(25 Sep 2025)
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New York – 25 September 2025
1. Various, workers inspecting escalator at entrance to United Nations
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Workers at the United Nations were inspecting an escalator that shut down on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stepped onto it.
During his address to the General Assembly, Trump broke from his prepared remarks to bemoan the escalator as well as a defective teleprompter.
“These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,” Trump poked, eliciting laughs from delegates and leaders.
Stéphane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesperson, said the escalator’s abrupt stop happened after a videographer who accompanied the U.S. delegation may have inadvertently triggered a built-in safety mechanism.
A U.N. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue said the White House was operating the teleprompter for the president.
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