The White House has called on the UN to verify the incident with the shutdown of the escalator with Trump

The United States has called on the United Nations (UN) to investigate the shutdown of the escalator while US President Donald Trump was on it. This was announced on September 23 by White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt.

"If someone at the United Nations intentionally stopped the escalator when the president and first lady were boarding it, they should be fired immediately and an investigation should be conducted," she wrote on Twitter. Twitter).

In addition, she cited an article by The Times, which claimed that UN staff joked among themselves that they could turn off the escalator and force the US president to climb the stairs. They planned to explain this to Trump by saying that, against the background of the US government's decision to reduce contributions to the UN, the organization simply ran out of money to function normally.

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On September 23, Trump accused the United Nations of waste during a speech at the 80th session of the General Assembly. The US President shared the story of how many years ago he participated in a tender for the reconstruction of the UN building complex, but the project turned out to be a failure. In addition, he stated that the two things he managed to get from the organization were a broken escalator and a broken teleprompter.

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