cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36393932

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.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    Media needs to be mercilessly mocked for doing these, “was it sabotage?” videos.

    Trump says something stupid? Sabotage.

    Lies about something easily disproven? Sabotage.

    Does his “jerking off two ghosts” dance? Oh, you better believe that was sabotage.

    • MisterCurtis@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Clearly they do. It was enough of a controversy to warrant one of his rabid lap dogs to say:

      I mean, this is an insurrection. And what we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. It is in New York though right? Could be some fallout there. Alright, maybe gas it?

      • Jesse Watters

      So this was important enough to them to suggest bombing and gasing the U.N. over.

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        I know I shouldn’t be surprised by how unhinged they are but they still somehow manage to shock me.

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          Gassing the United Nations over a stuck escalator would sure take everyones’ minds off of the Epistein Files for a bit though.

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    It doesn’t get much more snowflakey than when you threaten to bomb the UN because an escalator didn’t work 🤣

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    Trump hates being embarrassed and not having things working just for him. This should accidentally happen more often.

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    The fact that Trump had to use an “every-man” escalator in the first place truly shows that the U.N. is a joke. They should have driven him to his seat on a skid with forklift, the fat ugly fuck.