Right as he started his speech before the UN General Assembly Donald Trump admitted he was going to be forced to read from his notes, after a teleprompter broke down.
And before he’d even taken to the podium, Trump had to contend with a broken escalator, which stopped just as soon as he and his wife Melania Trump had set foot on it.
Trump referenced the mishap during his speech, saying: “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle.”
“If the first lady wasn’t in great shape she would have fallen,” he said. “These are the two things I got from the United Nations; a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.”
In a video posted to social media which shows Trump on the broken escalator, the US president is then greeted by UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed, who promises to have it fixed.
The teleprompter, too, began working again during the US president’s speech.