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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDay 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?

niyad
(127,629 posts)Clouds Passing
(5,923 posts)maxsolomon
(37,436 posts)The UN should start planning to move the General Assembly to Geneva.
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).
Deuxcents
(24,225 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,602 posts)senseandsensibility
(24,015 posts)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)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)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.
Irish_Dem
(75,602 posts)senseandsensibility
(24,015 posts)it seems to me, anyway. Didn't someone call it sabotage yesterday?
Irish_Dem
(75,602 posts)BlueKota
(4,646 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,602 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,570 posts)and most of MAGA dutifully have followed the script.
GreenWave
(11,698 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,570 posts)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.
Irish_Dem
(75,602 posts)Such crybabies.
BlueKota
(4,646 posts)Just when you think they can't drive they drive the clown car any further, they step on the gas and keep going.
Ping Tung
(3,761 posts)when performing it.
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)"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)DBoon
(24,323 posts)Orrex
(66,109 posts)Doesn't have to be an escalator. Woodchipper would be fine, combine harvester, meatpacking apparatus, etc.
ornotna
(11,369 posts)
Frasier Balzov
(4,593 posts)progressoid
(52,030 posts)cornball 24
(1,561 posts)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)and it most likely is, there must be video of who that was and when it happened. Release the tapes!
Cha
(314,675 posts)
Katinfl
(521 posts)Every day someone is out to get him, or so he thinks.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,040 posts)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)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 âcontroversyâ 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
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 Trumps 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 escalators 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)The escalator shut down because it exceeded its weight limit when donny stepped on it.
SSJVegeta
(1,606 posts)...to walk!
Jilly_in_VA
(13,135 posts)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 wasnt 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!
struggle4progress
(124,699 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,639 posts)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.
SheltieLover
(74,065 posts)
LetMyPeopleVote
(170,520 posts)TBF
(35,199 posts)Release them, unredacted!
Hey Joe
(247 posts)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)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)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.