Trump claims sabotage at U.N. from escalator, teleprompter and mic

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he was the victim of a “triple sabotage” at the United Nations a day earlier, where an escalator, teleprompter and microphone all failed to work for him.

“A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but three very sinister events!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, which was reposted on X by the White House.

“This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN.”

Trump, who said he was sending his post to the U.N.’s secretary general to demand an investigation, noted that an escalator he and First Lady Melania Trump were boarding at the U.N. on Tuesday abruptly stopped as he headed to make a speech to the General Assembly.

Then, Trump’s teleprompter did not work for the first portion of that speech.

“And third, after making the Speech, I was told that the sound was completely off in the Auditorium where the Speech was made, that World Leaders, unless they used the interpreters’ earpieces, couldn’t hear a thing,” Trump wrote.

“The first person I saw at the conclusion of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting right up front. I said, ‘How did I do?’ And she said, ‘I couldn’t hear a word you said.'”

A UN official told the Associated Press on Tuesday that a person traveling with Trump inadvertently hit the stop lever on the escalator.

Trump’s post on Wednesday noted that The Times, a British newspaper, over the weekend reported that U.N. employees “joked about turning off an escalator” before his appearance there.

“The people that did it should be arrested!, Trump wrote.

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