The Guardian Article RatingTrump angered by 'bad escalator' at UN as White House vows to investigate malfunction
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- Politician Portrayal
-64% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
48% : Footage showed the 79-year-old president and First Lady Melania Trump getting on the escalator at UN headquarters, before it stopped with a lurch after a short distance.47% : "If we find that these were UN and staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up, literally trip up the president and the first lady of the United States, well, there better be accountability for those people.
45% : But the UN insisted there were simple explanations.
41% : "All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that, on the way up, stopped right in the middle.
32% : " A UN spokesman said the mishap happened because someone in front of Trump accidentally set off a safety mechanism on the escalator, causing it to shut down.
32% : Several other White House figures and conservative commentators also speculated about a plot against Trump.
24% : "I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations," Trump said.
24% : " He added: "These are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
19% : "Whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble," Trump said.
17% : Press secretary speculates the escalator stopped on purpose to humiliate president, but UN says safety function may have been 'inadvertently triggered' Donald Trump appeared to laugh it off Tuesday when an escalator and a teleprompter both malfunctioned during his United Nations visit - but for US officials it was no laughing matter.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
