Big Questions About Those Escalator and
Teleprompter Failures During Trump's UN Speech
RedState,
by
Nick Arama
Original Article
Posted By: JoElla Bee,
9/23/2025 7:56:14 PM
As we reported, President Donald Trump gave an address at the UN on Tuesday. But there were some issues before he even began the speech. The escalator stopped running abruptly the minute he stepped on it, forcing him and First Lady Melania Trump to walk up it. [Tweet] He said if the First Lady wasn't in great shape, she might have fallen. He joked he was in great shape as well — they both stood. Then, as he began his speech, he let people know the teleprompter didn't work [snip] microphones, "which were audible for the previous speaker, were not amplifying sound at the same level when Trump started speaking.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/23/2025 8:02:11 PM (No. 2008009)
Once again, nice try, Putie.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jackdalton 9/23/2025 8:16:32 PM (No. 2008014)
Not another penny to the UN!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/23/2025 8:17:30 PM (No. 2008015)
Wouldn't it be odd if there started to be random power, internet, and environmental failures at the UN? Maybe some water supply and septic problems? Maybe if the UN reps had to stew in their own sewage for a few days, they might start to realize how we feel about them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
thefield 9/23/2025 8:31:40 PM (No. 2008019)
did it work after he got to the top?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
3XALADY 9/23/2025 8:38:34 PM (No. 2008025)
What did Putie have to do with it?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 9/23/2025 9:11:35 PM (No. 2008032)
Sabotage.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mariboo72 9/23/2025 9:13:21 PM (No. 2008033)
Do they have a bunch of teenagers working there?
Hope they find out who did it and fire them, but it's the U.N. It will probably be rewarded. They all hate Trump. Time to relocate it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
laurenc 9/23/2025 9:15:29 PM (No. 2008034)
Very tired of hearing about the total lack of respect that the USA has to endure by the UN, and nothing ever happening to teach them a HUGE $$$ lesson. I think most Americans are sick of the UN, but realize we're probably stuck with them until ( fill in the blank ).
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
0658 9/23/2025 10:03:46 PM (No. 2008042)
Immediately reducing our payments by 10 billion or so would send a message. Better yet, zeroing it out unless they moved to Brussles or Geneva would be even better.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/23/2025 10:27:23 PM (No. 2008051)
The UN pretends they are broke, after Trump cut $1 billion of funding --- but the UN had $380 million to spend on helping illegals invade the USA.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/23/2025 10:33:52 PM (No. 2008052)
Just coincidence i am sure LOL
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/23/2025 11:00:04 PM (No. 2008057)
Yeah, sabotage. The UN is full of globalistas. They want to bring down America one way or another. How many of America's problems originated outside of America? The UN is full of flunkies. Who are they taking orders from?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
planetgeo 9/23/2025 11:48:55 PM (No. 2008062)
Well, yes, coincidences happen. So they shouldn't be surprised if the UN suddenly had an air conditioning problem, or no water. Or, goodness, no paychecks. Those would be unfortunate coincidences too
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 9/24/2025 6:04:20 AM (No. 2008096)
They stopped the elevator to make him trip and look like Biden.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mifla 9/24/2025 7:02:41 AM (No. 2008119)
Petty nonsense.
That being said, it is the most that the UN has accomplished since the Korean War.
A request to any NY cops out there who support Trump -time to start towing away UN vehicles that double park in the city. Have them towed to a lot out on Long Island.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Namma 9/24/2025 7:31:10 AM (No. 2008145)
Obviously the building is in need of repairs. Uh huh. So the joint should be shut down. And the building condemned. Send everyone back to their respective country. Have the owners of the land(I m not positive, but I think it’s the Rockefellers), tear down the building. At their own expense.
Rebuild the UN in another country.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/24/2025 7:36:41 AM (No. 2008149)
We are lucky it was restricted to just a prank. It could easily have been worse. We must also balance this with the dirty tricks (sometimes fatal) that the CIA rogues play abroad.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 9/24/2025 7:56:07 AM (No. 2008156)
I have had to stop an elevator for an emergency. Fortunately, I knew how to, because the switch was tucked away in a place where inadvertent trips could not happen
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/24/2025 8:11:00 AM (No. 2008162)
"You walk on terrazzo. Do you notice that?" is a great statement by PDJT. The UN ought to be defunded and relocated elsewhere--maybe in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso, west Africa).
FTA:
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This reminds me of an American trying to navigate the airport in Paris. They will send you the wrong way just for their own amusement.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 9/24/2025 9:21:10 AM (No. 2008199)
#19 I have a better idea. Relocate them in Gaza.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
walcb 9/24/2025 10:03:51 AM (No. 2008225)
How often does an escalator shut down? I've never seen it happen, it is dangerous if someone is on it and not holding the handrails. What are the odds of it happening exactly when the Trumps are ready to step on? It was not an accident that this happened.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
paral04 9/24/2025 10:04:29 AM (No. 2008227)
That was a deliberate attack on not only our President and First Lady but on the citizens of our country. It is total disrespect and whoever is in charge of maintenance there needs to do some serious explaining. The taxpayers of our country pay in too much money to the people running that building for any of this to ever happen. We need to rub an audit on that place.
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Predictable that some sort of sabotage would happen. Just thankful that neither of them fell, or were hurt.