United States President, Donald Trump has called for arrests after an escalator at the United Nations Headquarters abruptly stop working on Tuesday as he and First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it.
The sudden escalator outage, which nearly caused the First Lady to fall, was the first of at least three disruptions the 79-year-old President claimed to have notice during his visit to address world leaders and diplomats at the UN General Assembly in New York.
“A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday – Not one, not two, but three very sinister events!”, Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“First, the escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to the screeching halt. It stopped on a dime. It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t fall forward onto sharp edges of these steel steps, face first. It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster”, the President continued. Video footage showed Melania Trump visibly jerking forward when the mechine stopped.
Trump alleged the escalator incident was “absolutely sabotage”, citing a Times of London report that UN staffers had been overheard joking about switching off the escalator to force him to walk.
“The people that did it should be arrested!”, the President fumed, demand in an “immediate investigation” and the preservation of “all security stop button”. He added that the Secret Service is involved.
A UN spokesperson, Stephanie Dujarric, suggested that s member of the US delegation may have inadvertent triggered the stop.
