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After spending the past week demanding the firing, arrest and prosecution of every Democrat who failed to sufficiently mourn right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk, MAGA blood is up again calling for officials at the UN to be imprisoned for an alleged escalator prank.
When Trump and his adoring wife Melania arrived at the UN to give the single most embarrassing speech ever made by an American president to the General Assembly, they stepped on to the escalator only to have it stop working. Melania gave Trump one of her famous looks of disgust as they stood there for several seconds. She finally just walked up the stairs and a few seconds later Trump lumbered up clearly annoyed.
As he began the speech, Trump complained that the teleprompter wasnt working properly to allow him to read Stephen Millers deranged speech: I dont mind making this speech without a teleprompter. Because the teleprompter is not working. I can only say that whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.
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What really got things going was a subsequent post by press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said this: If 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.
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/republicans-melt-down-over-escalator

NoMoreRepugs
(11,638 posts)At least that's what I read someplace yesterday....
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,022 posts)hell, I'm kinda shocked that he didn't blame Pres. Biden for this, but the day is still young.
obamanut2012
(28,843 posts)Mz Pip
(28,234 posts)Im surprised Trump didnt demand someone produce a gold chair and attendants to carry him into the assembly.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,022 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,074 posts)Id still turn it down.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,022 posts)but I would like to piss on his grave.
I can imagine even the worms don't want anything to do with that fat bloated body.
MagickMuffin
(17,925 posts)I read yesterday it was his own people who were in charge of the escalator and the teleprompter.
I have a feelin' the teleprompter wasn't working because he wanted to air his vile bs on the international stage. His ego cannot maintain this level of his own idolatry. Somethin' gonna pop!
Lovie777
(20,476 posts)thomski64
(751 posts)Are you referring to the Slovenian sex
worker procured for him by Epstein??
Volaris
(11,067 posts)IMHO, she's more ready for him to kick the bucket than we are.
llmart
(16,881 posts)Two thoughts - he just had to say, "If the First Lady wasn't in such great shape she could have fallen". Yeah, like that was foremost in his pee brain. I'm surprised he didn't push her to get ahead of her.
Then when he started to walk up (she had to show him that that was an option) he had to hold onto both railings. Hey, media. He's OLD and out of shape and shouldn't be in office. Right? Can we have 24/7 coverage of his senility and all that you got orgasmic about when reporting on Biden?
usonian
(20,874 posts)
Loryn
(1,034 posts)THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Zackzzzz
(141 posts)2-3 steps and go to the one
that was moving on the right.
There were 2 escalators side by side
They were both going up.
MineralMan
(149,821 posts)Trump has neither skill.
Frasier Balzov
(4,582 posts)Good joke. Truth. Laughed out loud at that one.
LetMyPeopleVote
(170,297 posts)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 âcontroversyâ 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
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 Trumps 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 escalators 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.