Overview

• An escalator at UN headquarters stalled as President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped on, prompting them to walk up the stopped steps.
• The teleprompter did not display Trump’s prepared text at the start of his General Assembly address before coming back on, which he remarked upon from the podium.
• UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said a safety mechanism was inadvertently triggered by someone ahead of the president and that the escalator was reset shortly afterward.
• UN representative Farhan Aziz Haq told Entertainment Weekly the White House, not the UN, was responsible for operating the teleprompter used for the speech.
• Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt urged an investigation into any intentional act, with no public evidence of sabotage presented, and some coverage also noted a brief switch of the UN broadcast audio to a foreign-language feed.