The UN is trying to avoid a repeat of Trump’s 2025 Escalator Snafu | Today’s news
The defining moment of the 2025 meeting of world leaders at the United Nations could have been Donald Trump being accused of “sabotage” after his teleprompter blinked and an escalator stopped while he was on it.
Now the world body is working overtime to ensure nothing like this happens again, to distract from its focus on solving the world’s problems this week. Trump is scheduled to deliver his speech at the iconic United Nations headquarters in New York’s East River on Tuesday.
“It was checked and checked again,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters about the escalator at a high-level briefing on Monday before the General Assembly.
The United Nations is making sure everything runs smoothly a year after Trump called for the arrest of the person who allegedly triggered the shutdown of an escalator just as he and first lady Melania Trump stepped onto it. The UN said at the time that Trump’s cameraman may have been to blame.
The president then accused the organization of “triple sabotage” after the teleprompter went off as he was about to deliver his speech, and was then told that the sound in the General Assembly hall had gone dead as he delivered the speech.
UN officials again placed the blame on Trump and his team at the time, saying they were the ones who insisted on using their own teleprompter. They said the sound in the hall is usually kept low so dignitaries can listen to translations fed through an earpiece.
“New measures have been taken to make it easier for the US delegation to use the remote control,” Dujarric said. He added that the U.S. now has a separate workstation, “so we hope it will work without any problems.”
In any case, the UN may have bigger problems. Flights at major New York airports were grounded due to a technical problem at air traffic control in Philadelphia.
The issue delayed the arrival of some officials in New York for the UN event. Trump, who was due to arrive in the city in the afternoon for a meeting with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, was not affected by the delay.
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