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malaise

(289,501 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:31 PM Tuesday

Oops! UN official reveals who is 'responsible' for Donald Trump's escalator malfunction

https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/un-official-reveals-who-responsible-35954343
According to reporting from Associated Press U.N. Correspondent Farnoush Amiri, one of Trump's aides from the president's group ran ahead of him on the escalator and accidentally tripped the emergency stop mechanism.

"A U.N. official said the UN understands that someone from the president’s party who ran ahead of him inadvertently triggered the stop mechanism on the escalator. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the White House was operating the teleprompter for Trump," Amiri wrote on X.

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Oops! UN official reveals who is 'responsible' for Donald Trump's escalator malfunction (Original Post) malaise Tuesday OP

He took one for the team dweller Tuesday #1

ROFL malaise Tuesday #2

Imagine the speech he wanted to give! Johonny Tuesday #3

lolol bigtree Tuesday #4

What a clown show malaise Tuesday #6

Sounds about as likely as any of Trump's tall tales. Disaffected Tuesday #5

Karoline Leavitt says fire them if deliberate BeneteauBum Tuesday #7

Incompetence is strong in this administration surfered Tuesday #8

Can't wait for Lawrence malaise Tuesday #11

Me, too! surfered Tuesday #13

Every day a new record is being set for how many clowns a car can hold ;) n/t Cheezoholic Tuesday #9

It's a very large car to hold so many surfered Tuesday #12

Unemployment just went up by one Attilatheblond Tuesday #10

MaddowBlog-The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator 'controversy' LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #14

So typical malaise Wednesday #15

This is getting silly and the internet is responding to trump's fixation on escalators LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #16

Bwaaaah😂 malaise Thursday #17

dweller

(27,201 posts)

1. He took one for the team

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:34 PM

Tuesday

Otherwise they would have to report the Pisswig set off the overload sensors …
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malaise

(289,501 posts)

2. ROFL

Reply to dweller (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:35 PM

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😂😂

Johonny

(24,775 posts)

3. Imagine the speech he wanted to give!

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:36 PM

Tuesday

bigtree

(92,666 posts)

4. lolol

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:36 PM

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malaise

(289,501 posts)

6. What a clown show

Reply to bigtree (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:39 PM

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😂

Disaffected

(5,920 posts)

5. Sounds about as likely as any of Trump's tall tales.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:38 PM

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How the hell would you "inadvertently" trip the stop mechanism?? And, just as the fat man stepped onto the escalator...

BeneteauBum

(223 posts)

7. Karoline Leavitt says fire them if deliberate

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:40 PM

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OK. Apparently, one of the orange racist’s staff leading the way deactivated the escalator power.
Peace ☮️

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-united-nations-escalator-white-house-firing-rcna233297

surfered

(9,428 posts)

8. Incompetence is strong in this administration

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:42 PM

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malaise

(289,501 posts)

11. Can't wait for Lawrence

Reply to surfered (Reply #8)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:43 PM

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😀

surfered

(9,428 posts)

13. Me, too!

Reply to malaise (Reply #11)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:47 PM

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Cheezoholic

(3,315 posts)

9. Every day a new record is being set for how many clowns a car can hold ;) n/t

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:42 PM

Tuesday

surfered

(9,428 posts)

12. It's a very large car to hold so many

Reply to Cheezoholic (Reply #9)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:43 PM

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Attilatheblond

(7,336 posts)

10. Unemployment just went up by one

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:43 PM

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Pretty sure Kash Patel is breathing easier.

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,297 posts)

14. MaddowBlog-The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator 'controversy'

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:24 PM

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Some Republicans suggested the U.N. had targeted Donald Trump with an escalator malfunction. Evidently, the truth was more benign.

The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator â€˜controversyâ€™ www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Margie (@paeznyc.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T21:18:52.855Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rapid-rise-sudden-fall-united-nation-escalator-controversy-rcna233450

During his ridiculous address to the U.N. General Assembly, Donald Trump covered quite a bit of ground, but his speech included a curious reference to, of all things, an escalator......

Evidently, the truth was more benign. NBC News reported:

The United Nations has concluded its one-day investigation into the mysterious halting of President Donald Trump’s escalator Tuesday as he arrived at the U.N. General Assembly. The accidental culprit? A White House videographer who most likely tripped a safety mechanism.

A U.N. spokesperson explained: “The escalator had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered 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. The [White House] videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function described above.”.....

All of this, of course, came before the public learned that it was a White House videographer that apparently triggered the escalator’s safety measures.

Kevin Kruse, a historian at Princeton University, noted soon after: “This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism — because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up.”