Turns Out Trump's Own Team Messed Up U.N. Escalator and Teleprompter

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President Trump repeatedly blamed the United Nations for his teleprompter issues and a malfunctioning escalator in a spiteful Tuesday speech to the General Assembly. But it seems that both issues were caused directly by his own team.

“All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle,” Trump said after claiming to have brought so much peace and prosperity to the world without any international assistance. “If the first lady wasn’t in great shape, she would’ve fallen. But she’s in great shape … and then a teleprompter that didn’t work. These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. Thank you very much.”

But according to the Associated Press’s Farnoush Amiri, an anonymous U.N. official said the escalator in question was actually stopped prematurely by someone from Trump’s group, who ran ahead of the group and accidentally triggered a stop mechanism. The official added that the teleprompter that Trump was so upset about was also being operated by his White House.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/turns-trump-own-team-messed-200956972.html


Acyn @Acyn
Watters: it does appear to be sabotage with the escalator and the teleprompter..

Leavitt: It appears that way to me… if we find these were UN staffers who were purposely trying to literally trip up the president and the first lady, there better be accountability for those people and I will personally see to it.

Link to tweet

[RockRaven]

1. Highly predictable, and entirely on-brand.

[Dave Bowman]

2. Only the best people.

[newdeal2]

3. No rapture for him!

I’m surprised he didn’t ask the secret service to lift him up like a pharaoh.

[BOSSHOG]

4. You go girl carolyin

You go “personally” kick some UN Ass. But don’t VERIFY. ANYTHING. Imagine 20 something carolyin will have trump as her personal albatross forever.

And the always Suave and “deboner” Watters offering valuable insight to the unwashed.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Blaming others for their mistakes.

It never gets old for them, does it?

[KT2000]

6. He hires idiots

so what did he expect?

[UTUSN]

7. You're fired! You're fired! You get a fired! You get a fired!

[Cha]

8. lol OfCourse.. Neo Nazi Idiots Strike Again.

[DET]

9. 'there better be accountability for those people and I will personally see to it'

Ms. Leavitt may still be young enough to actually learn from the hard lessons she has coming in life. Not everyone and everything can be bought or intimidated, especially by a 27 year old twit.

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. So maybe it's his own staff who are trying to 86 him?

I've had bosses like that, too. Thing is, though, it's the DOWN escalators you want to stop short.

[Deuxcents]

11. This is one of the best show your ass stories today 😆

A gaggle of idiots all in a row

[tanyev]

12. There ya go, Ms. Leavitt. Ought to be real easy for you to dish out that accountability to your own team.

[BattleRow]

13. Someone figured out how to de escalate his ascent.

[RainCaster]

14. I thought the escalator couldn't handle his weight

I like that explanation, but I'm happy that he is surrounded by incompetents.

[Mister Ed]

15. Facts don't matter.

His cult will believe ever and always that he was sabotaged by forces unknown at the UN.

[Woodwizard]

16. I think we all know at least one ass in real life.

The one who always screws up the simplest tasks and rages about how things don't work.

Now a whole crowd of them are in the White House.

[oasis]

17. Keystone Cops administration.