Trump claims ‘sabotage’ at U.N. from escalator, teleprompter and mic

President Donald Trump connected Wednesday said that helium was the unfortunate of a "triple sabotage" astatine the United Nations a time earlier, wherever an escalator, teleprompter and microphone each failed to enactment for him.

"A REAL DISGRACE took spot astatine the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but 3 precise sinister events!" Trump wrote successful a station connected Truth Social.

"This wasn't a coincidence, this was triple sabotage astatine the UN," wrote Trump, whose station was tweeted by the White House.

Trump, who said helium was sending his station to the U.N.'s caput wide to request an investigation, wrote that an escalator helium and First Lady Melania Trump were boarding astatine the U.N. connected Tuesday "came to a screeching halt" arsenic helium headed to marque a code to the General Assembly.

 "It stopped connected a dime. It's astonishing that Melania and I didn't autumn guardant onto the crisp edges of these alloy steps, look first," Trump wrote. "It was lone that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would person been a disaster."

"All information tapes astatine the escalator should beryllium saved, particularly the exigency halt button. The Secret Service is involved," helium wrote.

Then, Trump's teleprompter did not enactment for the archetypal information of that speech, forcing him to work from insubstantial for 15 minutes until the instrumentality kicked in.

"The bully quality is the Speech has gotten fantastic reviews," Trump wrote. "Maybe they appreciated the information that precise fewer radical could person done what I did."

But unluckily for immoderate radical successful the room, the president noted, "after making the Speech, I was told that the dependable was wholly disconnected successful the Auditorium wherever the Speech was made."

"World Leaders, unless they utilized the interpreters' earpieces, couldn't perceive a thing," Trump wrote.

"The archetypal idiosyncratic I saw astatine the decision of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting close up front. I said, 'How did I do?' "

"And she said, 'I couldn't perceive a connection you said.'"

A UN authoritative told the Associated Press connected Tuesday that a idiosyncratic traveling with Trump inadvertently deed the halt lever connected the escalator.

Trump's station connected Wednesday noted that The Times, a British newspaper, implicit the play reported that U.N. employees "joked astir turning disconnected an escalator" earlier his quality there.

"The radical that did it should beryllium arrested!, Trump wrote.

"I'm sending a transcript of this missive to the Secretary General, and I request an contiguous investigation," Trump wrote.

"No wonderment the United Nations hasn't been capable to bash the occupation that they were enactment successful beingness to do."