The escalation of the escalator continues to climb.
President Donald Trump demanded an investigation into what he called a “triple sabotage” in the United Nations General Assembly, including his unleated allegation according to which an escalator was deliberately interrupted while he and the first lady Melania Trump mounted him.
The UN says that the escalator was probably arrested when a white house videographer accidentally triggered a safety mechanism. Nevertheless, secretary general António Guterres said on Wednesday evening that he had ordered an “in -depth investigation” on the three incidents mentioned by Trump, and was “ready to cooperate in full transparency” to discover what caused them.
It came after Trump published a 358 -words complaint on the truth, the social details “three very sinister events”.
Aside from the question of the escalator, he saw the malicious defects with his telepromitative and his audio during his speech to the Assembly, in which he had initially highlighted the problems and said to the Western nations “your countries go to hell” on immigration.
“It was not a coincidence, it was a triple sabotage at the UN,” wrote Trump. “They should be ashamed of themselves. I send a copy of this letter to the secretary general, and I ask for an immediate investigation. ”
In what has become a back and forth between the White House and the General Assembly, Stéphane Dujarric, the United Nations spokesperson, detailed the sequence of the events that caused the traveleror.
“A reading of the central unit for the processing of the machine indicated that the escalator had stopped after an integrated safety mechanism” “was” triggered at the top of the escalator “, probably by the white house videographer who was mounted in front of the president and the first lady, declared Dujarric. This security mechanism” is designed to prevent people or accidentally captured and stuck objects. he said.
It did not seem to satisfy Trump, who described the escalator as having “screaming”.
“He stopped on a penny. It is incredible that Melania and I did not fall forward on the sharp edges of these steel steel steps, first face,” he wrote. “It is only that we each hold the handrail or, it would have been a disaster.”
He referred to the reports in the British Journal of Sunday Times, who said that the UN staff had heard of the deactivation of the mechanical stairs and elevators of the building to highlight a funding deficit caused by the White House cuts. This report was not confirmed by NBC News.
“It was absolutely a sabotage,” said Trump, adding that the secret services were now involved. “The people who did it should be arrested!”
The diatribe is only the last demonstration of hostility from Trump and his supporters towards the UN and other world bodies of this type.
During an extraordinary speech on Tuesday, he accused the United Nations of leading a “globalist migration program” and of “finishing an assault against Western countries and their borders”, adding that “the UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create and finance them”.
