Overview

• Opening his UN General Assembly address in New York, President Trump told delegates the teleprompter was not working and said speaking without it lets one “speak more from the heart.”
• He joked that “whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble,” drawing laughter in the hall.
• Roughly 10 minutes in, he noted the teleprompter had started working but indicated he might stick with prepared pages in a binder instead.
• He used the moment to fault the UN for not living up to its “tremendous potential” and mocked the building’s condition, citing a broken escalator on his way in.
• Clips of the exchange were widely shared online and featured in news coverage, including an embedded video circulated by a social media account cited by News18.