{"id":258760,"date":"2025-09-27T12:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258760\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T12:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:54:38","slug":"south-koreas-lee-among-world-leaders-stopped-in-new-york-as-trumps-motorcade-takes-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258760\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s Lee among world leaders stopped in New York as Trump\u2019s motorcade takes priority"},"content":{"rendered":"

The presidents of Turkey and South Korea have become the latest leaders attending the UN\u2019s signature diplomatic gathering to be forced to wait on the streets of New York City to let Donald Trump\u2019s motorcade pass.<\/p>\n

Videos shared on social media showed Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s delegation attempting to move past barricades before officers blocked them from crossing a street on Tuesday, leaving the Turkish president irked.<\/p>\n

Erdogan was in the US city to take part in the annual United Nations General Assembly, which for New Yorkers is synonymous with traffic jams as several streets around the world body\u2019s headquarters on the East River are closed off.<\/p>\n

\"SouthSouth Korean President Lee Jae-myung (left) talks with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last month. Photo: TNS<\/p>\n

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung was also stopped separately by police while leaving the UN headquarters in Manhattan, according to footage circulating on social media.<\/p>\n

Representatives from his entourage tried to negotiate with officers, but to no avail, prompting Lee and his team to wait on the pavement until US President Trump\u2019s convoy swept through the city.<\/p>\n

The incidents came a day after French President Emmanuel Macron experienced a similar situation when an officer stopped him crossing the street due to Trump\u2019s escort.<\/p>\n

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World leaders stuck on pavement by Trump motorcade<\/p>\n

World leaders stuck on pavement by Trump motorcade<\/p>\n

But unlike his Turkish and South Korean counterparts who appeared visibly annoyed, Macron phoned Trump and said: \u201cGuess what? I\u2019m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The presidents of Turkey and South Korea have become the latest leaders attending the UN\u2019s signature diplomatic gathering…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":258761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1578,69,29876,8703,135914,30359,5249,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,32307,15243,135913,24922,31689,36679,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,2058],"class_list":{"0":"post-258760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-east-river","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-french-diplomatic-mission","14":"tag-lee-jae-myung","15":"tag-manhattan","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","23":"tag-south-korea","24":"tag-the-chosun-daily","25":"tag-turkey","26":"tag-un","27":"tag-united-nations-general-assembly","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-of-america","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa","34":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115276367199575749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258760","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=258760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}