{"id":251012,"date":"2025-09-24T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251012\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:54:09","slug":"un-says-trumps-team-to-blame-for-nonworking-escalator-and-teleprompter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251012\/","title":{"rendered":"UN says Trump’s team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks<\/a> at the United Nations on Tuesday to bemoan an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter, using the incidents to portray the global body as dysfunctional.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle,\u201d he mused, chopping the air with his hand.<\/p>\n

But it turns out the cause was closer to Trump.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,\u201d Dujarric said in a statement. \u201cThe videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he began his speech, Trump also noted that the teleprompter wasn’t working. He joked that whoever was running the teleprompter \u201cis in big trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the cause, it’s not unusual for escalators at the UN to stop working, as staff and visitors know quite well.<\/p>\n

In recent months, U.N. offices in New York and Geneva have intermittently turned off elevators and escalators as part of steps to save money because of a \u201cliquidity crisis\u201d at the world body.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s due in part to delays in funding from the United States, which is the top donor of the world body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks at the United Nations on Tuesday to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[132892,347,57,51,50,80,52,61,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-251012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-132892","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-u-s-news","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}