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senseandsensibility

(24,015 posts)
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 02:57 PM Thursday

Day Two of Escalator Gate. It's looking like they're gonna run with this, people.

Orders to keep whining about the escalator malfunction at the UN must be coming from the top. Leavitt and others have already weighed in, and now lower level maga congressmen are trying to score political points by keeping it going.

Today Rep. Greg Steube said: "Thankfully the first lady and the president had their hands on the rails that were going up the escalator, or they likely would've fallen down and injured themselves. It seems intentional...I don't know why we're still part of the UN."

Are they really going to try to use this to press charges against someone? As an excuse to leave the UN? The way things are going, who knows?

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Day Two of Escalator Gate. It's looking like they're gonna run with this, people. (Original Post) senseandsensibility Thursday OP
RELEASE THE TRUMPSTEIN FILES!!! niyad Thursday #1
I second this! Clouds Passing Thursday #30
Dotard McNarcissist is a Bircher's dream come true. maxsolomon Thursday #2
THIS! NCDem47 Thursday #36
After a big whiney display, he's gotta keep up the drama for his base Deuxcents Thursday #3
I think he is trying to deflect from his speech which everyone is making fun of. Irish_Dem Thursday #6
You may be right senseandsensibility Thursday #11
We know he gets some glimpses of reality by how he lashes out about things. Irish_Dem Thursday #34
Anything and EVERYTHING to B.See Thursday #31
Are they trying to say this was an assassination attempt? Irish_Dem Thursday #4
Implying at least senseandsensibility Thursday #5
Just when I think Trump cannot look more crazy, he surprises me. Irish_Dem Thursday #7
He always manages to top himself. BlueKota Thursday #9
We have to give him credit for always outdoing himself. Irish_Dem Thursday #12
The Lie Machine Press Secretary said it was sabotage Wiz Imp Thursday #40
Wait til AI erupts against him. GreenWave Thursday #13
Yes. Many MAGAs are saying that. Never mind that it makes zero sense. Wiz Imp Thursday #39
Their victimhood claims are getting very old. Irish_Dem Thursday #41
🤦‍♀️ BlueKota Thursday #8
The congressman needs to tone down his blatant asskissing or at least blush Ping Tung Thursday #10
yes Skittles Thursday #45
Someone tripped the sensor. 58Sunliner Thursday #14
It's a shame that he wasn't crushed and mutilated horribly Orrex Thursday #15
why would you want to destroy an escalator in such a horrible fashion ? DBoon Thursday #29
Oh, I just meant "crushed and mutilated" in a general sense Orrex Thursday #44
Greg Steube is a scumbag ornotna Thursday #16
Allen Spence is the Democrat running in FL-17. Frasier Balzov Thursday #17
More talking about an escalator means less time for Epstein. progressoid Thursday #18
AHA! Perhaps the escalator malfunctioned because that's where the EPSTEIN cornball 24 Thursday #19
If the UN's version that it was Trump's videographer is true, tanyev Thursday #20
BULLSHIT... it was ALL Traitor's Fault. Cha Thursday #21
If I were not living this nonsense, I would never believe it. Katinfl Thursday #22
I wouldn't put it past Been A Dick Donald instructing one of his toadys MarineCombatEngineer Thursday #23
MaddowBlog-The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator 'controversy' LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #24
So damn stupid! What actually happened... 2MuchNoise Thursday #25
What terrible people to force such a decripit old helpless invalid SSJVegeta Thursday #26
They can run with it all they like, BUT Jilly_in_VA Thursday #27
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose struggle4progress Thursday #28
This is PURELY for his base ThoughtCriminal Thursday #32
EPSTEIN, MAXWELL, & MALARIA SheltieLover Thursday #33
Here are some proper responses to this trump silliness LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #35
They'll talk about anything to avoid EPSTEIN FILES TBF Thursday #37
Unbelievable weakness Hey Joe Thursday #38
Whomever said escalators always work BlueKota Thursday #42
The local Boscovs store has an escalator, it breaks quite offten and I have seen doc03 Thursday #43

maxsolomon

(37,436 posts)
2. Dotard McNarcissist is a Bircher's dream come true.
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 02:59 PM
Thursday

The UN should start planning to move the General Assembly to Geneva.

NCDem47

(3,086 posts)
36. THIS!
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:39 PM
Thursday

I mean, keep the NYC real estate for something, but have the grownups move the important discussions and speeches to Switzerland. Can't give MAGA the satisfaction the UN was run out of town (they would loooove that afterall).

senseandsensibility

(24,015 posts)
11. You may be right
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:08 PM
Thursday

but that would show some self awareness. My theory is that he does not hear any negative opinions about anything he does and his staff fall all over themselves all day to tell him how popular he is.

Irish_Dem

(75,602 posts)
34. We know he gets some glimpses of reality by how he lashes out about things.
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:08 PM
Thursday

Sometimes he is furious about what people are saying or doing.
So he is getting some taste of current events.

B.See

(6,811 posts)
31. Anything and EVERYTHING to
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:03 PM
Thursday

stir up and inflame his cult of fanatics, especially since it distracts from his FAILING economy, FAILING foreign policies, shredding of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and America's social safety nets,

his continuous PROFITEERING from the office, his UNDERMINING of our healthcare,

and EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN.

Plus side being, maybe his lemmings, spin doctors, and yes men will THEMSELVES be sufficiently distracted as to not realize the shifting voter trends happening, esp. in swing states.

So go right ahead and keep trying to blow smoke up people's bums while you DUCK OUT OF TOWN HALLS.

