By Erin Doherty
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fumed Tuesday that if anyone at the United Nations “intentionally” stopped an escalator right before President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it, “they need to be fired and investigated immediately.”
Leavitt’s demand on X came hours after an escalator at the UN abruptly halted just as the Trumps got on it shortly before he delivered a speech to the General Assembly in New York.
Leavitt’s tweet referenced a report in a British newspaper, The Times.
The paper on Sunday said that UN staff members, to mark Trump’s arrival, “have joked that they may turn off the escalators and elevators and simply tell him they ran out of money, so he has to walk up the stairs.”
The press secretary wrote, “If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately.”
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