The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after Donald Trump stepped onto it on Tuesday - his videographer may have accidentally triggered a safety mechanism.

U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said a readout of the escalator’s central processing unit indicated it “had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator.”

He said Trump’s videographer had been traveling backwards up the escalator to capture his arrival with First Lady Melania Trump.

  • ripcord@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Because they immediately blamed conspirators from “the left” and the UN (that huge group of our enemies).

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      12 hours ago

      I hear they found a screwdriver near the elevator with radical far left writing on it.