U.S. President Donald Trump seems to be not going slow against the UN, which he now terms “triple sabotage."
He took to Truth Social platform and posted a lengthy scathing attack on the UN, demanding an immediate inquiry into the triple trouble he had to confront during his address to the UN General Assembly’s 80th session on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.
Trump detailed the events that happened during his UNGA address; he wrote, ”A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday… Not one, not two, but three very sinister events.”
He continued to detail what he called “sinister events.” “First, the escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime."
"It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t 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.”
Trump referred to the escalator stall as a sabotage attempt while pointing to a British publication article that appeared in The London Times and demanded an arrest of individuals involved.
“This was absolutely sabotage, as noted by a day’s earlier ‘post’ in The London Times that said UN workers ‘joked about turning off an escalator.’ The people that did it should be arrested!”
The White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt yesterday, on September 24, 2025, had also shared on X the screenshot of the said article that Trump has mentioned in his letter to the UN Secretary General. The said post has so far amassed over 23 million views.
Then, Donald Trump went on to narrate the second trouble, saying, “Then, as I stood before a Television crowd of millions of people all over the World, and important Leaders in the Hall, my teleprompter didn’t work. It was stone-cold dark. I immediately thought to myself, ‘Wow, first the escalator event, and now a bad teleprompter. What kind of a place is this?’
"I then proceeded to make a speech without a teleprompter, which kicked in about 15 minutes later. The good news is the speech has gotten fantastic reviews. Maybe they appreciated the fact that very few people could have done what I did.”
Donald Trump then came to the third trouble, he continued, “And third, after making the Speech, I was told that the sound was completely off in the Auditorium where the Speech was made, that World Leaders, unless they used they used the interpreter’s earpieces, couldn’t hear a thing.”
The first person I saw at the conclusion of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting right up front. I said, ‘How did I do?’ and she said, "I couldn’t hear a word you said."
Then, Trump concluded the post with a call for a UN investigation into the ‘triple sabotage’ attempt, writing, ”This wasn’t a coincidence; this was triple sabotage at the UN. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. I’m sending a copy of this letter to secretary general, and I demand an immediate investigation."
In response to Donald Trump’s lengthy post of triple sabotage at the UNGA, the UN Secretary General spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, told BBCthat “the White House was operating the teleprompter at the time, bringing their own laptops and plugging them into the UN’s system and Trump's videographer "may have inadvertently triggered the safety button while filming the couple."
While in response to Trump’s comments on the audio mic mishap, the UN official claimed, “The sound system was designed to allow people at their seats to hear speeches being translated into six different languages through earpieces.”