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Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalator⦠www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T04:16:34.089Z

Turbineguy
(39,433 posts)He made the escalators run on time.
riversedge
(77,982 posts)
usonian
(20,874 posts)Going down.
Life has its ups and downs.
Ray Bruns
(5,621 posts)MLWR
(568 posts)Especially ORANGE, fat, dementia-riddled old men.
Mr.Bee
(1,255 posts)Better By Leaps And Bounds, You Hack!

ornotna
(11,368 posts)I bet he didn't even spill a drop of his coffee.
IcyPeas
(24,296 posts)Drump has to hold on with both hands.
MadameButterfly
(3,581 posts)to stop the elevator
Lulu KC
(8,266 posts)I miss him so. Imperfectly perfect.
greatauntoftriplets
(178,307 posts)And so fine to look at.
rurallib
(64,173 posts)NBachers
(18,916 posts)Johnny Noshoes
(1,997 posts)I will NEVER wear a red tie
louis-t
(24,473 posts)
LetMyPeopleVote
(170,297 posts)llmart
(16,881 posts)just to see Orange Anus Mouth take a face palm while on it.
SergeStorms
(19,785 posts)there's a weight limit on the escalators, and Trump tripped the breaker when he stepped on.
appleannie1
(5,347 posts)SergeStorms
(19,785 posts)but American machinery recognizes Euro-trash in an instant. Between the two of them, they were lucky to get to the second floor at all.
Rhiannon12866
(243,686 posts)

MadameButterfly
(3,581 posts)at the top of the escalator designed to keep people from getting caught up in the gears of the escalator. Thus stopping the escalator.
Ironically, this was the shot the Trump photographer was probably trying to take. Not that it would have compared to Obama's pic anyway, but you know they are trying.
Totally Tunsie
(11,270 posts)C Moon
(13,210 posts)Except that they will also go flat.
Biophilic
(6,098 posts)AllaN01Bear
(27,487 posts)
IcyPeas
(24,296 posts)And if it had stopped, he would've trotted up, 2 steps at a time, not spilling a drop of his coffee, and smiling the whole way.
— (@birdy123.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T15:10:18.621Z
That escalator had been broken for months, but started working as soon as Obama stepped on.
— Peter Nincompoop (@carcrashrecorder.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T19:39:56.196Z
MadameButterfly
(3,581 posts)and it certainly wouldn't have entered his speech.
fierywoman
(8,431 posts)make that one stop in order to apologize for not stopping the escalator going downward at Trump Tower when he announced his first candidacy (2015?)
Rhiannon12866
(243,686 posts)

evemac
(241 posts)Faux pas
(15,940 posts)
tulipsandroses
(7,963 posts)Democratic presidents do it better!
Skittles
(167,728 posts)
Joinfortmill
(18,994 posts)Bayard
(27,150 posts)I'm sure he never embarrassed us at the UN.
Rhiannon12866
(243,686 posts)Unlike the current thin-skinned blowhard...