The White House has suggested that UN staffers were behind a broken escalator that forced U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to climb it on foot.

Ahead of his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump ran into trouble entering the building after an escalator stopped working.

He later complained about the issue during his one-hour speech, meant to last 15 minutes, and the fact that his teleprompter wasn’t working at the start of the assembly.

Donald and Melania Trump had to walk up a broken escalator

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt quickly addressed the issue on X, pointing to an article in The Times that suggested UN staffers could sabotage and humiliate Trump.

“To mark Trump’s arrival, UN staff members have joked that they may

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