Trump Demands Arrests for U.N. “Sabotage” Amid MAGA Escalator Conspiracy: A Closer Look

Trump Demands Arrests for U.N. “Sabotage” Amid MAGA Escalator Conspiracy: A Closer Look

-The President is
laser focused on inflation and grocery prices. Today, he made a major
announcement at the White House in which he unveiled
a detailed six-part plan that economists say
could lead to a breakthrough in the White House’s unwavering attempts to make
groceries more affordable and ease the financial burden
on American household budgets. And obviously,
that did not [ Bleep ] happen. Did you guys hear me? Did you hear how
insane that sounds? the whole time were you like, “Is he serious?
Because this sounds good.” I’m sorry to say
that if you fell for that, you’re the victim of another
Classic Closer Look Misdirect. -[ Boom ]
-Classic Closer Look Misdirect. [ Horns blowing ] [ Audience laughs ] Obviously, the President
did not make an announcement on grocery prices.
That’s campaign stuff. Now that he’s President, he’s focused on something
much more important. Demanding that people
be arrested because an escalator
stopped working. For more on this,
it’s time for A Closer Look. [ Cheers and applause ] Republicans have had their share of intraparty feuds
over the years, but there’s one thing
they can all agree on Donald Trump is a big,
strong, masculine guy. -This is the toughest,
strongest man. -The toughest guy
I’ve ever seen in Washington. -He’s tough
as an old army boot. -This man is the toughest,
most resilient human being. -The most masculine person,
I think, to ever hold the White House as the President
of the United States. -Yeah. He’s the most
masculine person to ever hold the White House. He’s not dancing
at those rallies. He’s working out. You can’t see him. He’s got little dumbbells
in his hands. Now, some of you
might think the title of most masculine president would belong to a general like
Eisenhower or Ulysses S. Grant, or perhaps to Teddy Roosevelt,
an avid hunter and boxer who commanded a cavalry regiment
known as the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, and was so masculine he called
himself the Bull Moose. But you’d be wrong, because,
according to Trump sycophants, Teddy can’t hold a candle
to Trump’s masculinity. If you read the new
“MAGA History Of America”, it turns out Teddy Roosevelt had
an extensive Labubu collection. And unlike Trump, he did
not lift weights at his rallies. He ended every speech
by dancing to “YMCA”. -♪ It’s fun to stay
at the YMCA ♪ -That worked out better
than I thought it would. The point is,
Trump is the strongest, most masculine president ever. Nothing can stop this man.
Nothing. -Something that definitely
did not work this morning was the escalator
at the U.N. complex. The President and First Lady
walked into the U.N. this morning and were
abruptly stopped at the bottom. That brief pause followed
by a walk up the stairs. -Trump and Melania were riding
it up and it just stopped. -It came to a grinding halt, and you can even see them kind
of slightly lurching forward. -Thankfully, the First lady and the President
had their hands on the rail as they were going up
the escalator, or you likely would have fallen
down and injured themselves. -I have been
on so many escalators without ever once worrying
about the sharp edges of the steel steps. It’s an escalator, not T-1000. [ As Trump ]
Escalators, no one likes the escalator’s
sharp metal edges. It’s why they call it
the devil’s staircase. I thought Trump was the
most masculine president ever. You guys are talking about him
like he’s a Fabergé egg. Is he a cross between
Dave Bautista and Ivan Drago, or is he the old lady from the
Life Call’s commercials? Is that how he started
his speech at the U.N.? -The assembly will hear
an address by His Excellency Donald Trump, President of the United States
of America. -I’ve fallen and I can’t get up. -And look, hey, guys,
presidents fall sometimes. It happens. Remember when
Joe Biden fell off his bike? Or that time he turned stairs
into an escalator? I don’t remember
Democrats saying, “Who’s the saboteur who replaced the president’s
shoes with roller skates?” Let’s listen again to how the Fox hosts described
this harrowing incident. -Trump and Melania were riding
it up and it just stopped. -It came to a grinding halt, and you can even see them kind
of slightly lurching forward. -They’re describing
an escalator malfunction, like they’re telling
a spooky story at a campfire. Are they going to start holding
flashlights under their chin? [ Cheers and applause ] [ In a scary voice ]
There was once a man and a woman who were going up from the
first floor to the second floor. Was the second floor haunted,
you ask? We’ll never know, because shortly after they
