Turns Out Trump’s Own Team Messed Up U.N. Escalator and Teleprompter

https://newrepublic.com/post/200833/trump-team-messed-up-un-escalator-teleprompter

33 comments

  1. Incompetence mixed with arrogance, anger, and misplaced blame.

    It is a fairly fitting anecdote that sums up the Trump administration.

  3. Trump doesn’t hire for competency, only loyalty. And competent people tend to know better than to have unwavering loyalty to someone who will betray you in a second the first chance they get.

  4. “We’re launching an investigation to find out which left wing radical paid them to do it”

  6. “But [according](https://x.com/FarnoushAmiri/status/1970550407807041617) to the Associated Press’s Farnoush Amiri, an anonymous U.N. official said the [escalator](https://x.com/cspan/status/1970544863130399037) in question was actually stopped prematurely by someone from Trump’s group, who ran ahead of the group and accidentally triggered a stop mechanism. The official added that the teleprompter that Trump was so upset about was also being operated by his White House…”

    Sounds about right. He surrounds himself with incompetent yes-men and then blames that incompetence on someone else.

  7. Team Trump: “Get out of the way, you don’t know what you’re doing. We have the best people. We’re not like you foreigners.”

    UN Staff: (blinking) “Okay, it’s your show bud.”

  9. Of course they did! And AS USUAL they are blaming everyone else.

  10. Externalizing attribution for all negative outcomes|experiences is second nature for Trump and his sycophants.

  11. I just assumed the elevator gave out under the strain of his weight, just like his ankles.

  12. “We traced the call: the incompetence is coming from *inside* the house!”

  13. If/when this nightmare ends they should really commission a study into just how ineffective the average federal exployee became under Trump.

    Trump attacked and forced out anyone even remotely competent. Things like clearly illegal orders and dictator like loyalty pledges had all the intelligent people running for the doors.

    If you’ve ever wanted to commit a federal crime, now would be the time. The FBI is far less likely to catch you now that they’re run and staffed by straight up Trump cultists.

  14. My first thought was that it was his team that botched all these things. He knows this, he just lies and blames everything on other people

  15. If Jimmy Kimmel said that it would mean a broadcast license revocation.

    /s

  16. Of course they did. They are ridiculously incompetent and arrogant.

  17. Anyone else would just have laughed when that escalator stopped and simply walked up.

  18. Planned so he could rant against the UN. He was at the bottom when the escalator stopped , climbing up instead of using the working escalator right beside him.

  21. Here’s a joke to start your day:

    How many MAGAs does it take to work an escalator?

    Three. One to operate the controls, one to go up the escalator, and one to complain about Hilary Clinton’s emails.

  22. This might be the most on the nose metaphor for this administration

  23. Guess I was right in what I was assuming in some of my previous comments:

    > So, I’ve seen this video from a lot of angles. How about the angle of the photographer from Trump’s team who was ahead of him, walking backwards on the escalator to take a photo of him going up?
    >
    > Because I’m thinking the guy kept doing it well out of the frame of the video and accidentally hit the emergency escalator stop button by stepping on it. That now, they aren’t admitting to it because just like the teleprompter incidence it illustrates the sort of incompetence Trump is bringing with him to events because he prices loyalty over competence. And in true Trump fashion, they’d rather burn bridges than slightly smidge their dear leader.

  26. This is just their MO…..fuck up everything they touch that was working fine before they got there.

  27. So we either will hear nothing about this anymore or trumps team will blame trans people

  28. Yeah, but once Kristi Noem gets involved she’ll find the trans liberal terrorist who was actually involved in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump using an escalator. Either that or they’ll just blame Hunter Biden. Either way.

  29. Which would barely have mattered to a normal leader, who would shake their head and smile and say “nothing’s going my way today, ha ha” and then get on with their life.

  31. I’m glad to hear that, apparently we were on the verge of bombing or gassing the place. You know Trump gets a lot of his shitty ideas from fox 🦊

  32. Manufactured outrage. And it got Fox commentators promoting the destruction of the UN building

  33. Once more the man is made a fool by his own words. I bet none are surprised by this.

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