'Bad escalator, bad teleprompter': Trump fumes at UN after embarrassing tech failures - The Times of India

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57% : He also wrote, "It was a great honour to speak before the United Nations ... even if their equipment is somewhat faulty."
55% : After the speech, Trump addressed the glitches in a post on Truth Social, an American alt-tech social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology "The teleprompter was broken and the escalator came to a sudden halt ... but both of those events probably made the speech more interesting."
48% : Soon after, he returned to the escalator, saying, "All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle.
43% : UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric explained that a videographer in the US delegation may have inadvertently triggered the escalator's built-in safety mechanism, causing the stoppage.
39% : The unexpected glitch of the escalator they stepped onto that came to a stop mid‑ascent set the tone for a speech in which Trump used the mishap to land rhetorical jabs at the UN.
33% : Trump joked about the incidents, blaming the UN.The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) commenced on September 23, 2025, and will continue through September 27, concluding on September 29.
30% : Trump joked about the incident during his speech to world leaders later that day, also mentioning that the teleprompter wasn't working.
29% : On the teleprompter, a UN official, speaking anonymously, said that the White House had been operating its own device, suggesting the fault lay in the US team's equipment rather than in UN systems, according to the Associated Press.
24% : He added, "These are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
18% : "According to a Reuters report, the UN offered pushback on Trump's framing.
9% : However, during the arrival of US president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the United Nations, the escalator suddenly stopped right after the US President Donald Trump stepped on it, and the video of the incident went instantly viral online.

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