The United Nations General Assembly was briefly transformed into a slapstick comedy routine this week after former President Donald Trump was left stranded at the bottom of a motionless escalator, only to deliver a speech from a teleprompter that displayed scrambled text resembling a ransom note.
Witnesses said Trump stood frozen on the broken escalator for nearly three minutes, demanding staff “make the thing go down like last time.” When aides finally escorted him upstairs, the teleprompter betrayed him with garbled phrases such as “covfefe diplomacy” and “insert applause here.”
Officials later confirmed the mishaps weren’t sabotage by foreign powers, but a technical blunder by Trump’s own advance team, who reportedly confused the “power” button with “reset to chaos.”
The incident drew laughter across the diplomatic hall. One ambassador whispered, “This is the first time America’s foreign policy has been perfectly translated into performance art.”
