UN says Trump's team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter

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Source: Scripps News/AP

Posted 32 minutes ago and last updated 6 minutes ago


President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks at the United Nations on Tuesday to bemoan an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter, using the incidents to portray the global body as dysfunctional. “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle,” he mused, chopping the air with his hand.

But it turns out the cause was closer to Trump, according to U.N. officials.

Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop 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 statement. “The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function.”

As he began his speech, Trump also noted that the teleprompter wasn't working. He joked that whoever was running the teleprompter “is in big trouble.” A U.N. official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue contributed that one to his side as well, saying the White House was operating the teleprompter for the president.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/the-president/un-says-trumps-team-to-blame-for-nonworking-escalator-and-teleprompter

[Walleye]

1. They don't like safety mechanisms. They prefer to see these diplomats mangled.

[BComplex]

14. And since trump ONLY hires totally incompetent people, we already knew his team

had something to do with things going wrong.

[Bayard]

2. Next time he speechifies to a group of nations,

I wish they'd all throw shoes at him.

[twodogsbarking]

3. Trump incaple of ascending stairs without an escalator.

[Aristus]

4. "Non-working escalator".

If you don’t live in Bizzaro World, those are called “stairs”.

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. He was almost trapped

for hours.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. I doubt he could do more than three stairsteps

without stopping to have some flunky massage his cankles for 15 minutes.

(Gak. Can you imagine touching his festering flesh?)

[ChazInAz]

5. Could it be...

That someone in his entourage secretly dislikes him and committed a bit of sabotage?

[llmart]

9. Either way, the person will be fired as soon as the Idiot in Chief finds out who it was.

[IronLionZion]

6. Escalator-gate is a deep state conspiracy

[mwb970]

8. I'm so sick of this same pattern from this same idiot.

When when oh when will he GO AWAY??

[joshdawg]

10. He ain't dead yet.........

dammit!

[PSPS]

11. Is this the latest talk-about-this-instead-of-epstein-gate?

[Figarosmom]

12. I bet they did it on purpose so they could complain

They vidioaugrapher may have done it to get pictures of them on the escalator. Or maybe he was told to get up there and stop it.