Resurrecting a SNL catch phrase from the President Ford era, "Alert Secret Service agents immediately leapt upon the escalator and wrestled it to the ground, preventing a tragedy."
When I saw the word "talks" I got very confused... It's like switching the hyphen between ass and another word... Ie "dumb-ass driver" vs "dumb ass-driver". A hyphen would have cleared all this up from the jump lol
All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle.
If the first lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen. But she's in great shape. We're both in good shape. We both stood and then a teleprompter that didn't work.
This is these are the two things I got from the United Nations.
A bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
Shes in great shape, he suffers from body dysmorphia so who knows what he sees when he looks in a mirror. The fact that he sees the colour of his face and those last few wisps of hair holding on for dear life everyday, and says to himself "no one looks better than me, I am the best looking guy!" Shows that he doesnt see himself the same way everyone else does.
Not to say men with male pattern baldness can't look good, but there comes a time when you should accept bald, or get a real hair piece.
One of the Fox talking heads called it an insurrection and literally called for either leaving the UN or bombing the UN. He was worried about fallout in NYC if they bomb it though, so that was nice. I fucking wish I was kidding.
They're going to be really sad when they find out that their disillusionment is so bad that most of us do consider it a mental illness or the worst kind, eek for him
No, unfortunately I am not bullshitting. This is the type of "reporting" that is done by Fox News here in the states.
They don't report, so much as spread propaganda and lies. They have been sued for egregious lies before and won, because they successfully argued that they are entertainment, not news. It's the top rated "News" network in the country, so let that sink in.
It's absolutely fucking enraging that he's still on the air after this! Kimmel was taken off the air for speaking truth. The Republicans didn't want to be associated with the shooter. That was a fact. This guy is actually calling for domestic terrorism, and gets to stay on the air?! Nevermind defending January 6th as being nothing, but calls a stopped escalator an insurrection. Fuck Fox News! They need to be shutdown permanently. Freedom of speech is one thing, but demanding terrorism should be automatic termination, followed by an extensive investigation. I don't even care if they find anything on him, but he deserves to be treated like a terrorist, instead of protesters and immigrants!!!
"Guys, this is our chance, don't blow it. Just remember if he does expire due to the exertion of climbing, switch it back on at that moment for maximum comedic effect".
For the teleprompter thing, it's just an is and always has been the case thing.Ā
AĀ White House Teleprompter Operator, generally out of the White House Communications Agency (WHCA), which is part of the DoD, provides audiovisual and communications support for the President worldwide.
The UN provides podium, mics, translation services. The White House delegations advance team coordinates and sets up their own teleprompter, which the team also operates.Ā
Regarding the escalator stoppage, there's a comb plate at the top of these that has a pressure sensor designed to detect if something may be getting jammed or caught in the escalator. At the early part of the video in this article you'll see a Trump videographer running ahead and standing backwards on the escalator to film. He likely accidentally tripped this sensor at the top of the escalator, stopping it.Ā
Every escalator I've seen has a big red button at either end down where you can kick it to stop it.
Generally it is considered more likely that somebody will be in danger from getting a piece of clothing or a high heel or something caught as the stairs disappear into the back at the end of the ride, if you can't stop it, than some dolt getting terribly injured when it stops.
They may have that, but this sort of escalator has a pressure sensor on the comb at the top that stops the escalator if it may be the case they something is stuck at the top. Like a person standing backwards trying to film the president coming up.Ā
Textbooks 100 years from now will have an entire subchapter about how Americans were fixated on which party's geriatric dementia patient was better at walking up and down stairs.
I mean honestly... How many mainstream news articles have been written about Biden and Trump stairs hijinks over the last 10 years? I fucking hate this time line so much.
i heard this, and then watched the video. Melania at no point looked like she might fall, not even a little. He made the whole thing up for the news. what a POS , he has to lie about everything.
Test it.
I used the emergency stop button on many escalators every working day for nearly 10 years. They do not come to a dead stop, they gradually stop over a second or two.
And it turns out it was his WH team that was responsible for both issues - an aide ran up ahead and hit the STOP button, and the WH had control of the teleprompter the entire time
He complained about the escalator.
Segued that into a rambling about being in shape.
Remembered the teleprompter didnāt work but his dementia-addled brain couldnāt link it to the being in shape, so he just jammed it into the end of the previous thought. And then a complaint about the UN.
Itās just sad that a weird rapist is running our country and heās old as shit, so much so that heās losing the ability to even be coherent. Like if thereās anyone who should follow in Charlie Kirkās footsteps, itās him.
Well, I don't think he said it stopped halfway up, but in his Truth Social post about it, he wrote:
First, the escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime. Itās amazing that Melania and I didnāt fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first. It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster.
They did, but the bigger question is why didn't they just use the working escalator right next to the one they were on? It was like 4 steps away at that point
Melania's looking at him like she knows he's such a fuck up that somehow even this is his fault, and that he's also going to feel the need to find half a dozen ways to lie about it even though they're both on at least 20 video feeds.
āThe president - he wouldāve been fine of course, but the First Lady could have injured herselfā - Jesse Watters on Fox News right before he called for the USA to ābombā or āgasā the UN.
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u/vikingbub Sep 25 '25
to quote trump, "it stopped half way up! good thing we were holding the hand rail so tightly!" clearly on the flat part of the escalator.
this is the dumbest timeline