{"id":8886,"date":"2025-11-11T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8886"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:56:13","slug":"trump-demands-investigation-after-escalator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8886","title":{"rendered":"Trump Demands Investigation After Escalator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Trump Escalator Mishap at UN Sparks Investigation and Jokes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were briefly stranded Tuesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when an escalator stopped at UN headquarters just before Trump\u2019s address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt demanded an inquiry, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIf someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>they need to be fired and investigated immediately.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She later told Fox News the incident&nbsp;<strong>\u201cappears to be sabotage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN officials denied any foul play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spokesman St\u00e9phane Dujarric explained the stoppage occurred when a videographer walking backward triggered a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cbuilt-in safety mechanism on the comb step,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;stressing there was&nbsp;<strong>\u201cnothing nefarious\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump joked about the event in his speech, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cAll I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle,\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and quipped that Melania\u2019s fitness saved them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also poked fun at a frozen teleprompter before resuming his UN criticism,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>accusing the organization of creating&nbsp;<strong>\u201cnew problems.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Escalator Mishap at UN Sparks Investigation and Jokes President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were briefly stranded Tuesday when an escalator stopped at UN headquarters just before Trump\u2019s address. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt demanded an inquiry, saying, \u201cIf someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator\u2026 they need to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8888,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions\/8888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}