipped that the situation might have been dangerous if the first lady \u201cwasn\u2019t in great shape.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president also improvised when his teleprompter froze early in the address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel very happy to be up here with you, nevertheless \u2014 and that way you speak more from the heart \u2014 I can only say that whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble,\u201d he joked, again earning laughs from the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teleprompter resumed functioning minutes later. The incident comes amid already strained relations between the Trump administration and the UN. Trump has frequently criticized the organization as ineffective and accused it of creating \u201cnew problems\u201d rather than solving global conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his Tuesday address, Trump reiterated those criticisms, contrasting his administration\u2019s record on foreign policy with what he described as a lack of assistance from the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of these countries and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump experienced an unexpected mishap at the United Nations on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}