US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was the victim of “three very sinister events” during his time at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
The secret service will investigate the problems, including an escalator that suddenly stopped and a defective teleprompter, Trump wrote in a message about truth social.
“First came the escalator that went to the main floor, to a stop. It stopped a cent. It is amazing that Melania and I did not fall forward on the sharp edges of these steel stairs, the face first,” Trump wrote.
“It was only that we held the handrail firmly or it would have been a disaster. This was absolutely sabotage, as noted by a day of the earlier ‘post’ in the London Times that UN employees made jokes about eliminating an escalator.” The people who did it have to be arrested. “
But it turns out that the escalator came to a halt with Trump and his entourage was due to his own team, said a UN representative.
Spokesperson of the UN Stephane Dujarric said in a statement That a videographer from the American delegation that ran for Trump caused the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.
“The security mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects from being accidentally caught and jammed or pulled into acceleration,” said Dujarric in a statement. “The videographer may have unintentionally activated the safety function.”
President Donald Trump, Center, and his wife, Melania Trump, top right, walk up the escalator after he got stuck when he rode to the general meeting Hall, Tuesday 23 September 2025, at the UN headquarters.
AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah
Later in his position on Truth Social, Trump noted that the Teleprompter did not work when he started his speech at the UN headquarters.
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“When I was standing in front of a television -millions of people around the world, and important leaders in the hall, my teleprompter did not work,” Trump wrote. “It was stones cold dark. I immediately thought:” Wow, first the escalator event, and now a bad teleprompter. What kind of place is this? “
He said he would continue to hold his speech without a teleprompter until it “started about 15 minutes later.”
“The good news is that the speech received fantastic assessments. Maybe they appreciated the fact that very few people could have done what I did,” Trump said.
A UN official, speak by condition from anonymity to The corresponding press Because of the sensitivity of the issue, the Teleprompter problem also attributed to Trump and said the White House operated the teleprompter for the president.
Trump also claimed that the sound in the auditorium was switched off while he spoke and that people could only hear his comments if they had interpreters that spoke in ears.
“The first person I saw at the end of the speech was Melania, who was in front. I said, ‘How did I do it? “And she said,” I couldn’t hear a word you said. ” This was no coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN, “Trump wrote.
He said that the UN “is ashamed of himself” and he plans to send a copy of his social post to the Secretary General, and demanded “an immediate investigation”.
“No wonder the United Nations were unable to do the work they have done.
Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, took to x To tackle the escalator in the UN in which Trump is involved.
“If someone at the UN deliberately stopped the escalator while the president and first lady stepped up, they must be fired and immediately investigated,” she wrote.
While he on Fox News, Leavitt suggested that UN employees may have tried to stumble ‘deliberately’ by stopping the escalator.
“If you put all this together, it doesn’t seem like a coincidence to me,” said Jesse Waters to host.
“I know we have people, including the secret service of the United States, who investigate this to try to find out,” Leavitt said. “And if we discover that these were UN staff employees who deliberately tried to stumble – literally stumble – the president and the First Lady of the United States, well, there may be better responsibility for those people, and I will see it personally.”
– With files of the corresponding press
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