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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(129,081 posts)
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:02 PM Wednesday

Republicans Melt Down Over Escalator Incident

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 wasn’t working properly to allow him to read Stephen Miller’s deranged speech: “I don’t 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

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Republicans Melt Down Over Escalator Incident (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday OP
Wasn't it an WH aide who hit some switch on the escalator and didn't WH staff run the teleprompters?? NoMoreRepugs Wednesday #1
Yeah, but we all know that nothing is Been A Dick Donald's fault, MarineCombatEngineer Wednesday #3
correct obamanut2012 Wednesday #4
I'm surprised Mz Pip Wednesday #2
I sure wouldn't want be one of the ones carrying that fat bloated POS anywhere. nt MarineCombatEngineer Wednesday #5
Not even as a pallbearer? EYESORE 9001 Wednesday #7
LOL, not even as a pall bearer, I don't think my back would survive that, MarineCombatEngineer Wednesday #8
How dare the escalator not work for our american royalty MagickMuffin Wednesday #6
Petty.................... Lovie777 Wednesday #9
wait,wait. adoring wife? thomski64 Wednesday #10
Lol i clocked that, too. Volaris Wednesday #13
This is the first video I've watched of the incident. llmart Wednesday #11
I'M HAVING A TERRIBLE DAY usonian Wednesday #12
It was either Biden or Obama's fault. Loryn Wednesday #14
All they had to do was go down Zackzzzz Wednesday #15
That would have required a modicum of intelligence and some quick decision-making. MineralMan Wednesday #16
Where was the switch flipper when he came DOWN the escalator? Frasier Balzov Wednesday #17
MaddowBlog-The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator 'controversy' LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #18
This is getting silly and the internet is responding to trump's fixation on escalators LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #19

NoMoreRepugs

(11,638 posts)
1. Wasn't it an WH aide who hit some switch on the escalator and didn't WH staff run the teleprompters??
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:06 PM
Wednesday

At least that's what I read someplace yesterday....

MarineCombatEngineer

(16,022 posts)
3. Yeah, but we all know that nothing is Been A Dick Donald's fault,
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:08 PM
Wednesday

hell, I'm kinda shocked that he didn't blame Pres. Biden for this, but the day is still young.

Mz Pip

(28,234 posts)
2. I'm surprised
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:07 PM
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I’m surprised Trump didn’t demand someone produce a gold chair and attendants to carry him into the assembly.

MarineCombatEngineer

(16,022 posts)
8. LOL, not even as a pall bearer, I don't think my back would survive that,
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:20 PM
Wednesday

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)
6. How dare the escalator not work for our american royalty
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:11 PM
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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!

thomski64

(751 posts)
10. wait,wait. adoring wife?
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:23 PM
Wednesday

Are you referring to the Slovenian sex
worker procured for him by Epstein??

Volaris

(11,067 posts)
13. Lol i clocked that, too.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:47 PM
Wednesday

IMHO, she's more ready for him to kick the bucket than we are.

llmart

(16,881 posts)
11. This is the first video I've watched of the incident.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:42 PM
Wednesday

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?

Zackzzzz

(141 posts)
15. All they had to do was go down
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:55 PM
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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)
16. That would have required a modicum of intelligence and some quick decision-making.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 03:14 PM
Wednesday

Trump has neither skill.

Frasier Balzov

(4,582 posts)
17. Where was the switch flipper when he came DOWN the escalator?
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 03:36 PM
Wednesday

Good joke. Truth. Laughed out loud at that one.

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,297 posts)
18. MaddowBlog-The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator 'controversy'
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:18 PM
Wednesday

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 ‘controversy’ 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.”

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,297 posts)
19. This is getting silly and the internet is responding to trump's fixation on escalators
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:35 PM
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I like the Onion's suggestion

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