Day Two of Escalator Gate. It's looking like they're gonna run with this, people.

[senseandsensibility]

Orders to keep whining about the escalator malfunction at the UN must be coming from the top. Leavitt and others have already weighed in, and now lower level maga congressmen are trying to score political points by keeping it going.

Today Rep. Greg Steube said: "Thankfully the first lady and the president had their hands on the rails that were going up the escalator, or they likely would've fallen down and injured themselves. It seems intentional...I don't know why we're still part of the UN."

Are they really going to try to use this to press charges against someone? As an excuse to leave the UN? The way things are going, who knows?

[niyad]

1. RELEASE THE TRUMPSTEIN FILES!!!

[Clouds Passing]

30. I second this!

[maxsolomon]

2. Dotard McNarcissist is a Bircher's dream come true.

The UN should start planning to move the General Assembly to Geneva.

[NCDem47]

36. THIS!

I mean, keep the NYC real estate for something, but have the grownups move the important discussions and speeches to Switzerland. Can't give MAGA the satisfaction the UN was run out of town (they would loooove that afterall).

[Deuxcents]

3. After a big whiney display, he's gotta keep up the drama for his base

[Irish_Dem]

6. I think he is trying to deflect from his speech which everyone is making fun of.

[senseandsensibility]

11. You may be right

but that would show some self awareness. My theory is that he does not hear any negative opinions about anything he does and his staff fall all over themselves all day to tell him how popular he is.

[Irish_Dem]

34. We know he gets some glimpses of reality by how he lashes out about things.

Sometimes he is furious about what people are saying or doing.
So he is getting some taste of current events.

[B.See]

31. Anything and EVERYTHING to

stir up and inflame his cult of fanatics, especially since it distracts from his FAILING economy, FAILING foreign policies, shredding of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and America's social safety nets,

his continuous PROFITEERING from the office, his UNDERMINING of our healthcare,

and EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN.

Plus side being, maybe his lemmings, spin doctors, and yes men will THEMSELVES be sufficiently distracted as to not realize the shifting voter trends happening, esp. in swing states.

So go right ahead and keep trying to blow smoke up people's bums while you DUCK OUT OF TOWN HALLS.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Are they trying to say this was an assassination attempt?

[senseandsensibility]

5. Implying at least

it seems to me, anyway. Didn't someone call it sabotage yesterday?

[Irish_Dem]

7. Just when I think Trump cannot look more crazy, he surprises me.

[BlueKota]

9. He always manages to top himself.

[Irish_Dem]

12. We have to give him credit for always outdoing himself.

[Wiz Imp]

40. The Lie Machine Press Secretary said it was sabotage

and most of MAGA dutifully have followed the script.

[GreenWave]

13. Wait til AI erupts against him.

[Wiz Imp]

39. Yes. Many MAGAs are saying that. Never mind that it makes zero sense.

They say it made him a stationary target ignoring that he was inside one of the most secure buildings in the world. Just proving again how stupid they are.

[Irish_Dem]

41. Their victimhood claims are getting very old.

Such crybabies.

[BlueKota]

8. 🤦‍♀️

Just when you think they can't drive they drive the clown car any further, they step on the gas and keep going.

[Ping Tung]

10. The congressman needs to tone down his blatant asskissing or at least blush

when performing it.

[Skittles]

45. yes

I wonder if this is what his lifelong goal was, to kiss the ass of a thoroughly disgusting idiotic dictator-wannabe, WTF is WRONG with these people

[58Sunliner]

14. Someone tripped the sensor.

"The United Nations issued a statement about the incident, saying that the escalator stopping might have been triggered by a safety feature as a videographer was standing backward on the escalator, ahead of the president, while trying to film him."
They already know this. "I'm a victim!!!!!!!"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/responds-trump-escalator-malfunction/story?id=125885502

[Orrex]

15. It's a shame that he wasn't crushed and mutilated horribly

[DBoon]

29. why would you want to destroy an escalator in such a horrible fashion ?

[Orrex]

44. Oh, I just meant "crushed and mutilated" in a general sense

Doesn't have to be an escalator. Woodchipper would be fine, combine harvester, meatpacking apparatus, etc.

