President Donald Trump is demanding an investigation following what he described as a “triple sabotage” during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, taking to social media to claim that a series of technical mishaps, involving a stopped escalator, a teleprompter failure and audio issues, were deliberate acts meant to undermine him.
“A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but three very sinister events!” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday laying out the series of events.
During his speech on Tuesday morning in New York, Trump opened by referencing the technical issues, saying, “These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.” The president elaborated further in his social media post, introducing the issue of “completely off” audio.
UN Secretary General spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement Wednesday evening: “The Secretary-General informed the US Permanent Mission that he had already ordered a thorough investigation, and he conveyed that the UN is ready to cooperate in full transparency with relevant US authorities on this matter to determine what caused the incidents referred to by the United States.”
The president’s petty grievances are reflective of his general hostilities towards the international body, whose efficacy he questioned repeatedly this week. “No wonder the United Nations hasn’t been able to do the job that they were put in existence to do,” Trump said in his post as he criticized the technical problems.
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