According to Reuters, the United Nations said it has identified the cause of the sudden shutdown of the automatic ladder at U.S. headquarters in New York: his accompanying camera may have accidentally triggered the security device.
The 80th General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly opened on September 23, when Trump jokingly complained about the matter and claimed that the vocabulary he used in his speech was broken, saying: “There are only two things I got from the United Nations – a bad automatic ladder and a bad vocabulary.”
White House press secretary Levitt, however, did not look at the matter with ease, but with a strong attitude on the social network X post: “If someone in the United Nations deliberately stopped running when the president and the first lady climbed the automatic ladder, they should be immediately fired and investigated.”
U.N. Secretary-General spokesman Stephen Dugarick said equipment records showed that the ladder stopped working at its top “after the built-in security device was triggered.” he noted that the U.S. president’s accompanying camera was falling on the automatic ladder at the time, and that the screenshot camera in front of shooting the Trump couple when they arrived at the U.N. headquarters may have unintentionally triggered a security device designed to prevent people or objects from accidentally getting involved or trapped in the gear,” Dugarick said in a statement.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment after the United Nations gave an explanation.
Reuters mentioned that regarding the "malfunction" of the teleprompter, Trump demanded that those responsible be punished in his speech: "All I can say is that the person operating this teleprompter is in big trouble." However, UN officials said that the teleprompter used by Trump was brought by the White House. After the speech, Annalena Baerbock, president of the United Nations General Assembly and former German Foreign Minister, confirmed: "The teleprompter of the United Nations is working well."