{"id":47840,"date":"2025-09-24T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47840"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:58:34","slug":"trump-says-secret-service-probing-sabotage-of-escalator-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47840","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Secret Service probing &#8216;sabotage&#8217; of escalator at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sept 24 (Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the Secret Service was investigating what he described as \u201csabotage\u201d at the United Nations, alleging that an escalator malfunction, a teleprompter failure and sound problems disrupted his appearance at the world body a day earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, said an escalator carrying him and his wife Melania \u201ccame to a screeching halt\u201d on the way to the main floor, nearly causing them to fall. He called for the arrest of whoever was responsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He also said his teleprompter went dark at the start of his speech and that world leaders in the hall could not hear him because the sound system had failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Not one, not two, but three very sinister events!&#8221; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">U.N. officials&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/who-stopped-un-escalator-likely-trumps-videographer-says-un-2025-09-24\/\"><u>have said<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;the escalator\u2019s built-in safety mechanism had been triggered and that the teleprompter was operated by the White House, not the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Calling the series of events \u201ctriple sabotage,\u201d Trump said he had asked the U.N. to preserve security camera footage and demanded an investigation. He said the Secret Service was looking into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">U.N. officials did not immediately respond to a request for a comment on Trump&#8217;s call for an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">U.N. spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric said on Monday that a readout of the escalator\u2019s central processing unit indicated it \u201chad stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Dujarric said Trump\u2019s videographer had been traveling backward up the escalator to capture his arrival with the first lady. \u201cThe videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A U.N. official told Reuters on Tuesday that the White House had operated its own teleprompter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to the allegation that delegates had not been able to hear Trump, the official said the sound system was designed to allow people at their seats to hear speeches being translated into six different languages through earpieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-says-secret-service-probing-sabotage-escalator-un-2025-09-24\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 24 (Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the Secret Service was investigating what he described as \u201csabotage\u201d at the United Nations, alleging that an escalator malfunction, a teleprompter failure and sound problems disrupted his appearance at the world body a day earlier. 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