U.S. President Donald Trump and first girl Melania Trump arrive for the eightieth session of the UN’s Common Meeting (UNGA) on Sept. 23, 2025 in New York Metropolis.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday stated that he was the sufferer of a “triple sabotage” on the United Nations a day earlier, the place an escalator, teleprompter and microphone all did not work for him.
“A REAL DISGRACE came about on the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, however three very sinister occasions!” Trump wrote in a submit on Truth Social.
“This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage on the UN,” wrote Trump, whose submit was tweeted by the White House.
Trump, who stated he was sending his submit to U.N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to demand an investigation, wrote that an escalator he and First Woman Melania Trump had been boarding on the U.N. on Tuesday “got here to a screeching halt” as he headed to make a speech to the Common Meeting.
“It stopped on a dime. It is superb that Melania and I did not fall ahead onto the sharp edges of those metal steps, face first,” Trump wrote. “It was solely that we had been every holding the handrail tightly or, it could have been a catastrophe.”
“All safety tapes on the escalator must be saved, particularly the emergency cease button. The Secret Service is concerned,” he wrote.
U.S. President Donald Trump (C) and first girl Melania Trump (R) stroll up an escalator as they arrive to the eightieth session of the UN’s Common Meeting (UNGA) on the United Nations headquarters on September 23, 2025 in New York Metropolis.
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Then, Trump’s teleprompter didn’t work for the primary portion of that speech, forcing him to learn from paper for quarter-hour till the machine kicked in.
“The excellent news is the Speech has gotten implausible opinions,” Trump wrote. “Possibly they appreciated the truth that only a few individuals might have accomplished what I did.”
However sadly for some individuals within the room, the president famous, “after making the Speech, I used to be instructed that the sound was utterly off within the Auditorium the place the Speech was made.”
“World Leaders, until they used the interpreters’ earpieces, could not hear a factor,” Trump wrote.
“The primary individual I noticed on the conclusion of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting proper up entrance. I stated, ‘How did I do?’ “
“And he or she stated, ‘I could not hear a phrase you stated.'”
A UN official instructed the Related Press on Tuesday that an individual touring with Trump inadvertently hit the cease lever on the escalator.
Trump’s submit on Wednesday famous that The Instances, a British newspaper, over the weekend reported that U.N. workers “joked about turning off an escalator” earlier than his look there.
“The those that did it must be arrested!, Trump wrote.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the eightieth United Nations Common Meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York Metropolis, U.S., September 23, 2025.
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“I am sending a duplicate of this letter to the Secretary Common, and I demand a direct investigation,” Trump wrote.
“No surprise the United Nations hasn’t been in a position to do the job that they had been put in existence to do.”
Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for Secretary-Common Guterres, in a press release late Wednesday, stated, “This night, the Secretary-Common acquired correspondence from the Everlasting Mission of the USA to the United Nations concerning occasions that transpired throughout President Trump’s go to to UN headquarters on 23 September.”
“The Secretary-Common knowledgeable the US Everlasting Mission that he had already ordered a radical investigation, and he conveyed that the UN is able to cooperate in full transparency with related US authorities on this matter to find out what prompted the incidents referred to by the USA,” Dujarric stated.
