Throughout “The Five,” Watters claimed UN staffers “sabotaged” the escalator — which stopped when the president and Melania Trump stepped onto it, forcing them to stroll up the steps — and the teleprompter, which lower out in the beginning of Trump’s speech, resulting in complaints from the president throughout his tackle.
“These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,” he mentioned. “Thank you very much.”
“I can only say that whoever’s operating this teleprompter is in big trouble,” the president mentioned
Watters characterised the scenario as “an insurrection and what we need to do is either leave the U.N. or we need to bomb it.”
“It’s in New York, though, right? Could be some fallout there. Maybe gas it?” Watters, 47, continued whereas his co-hosts could possibly be heard laughing.
“Don’t gas it. OK, but we need to destroy it. Maybe can we demolish the building?” Watters continued. “Have everybody leave and then we’ll demolish the building.”
“No, this is absolutely unacceptable, and I hope they get to the bottom of it, and I hope they really injure, emotionally, the people that did it.”
The UN mentioned later Tuesday that each points had been the results of Trump’s staff.
Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric mentioned in an announcement {that a} videographer went forward of the Trumps on the escalator and inadvertently triggered a built-in security mechanism that stopped the escalator.
“The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing.”
The escalator was efficiently reset after the delegation climbed to the second flooring.
“Regarding the teleprompter, we have no comment since the teleprompter for the US president is operated by the White House,” Dujarric mentioned.
Initially Revealed: September 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM EDT
