According to U.S. Cable News Network (CNN), U.S. Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC), a "small incident" occurred that day, when U.S. President Trump entered the United Nations headquarters building in New York, the ladder of the building suddenly stopped operating.

Based on the above-mentioned US media reports, White House Press Secretary Levitt wrote "angrily" on social platform X on the 23rd, "If someone in the United Nations deliberately prevents the escalator from running when the president and first lady step on it, they should be immediately dismissed and investigated".

She also attached a snapshot of a report from the British Times, which said on Sunday that UN staff had joked that they could turn off automatic lifts and elevators to tell Trump that the United Nations had ¡°no money.¡±

According to a Bloomberg report on the 22nd local time, the United Nations said that since US President Trump took office in January this year, the United States has almost stopped paying dues, and there are still outstanding arrears for 2024. The United States owes more than $3 billion in arrears, including more than $820 million in regular budget shares due in 2025, as well as arrears and unpaid peacekeeping funds in previous years.

According to the Associated Press, a U.N. official said it was a person who ran in front of him with Trump's companion and accidentally struck the stop button on the automatic ladder. In addition, during Trump's speech at the U.N. General Assembly on the 23rd, the vocabulary also failed.