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Who stopped the UN escalator? Likely Trump's videographer, says UN (www.reuters.com)

submitted 6 days ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after Donald Trump stepped onto it on Tuesday - his videographer may have accidentally triggered a safety mechanism.

U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said a readout of the escalator's central processing unit indicated it "had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator."

He said Trump's videographer had been traveling backwards up the escalator to capture his arrival with First Lady Melania Trump.

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[–] Novamdomum@fedia.io 39 points 6 days ago

It doesn't get much more snowflakey than when you threaten to bomb the UN because an escalator didn't work 🤣

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 40 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Who gives a fuck?

[–] MisterCurtis@lemmy.world 63 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Clearly they do. It was enough of a controversy to warrant one of his rabid lap dogs to say:

I mean, this is an insurrection. And what we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. It is in New York though right? Could be some fallout there. Alright, maybe gas it?

Jesse Watters

So this was important enough to them to suggest bombing and gasing the U.N. over.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I know I shouldn't be surprised by how unhinged they are but they still somehow manage to shock me.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gassing the United Nations over a stuck escalator would sure take everyones' minds off of the Epistein Files for a bit though.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

to distract from the epstein files, we have made the entire continent of europe declare war on us. We are extremely intelligent.

[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 54 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He ranted about that issue that apparently one of his own minions caused.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Nothing new here.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 days ago

Trump hates being embarrassed and not having things working just for him. This should accidentally happen more often.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The fact that Trump had to use an "every-man" escalator in the first place truly shows that the U.N. is a joke. They should have driven him to his seat on a skid with forklift, the fat ugly fuck.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

winched down from the ceiling over the span of 5 minutes as everyone else sits in awkward silence, all the while trump is already in a seated posture and wearing his standard grumpy expression.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

Media needs to be mercilessly mocked for doing these, "was it sabotage?" videos.

Trump says something stupid? Sabotage.

Lies about something easily disproven? Sabotage.

Does his "jerking off two ghosts" dance? Oh, you better believe that was sabotage.