stepped onto the escalator, it stopped. It came to a grinding halt. What happened next
will curdle your blood and send shivers
down your spine. When the escalator stopped,
they lurched forward. Not a lot, just slightly. And the man and the woman
were forced to walk. [ Echoes ] [ Thunder crashes ] [ Woman cackles ] Uh, oh. [ Cheers and applause ] Also… Was I wrong? I thought MAGA was supposed to
be the party of the common man. Do you know how out of touch
you sound complaining about an escalator
that lurched slightly forward? The writer of this segment rides
the F train to work every day. It’s his dream
to lurch forward only slightly. But Fox isn’t just mad at whoever’s in charge
of the escalator. They’re also annoyed
at the Secret Service. -I was more, you know,
stunned at the reaction. Like the leader of the
free world is on the escalator and the Secret Service is
looking like, “What do we do?” -What did you want them to do? Trump looked around for a second and started walking up
the escalator. Seems like
a pretty good outcome. Would it have been better if someone had screamed,
“Black Hawk Down,” and then just tackled him? Should they have all lied down
end-to-end to make a human carpet so he didn’t have to step on
the sharp edges, was it? But Trump and his White House are less concerned
with the Secret Service than they are with finding
the dastardly perpetrators of this sinister act
and holding them accountable. -It does appear to be sabotage. -That’s definitely what
it appears to be to me. -Something more
nefarious happening. -You think they
deliberately were trying -to sabotage Donald Trump?
-Absolute sabotage. -The most masculine president
in history. Sure sounds like someone who would get kicked
off the Nextdoor app for complaining too much. Honestly, I do hope they find the people responsible
and arrest them because it will be the funniest
criminal trial of all time. Defendant, please rise. You’ve been charged with
one count of gentle pranking and one count
of aggravated hijinks. How do you plead? Uh, Your Honor, the defendant pleads not guilty
by reason of hilarity. And would the defendant like
to add anything? Yes, Your Honor. -[ Horn honks ]
-[ Cheers and applause ] Defendant will be remanded
to solitary confinement. But as always seems to happen
when Trump and his supporters suspect a vast,
shadowy conspiracy, it turns out there’s
a much simpler and more innocent explanation. -The U.N. is offering
some explanations here. They say it was likely a
videographer for the White House who accidentally tripped
a safety mechanism, causing the escalator to stop. -That’s right. It turns out the saboteur came
from inside the White House. The White House has a mole,
a double agent. But who could it be? What powerful force
would have an incentive to cause the President
mild pain? Pain that could be
easily treated by some sort of over-the-counter medication. Hold on, let me… Let me take a sip of my coffee. [ Cheers and applause ] Who could it be? Dammit! -Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take Tylenol.
Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take Tylenol.
Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take Tylenol.
Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take Tylenol. [ Cheers and applause ] Of course,
it won’t surprise you to learn even after
the U.N. investigation, Trump supporters
aren’t buying it. Not because they have
any evidence, but because of their own
personal experience with escalators. -The spokesperson for the U.N.
General Secretary on the Escalator Gate
has said this, “As the videographer,
who was trav…” I don’t buy this by the way. This has never
happened to me before. I do a lot of shopping.
Go to a lot of malls. -I’ve been caught on five
elevators in my life. An escalator has never stopped
working mid-escalation. -I’m sorry. You’ve been caught
on five elevators? Are you doing it wrong? What floor — What floor is your
apartment on, alarm? As absurd as this is,
it’s also deeply revealing. Everywhere they look, MAGA sees
a shadowy conspiracy whether it’s escalators,
climate change, or elections they don’t win. Reality doesn’t conform
to their pre-existing agendas. So they have to imagine
a sinister fantasy in which scientists are making
up a climate-change hoax, where Democrats are
stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent votes, and where saboteurs are
orchestrating a secretive, far-reaching plot that ends
with an escalator. -Slightly lurching forward. This has been “A Closer Look”. [ Cheers and applause ]

Seth takes a closer look at MAGA Republicans and Fox News hosts speculating that there was a nefarious conspiracy to stop Trump’s escalator at the United Nations.

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