Wiz Imp

(7,570 posts)
40. The Lie Machine Press Secretary said it was sabotage
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 06:21 PM
Thursday

and most of MAGA dutifully have followed the script.

Wiz Imp

(7,570 posts)
39. Yes. Many MAGAs are saying that. Never mind that it makes zero sense.
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 06:20 PM
Thursday

They say it made him a stationary target ignoring that he was inside one of the most secure buildings in the world. Just proving again how stupid they are.

BlueKota

(4,646 posts)
8. 🤦‍♀️
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:05 PM
Thursday

Just when you think they can't drive they drive the clown car any further, they step on the gas and keep going.

Skittles

(167,772 posts)
45. yes
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 08:48 PM
Thursday

I wonder if this is what his lifelong goal was, to kiss the ass of a thoroughly disgusting idiotic dictator-wannabe, WTF is WRONG with these people

58Sunliner

(6,122 posts)
14. Someone tripped the sensor.
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:13 PM
Thursday

"The United Nations issued a statement about the incident, saying that the escalator stopping might have been triggered by a safety feature as a videographer was standing backward on the escalator, ahead of the president, while trying to film him."
They already know this. "I'm a victim!!!!!!!"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/responds-trump-escalator-malfunction/story?id=125885502

Orrex

(66,109 posts)
44. Oh, I just meant "crushed and mutilated" in a general sense
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 08:43 PM
Thursday

Doesn't have to be an escalator. Woodchipper would be fine, combine harvester, meatpacking apparatus, etc.

cornball 24

(1,561 posts)
19. AHA! Perhaps the escalator malfunctioned because that's where the EPSTEIN
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:27 PM
Thursday

FILES are hidden! Dumpy knew it and was afraid they would be revealed so he made that Olympian challenge of climbing the stairs.

tanyev

(47,927 posts)
20. If the UN's version that it was Trump's videographer is true,
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:27 PM
Thursday

and it most likely is, there must be video of who that was and when it happened. Release the tapes!

Katinfl

(521 posts)
22. If I were not living this nonsense, I would never believe it.
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:44 PM
Thursday

Every day someone is out to get him, or so he thinks.

MarineCombatEngineer

(16,040 posts)
23. I wouldn't put it past Been A Dick Donald instructing one of his toadys
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:48 PM
Thursday

to purposely stop the escalator just as him and his wife stepped onto it so he could try to distract from the Epstein files and give him something else to rant and rave about, but, so far, it seems to not be working.

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,520 posts)
24. MaddowBlog-The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator 'controversy'
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:52 PM
Thursday

Some Republicans suggested the U.N. had targeted Donald Trump with an escalator malfunction. Evidently, the truth was more benign.

The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator ‘controversy’ www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Margie (@paeznyc.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T21:18:52.855Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rapid-rise-sudden-fall-united-nation-escalator-controversy-rcna233450

During his ridiculous address to the U.N. General Assembly, Donald Trump covered quite a bit of ground, but his speech included a curious reference to, of all things, an escalator......

Evidently, the truth was more benign. NBC News reported:

The United Nations has concluded its one-day investigation into the mysterious halting of President Donald Trump’s escalator Tuesday as he arrived at the U.N. General Assembly. The accidental culprit? A White House videographer who most likely tripped a safety mechanism.

A U.N. spokesperson explained: “The escalator had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator. The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing. The [White House] videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function described above.”.....

All of this, of course, came before the public learned that it was a White House videographer that apparently triggered the escalator’s safety measures.

Kevin Kruse, a historian at Princeton University, noted soon after: “This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism — because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up.”


This is getting silly

2MuchNoise

(507 posts)
25. So damn stupid! What actually happened...
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 04:43 PM
Thursday

The escalator shut down because it exceeded its weight limit when donny stepped on it.

Jilly_in_VA

(13,135 posts)
27. They can run with it all they like, BUT
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 04:52 PM
Thursday
After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump’s team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter

Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.

“The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric said in a statement. “The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function.”

As he began his speech, Trump also noted that the teleprompter wasn’t working. He joked that whoever was running the teleprompter “is in big trouble.”

A U.N. official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue contributed that one to his side as well, saying the White House was operating the teleprompter for the president.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-un-escalator-teleprompter-ddfc0875301f29d71625b353f2c2f832

So there so now, ya bunch of eejit amadons!

ThoughtCriminal

(14,639 posts)
32. This is PURELY for his base
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:05 PM
Thursday

and boy-howdy, they are the dumbest clods on Earth. I have to wonder about what it must be like to be a FOX propagandist and have to pretend that this is a story and humiliate themselves. Or maybe they are brain-damaged enough think it is.

That they are letting this churn for another few news cycles is a blend of insanity and desperation.

Hey Joe

(247 posts)
38. Unbelievable weakness
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:50 PM
Thursday

For a manbaby who talks so tough and is forever badmouthing others for his own stupidity and ignorance this is rich indeed.
He has to be the most cartoonishly frail and weak little bitch I have ever witnessed in my entire life.
Never thought that a grown-ass man could ever be this nauseatingly feeble. Does he travel with a fainting couch?

BlueKota

(4,646 posts)
42. Whomever said escalators always work
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 06:29 PM
Thursday

has never been to the one at the Barnes and Noble closest to where I live. That has been broken on and off for the past 2 years. Walking up isn't bad. But climbing down it always scares me because I think I am going to trip and fall and knock everyone ahead of me down. 😅

doc03

(38,452 posts)
43. The local Boscovs store has an escalator, it breaks quite offten and I have seen
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 07:07 PM
Thursday

several customers trip and fall getting on or off it over the years. The thing is almost a half century old, they
break like any other mechanical device.

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