[ornotna]

16. Greg Steube is a scumbag

[Frasier Balzov]

17. Allen Spence is the Democrat running in FL-17.

https://www.spence2026.com/about

[progressoid]

18. More talking about an escalator means less time for Epstein.

[cornball 24]

19. AHA! Perhaps the escalator malfunctioned because that's where the EPSTEIN

FILES are hidden! Dumpy knew it and was afraid they would be revealed so he made that Olympian challenge of climbing the stairs.

[tanyev]

20. If the UN's version that it was Trump's videographer is true,

and it most likely is, there must be video of who that was and when it happened. Release the tapes!

[Cha]

21. BULLSHIT... it was ALL Traitor's Fault.

[Katinfl]

22. If I were not living this nonsense, I would never believe it.

Every day someone is out to get him, or so he thinks.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

23. I wouldn't put it past Been A Dick Donald instructing one of his toadys

to purposely stop the escalator just as him and his wife stepped onto it so he could try to distract from the Epstein files and give him something else to rant and rave about, but, so far, it seems to not be working.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. MaddowBlog-The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator 'controversy'

Some Republicans suggested the U.N. had targeted Donald Trump with an escalator malfunction. Evidently, the truth was more benign.

The rapid rise and sudden fall of the United Nations escalator ‘controversy’ www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Margie (@paeznyc.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T21:18:52.855Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rapid-rise-sudden-fall-united-nation-escalator-controversy-rcna233450

During his ridiculous address to the U.N. General Assembly, Donald Trump covered quite a bit of ground, but his speech included a curious reference to, of all things, an escalator......

Evidently, the truth was more benign. NBC News reported:

The United Nations has concluded its one-day investigation into the mysterious halting of President Donald Trump’s escalator Tuesday as he arrived at the U.N. General Assembly. The accidental culprit? A White House videographer who most likely tripped a safety mechanism.

A U.N. spokesperson explained: “The escalator had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator. The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing. The [White House] videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function described above.”.....

All of this, of course, came before the public learned that it was a White House videographer that apparently triggered the escalator’s safety measures.

Kevin Kruse, a historian at Princeton University, noted soon after: “This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism — because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up.”

This is getting silly

[2MuchNoise]

25. So damn stupid! What actually happened...

The escalator shut down because it exceeded its weight limit when donny stepped on it.

[SSJVegeta]

26. What terrible people to force such a decripit old helpless invalid

...to walk!

[Jilly_in_VA]

27. They can run with it all they like, BUT

After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump’s team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter

Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.

“The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric said in a statement. “The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function.”

As he began his speech, Trump also noted that the teleprompter wasn’t working. He joked that whoever was running the teleprompter “is in big trouble.”

A U.N. official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue contributed that one to his side as well, saying the White House was operating the teleprompter for the president.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-un-escalator-teleprompter-ddfc0875301f29d71625b353f2c2f832

So there so now, ya bunch of eejit amadons!

[struggle4progress]

28. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose

[ThoughtCriminal]

32. This is PURELY for his base

and boy-howdy, they are the dumbest clods on Earth. I have to wonder about what it must be like to be a FOX propagandist and have to pretend that this is a story and humiliate themselves. Or maybe they are brain-damaged enough think it is.

That they are letting this churn for another few news cycles is a blend of insanity and desperation.

[SheltieLover]

33. EPSTEIN, MAXWELL, & MALARIA

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. Here are some proper responses to this trump silliness

I like the Onion's suggestion

Link to tweet

[TBF]

37. They'll talk about anything to avoid EPSTEIN FILES

Release them, unredacted!

[Hey Joe]

38. Unbelievable weakness

For a manbaby who talks so tough and is forever badmouthing others for his own stupidity and ignorance this is rich indeed.
He has to be the most cartoonishly frail and weak little bitch I have ever witnessed in my entire life.
Never thought that a grown-ass man could ever be this nauseatingly feeble. Does he travel with a fainting couch?

[BlueKota]

42. Whomever said escalators always work

has never been to the one at the Barnes and Noble closest to where I live. That has been broken on and off for the past 2 years. Walking up isn't bad. But climbing down it always scares me because I think I am going to trip and fall and knock everyone ahead of me down. 😅

[doc03]

43. The local Boscovs store has an escalator, it breaks quite offten and I have seen

several customers trip and fall getting on or off it over the years. The thing is almost a half century old, they
break like any other mechanical device.