Updated September 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM MST

When President Trump arrived at the United Nations this week to address the General Assembly, his entrance didn't go as planned.

A video widely shared on social media shows Trump and first lady Melania Trump stepping onto an escalator that suddenly stops working. After a pause, Trump looked around as the first lady began walking up the steps.

"All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle," Trump joked later in his speech , adding that if the first lady weren't in such good shape, she would have fallen. He later said it was "sabotage."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X : "If someone at the U.N. intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were

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