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Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalator⦠www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T04:16:34.089Z

Turbineguy
(39,449 posts)He made the escalators run on time.
riversedge
(78,041 posts)
usonian
(21,018 posts)Going down.
Life has its ups and downs.
Ray Bruns
(5,631 posts)MLWR
(574 posts)Especially ORANGE, fat, dementia-riddled old men.
Better By Leaps And Bounds, You Hack!

ornotna
(11,369 posts)I bet he didn't even spill a drop of his coffee.
IcyPeas
(24,314 posts)Drump has to hold on with both hands.
MadameButterfly
(3,591 posts)to stop the elevator
Lulu KC
(8,274 posts)I miss him so. Imperfectly perfect.
greatauntoftriplets
(178,317 posts)And so fine to look at.
rurallib
(64,180 posts)NBachers
(18,923 posts)Johnny Noshoes
(1,998 posts)I will NEVER wear a red tie
louis-t
(24,476 posts)
LetMyPeopleVote
(170,526 posts)llmart
(16,905 posts)just to see Orange Anus Mouth take a face palm while on it.
SergeStorms
(19,789 posts)there's a weight limit on the escalators, and Trump tripped the breaker when he stepped on.
appleannie1
(5,351 posts)SergeStorms
(19,789 posts)but American machinery recognizes Euro-trash in an instant. Between the two of them, they were lucky to get to the second floor at all.
Rhiannon12866
(243,950 posts)

MadameButterfly
(3,591 posts)at the top of the escalator designed to keep people from getting caught up in the gears of the escalator. Thus stopping the escalator.
Ironically, this was the shot the Trump photographer was probably trying to take. Not that it would have compared to Obama's pic anyway, but you know they are trying.
Totally Tunsie
(11,293 posts)C Moon
(13,217 posts)Except that they will also go flat.
Biophilic
(6,106 posts)AllaN01Bear
(27,502 posts)
IcyPeas
(24,314 posts)And if it had stopped, he would've trotted up, 2 steps at a time, not spilling a drop of his coffee, and smiling the whole way.
— (@birdy123.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T15:10:18.621Z
That escalator had been broken for months, but started working as soon as Obama stepped on.
— Peter Nincompoop (@carcrashrecorder.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T19:39:56.196Z
MadameButterfly
(3,591 posts)and it certainly wouldn't have entered his speech.
fierywoman
(8,432 posts)make that one stop in order to apologize for not stopping the escalator going downward at Trump Tower when he announced his first candidacy (2015?)
Rhiannon12866
(243,950 posts)

evemac
(241 posts)
tulipsandroses
(7,971 posts)Democratic presidents do it better!
Skittles
(167,787 posts)
Joinfortmill
(19,016 posts)Bayard
(27,193 posts)I'm sure he never embarrassed us at the UN.
Rhiannon12866
(243,950 posts)Unlike the current thin-skinned blowhard...