UN says Trump escalator, teleprompter issues were actually caused by his team

The Secret Service will be looking into the issues, which included an escalator that stopped suddenly and a defective teleprompter, Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was the victim of “three very sinister events” during his time at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

The Secret Service will be looking into the issues, which included an escalator that suddenly stopped and a defective teleprompter, Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“First, the escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime. It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first,” Trump wrote.

“It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster. This was absolutely sabotage, as noted by a day’s earlier ‘post’ in The London Times that said UN workers ‘joked about turning off an escalator.’ The people that did it should be arrested.”

But it turns out the escalator coming to a halt with Trump and his entourage on it was due to his own team, said a UN representative.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement that a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of Trump triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.

“The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric said in a statement. “The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function.”

Later in his post on Truth Social, Trump noted that the teleprompter wasn’t working when he began his speech at the UN headquarters.