President Donald Trump demanded on Wednesday an “immediate investigation” about what he said it was “triple sabotage” during his United Nations visit on Tuesday, citing a detained mechanical ladder and a teleprompter that did not work.
“Yesterday a true misfortune in the United Nations, not one, not two, but three very sinister events!” He published on his social media platform, saying that he was sending a letter to the UN Secretary General, António Guterres.
“First, the mechanical staircase that climbed to the main floor of speaking was stopped. It stopped in a penny. It is surprising that Melania and I did not fall at the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first. It was only that each one held the handle with force or, it would have been a disaster,” he wrote.
“This was absolutely sabotage, as the previous one -day” position “in the London Times said that UN workers joked about a mechanical staircase.” The people who did it should be arrested! ” He continued.
After complaining about a second problem, how his teleprompter did not work during the first 15 minutes of his speech, he said that the audio in the General Assembly Hall has been off.
“And third, after pronouncing the speech, they told me that the sound was completely off in the auditorium where the speech was pronounced, that the world leaders, unless they used the interpreters’ headphones, could not hear anything,” he wrote. “The first person I saw at the end of the speech was Melania, who was sitting in front. I said:” How did I? “And she said:” I couldn’t hear a word you said. “This was not a coincidence, this was a triple sabotage in the UN. They should be grateful for themselves.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump and the first lady Melania Trump, conduct a mechanical staircase when they arrive to attend the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations, in the city of New York, New York, USA, UU., September 23, 2025.
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While Trump and his wife Melania went up to the mechanical staircase before their speech on Tuesday morning, he stopped moving, which led them both to stop.
The first couple then proceeded to walk the mechanical staircase.
The UN has said that there seems to have been no dirty game.
But that explanation has not satisfied the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who promised to reach the end of Tuesday’s incident.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, speaks during an informative press session at the White House in Washington, on September 22, 2025.
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“If someone from the UN intentionally stopped the mechanical staircase when the president and the first lady stepped on, needs to be dismissed and investigated immediately,” he said in an X position.
Leavitt repeated his warnings in Fox News on Tuesday night, but did not provide any evidence of what happened about the deliberate.
“I know we have people, including the United States Secret Service, who are investigating this to try to get to the bottom,” he said.
At the beginning of his direction, when his teleprompter did not work, he complained about that at that time and then later in the day.
President Donald Trump addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, on September 23, 2025.
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“The Teleprompter broke and the mechanical staircase suddenly stopped while we were going to the podium, but both events probably made the speech more interesting than it would have been different.
The United Nations issued a statement about the incident, saying that the detention of the mechanical staircase could have been triggered by a security characteristic since a cameraman was going back on the mechanical staircase, before the president, while trying to film it.
“The security mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects from being trapped and accidentally trapped in the gear. The cameraman may have inadvertently activated the security function described above,” said the UN statement.
“Our coach, who was in the location, restored the mechanical staircase as soon as the delegation had risen to the second floor. A subsequent investigation, including a reading of the central processing unit of the machine, indicated that the mechanical staircase had stopped after a safety mechanism incorporated into the PEEine passage was activated at the top of the performance of the staircase,” the UN declaration continued. “The security mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects from being trapped and accidentally trapped in the gear. The cameraman may have inadvertently activated the security function described above.”
“All safety ribbons on the mechanical ladder must be stored, especially the emergency stop button. The secret service is involved,” Trump wrote in Wednesday’s publication.
The UN has not immediately provided details about Trump Teleprompter or the Audio in the General Assembly Hall.
