The White Home on Tuesday afternoon demanded an investigation amid studies UN staffers deliberately stopped the escalator as President Trump and First Woman Melania have been stepping on in a serious safety breach.
“If somebody on the UN deliberately stopped the escalator because the President and First Woman have been stepping on, they should be fired and investigated instantly,” White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned together with a report that UN staffers could flip off the escalators to make Trump stroll up the steps.
If somebody on the UN deliberately stopped the escalator because the President and First Woman have been stepping on, they should be fired and investigated instantly.
The Instances reported this on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/NitsWbGYG0
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) September 23, 2025
President Trump returned to the United Nations Normal Meeting stage in New York Metropolis for a serious handle to the Normal Meeting on Tuesday.
The President and First Woman Melania Trump arrived at roughly 8:50 am.
As TGP reported earlier, First Woman Melania and President Trump walked by means of the constructing and stepped on an escalator that was surrounded by folks. There have been two escalators going as much as the subsequent flooring. Melania Trump stepped on the escalator on the left adopted by President Trump. As quickly as President Trump stepped on the escalator it got here to a halt. Nevertheless, the escalator on the best continued to function.
Melania reacted rapidly and began strolling up the escalator stairs adopted by President Trump and his entourage.
That is insane…
As Trump arrived to the UN, the escalator stopped working the second he stepped on it.
Then the teleprompter stopped working the second he bought as much as the rostrum to talk. pic.twitter.com/XBTgfr6zJ8
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) September 23, 2025
Secret Service sources instructed RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree that it is rather regarding that President Trump was “stalled and weak.”
“Sources within the Secret Service group are very involved about what they witnessed from fellow brokers in the present day when President Trump was stalled and weak. It’s an analogous critique to the Secret Service’s delayed response in getting Trump off stage after a bullet grazed his ear on July 13,” Susan Crabtree mentioned.
Why did the @SecretService permit Pres. Trump and Melania to get stalled on an escalator in the present day on the @UN Normal Meeting earlier than his speech with out transferring rapidly to guard the chief of the free world and his spouse?
The stalled escalator with President Trump and first woman… https://t.co/mFvxGVXDQN
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) September 23, 2025
Karoline Leavitt mentioned the Secret Service is investigating the escalator state of affairs.
“If we discover that these have been UN staffers who have been purposefully making an attempt to journey up President Trump and FLOTUS properly, there higher be accountability for these folks,” she mentioned.
BREAKING: The Secret Service has launched an investigation into the escalator state of affairs on the United Nations in the present day, per Karoline Leavitt
If somebody did this deliberately, they need to be CRIMINALLY charged.
It put President Trump is a VERY compromising place.
“If we… pic.twitter.com/nHJW36wCCx
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 24, 2025
