U.S. President Donald Trump stated Wednesday that he was the sufferer of “three very sinister occasions” throughout his time on the United Nations Common Meeting on Tuesday.
The Secret Service can be wanting into the problems, which included an escalator that out of the blue stopped and a faulty teleprompter, Trump wrote in a put up on Reality Social.
“First, the escalator going as much as the Foremost Talking Flooring got here to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime. It’s wonderful that Melania and I didn’t fall ahead onto the sharp edges of those metal steps, face first,” Trump wrote.
“It was solely that we have been every holding the handrail tightly or, it will have been a catastrophe. This was completely sabotage, as famous by a day’s earlier ‘put up’ in The London Occasions that stated UN employees ‘joked about turning off an escalator.’ The those that did it ought to be arrested.”
But it surely seems the escalator coming to a halt with Trump and his entourage on it was as a consequence of his personal workforce, stated a UN consultant.
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric stated in an announcement {that a} videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran forward of Trump triggered the cease mechanism on the prime of the escalator.
“The security mechanism is designed to forestall individuals or objects by accident being caught and caught in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric stated in an announcement. “The videographer might have inadvertently triggered the protection operate.”
President Donald Trump, centre, and his spouse, Melania Trump, higher proper, stroll up the escalator after it stalled as he rode as much as the Common Meeting Corridor, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, at UN headquarters.
AP Photograph/Stefan Jeremiah
Later in his put up on Reality Social, Trump famous that the teleprompter wasn’t working when he started his speech on the UN headquarters.
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“Then, as I stood earlier than a Tv crowd of hundreds of thousands of individuals all around the World, and necessary Leaders within the Corridor, my teleprompter didn’t work,” Trump wrote. “It was stone chilly darkish. I instantly thought to myself, ‘Wow, first the escalator occasion, and now a nasty teleprompter. What sort of a spot is that this?’”
He stated he proceeded to make his speech with out a teleprompter till it “kicked in about quarter-hour later.”
“The excellent news is the Speech has gotten incredible critiques. Possibly they appreciated the truth that only a few individuals may have accomplished what I did,” Trump stated.
A UN official, talking on situation of anonymity to The Related Press due to the sensitivity of the problem, attributed the teleprompter subject to Trump’s facet as effectively, saying the White Home was working the teleprompter for the president.
Trump additionally claimed that the sound was off within the auditorium as he spoke and that individuals may solely hear his remarks if that they had interpreters talking into earpieces.
“The primary individual I noticed on the conclusion of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting proper up entrance. I stated, ‘How did I do?’ And he or she stated, ‘I couldn’t hear a phrase you stated.’ This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage on the UN,” Trump wrote.
He stated the UN “must be ashamed of themselves” and he plans to ship a replica of his Reality Social put up to the secretary-general, demanding “a right away investigation.”
“No surprise the United Nations hasn’t been in a position to do the job that they have been put in existence to do. All safety tapes on the escalator ought to be saved, particularly the emergency cease button. The Secret Service is concerned. Thanks in your consideration to this matter,” his put up concluded.
Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, took to X to handle the escalator incident on the UN involving Trump.
“If somebody on the UN deliberately stopped the escalator because the President and First Girl have been stepping on, they must be fired and investigated instantly,” she wrote.
Whereas on Fox Information, Leavitt prompt that UN staffers might have “purposely” tried to journey Trump by halting the escalator.
“While you put all of this collectively, it doesn’t appear like a coincidence to me,” she stated to host Jesse Watters.
“I do know that we have now individuals, together with the US Secret Service, who’re wanting into this to attempt to resolve it,” Leavitt stated. “And if we discover that these have been UN staffers who have been purposely making an attempt to journey up — actually journey up — the president and the primary woman of the US, effectively, there higher be accountability for these individuals, and I’ll personally see to it.”
— With information from The Related Press
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