Yes, President Grievance went to the United Nations and was completely unhinged. And this was on top of the autism press conference where it seemed he had plumbed new depths of weirdness.
But it was what happened after the speech that was the danger. See, while he was busy with pleading his case for a Nobel Peace Prize, he didn’t realize how stupid he looked when the escalator he was just about to ride suddenly stopped. But once he saw the footage and that everyone was (still) laughing at him, he lost it.
He started posting through it, claiming someone tried to hurt him via the escalator, that someone tried to sabotage his teleprompter, and that his microphone wasn’t on so no one could hear him unless they were listening to a translator (one of his people tripped the emergency stop, his own staff were operating it, and lucky them). Fine. That’s what a giant spoiled brat does.
But it’s not enough for President Grievance to post and for people to assuage his sad feelings. Every instance of discomfort in his life now must be met by a brigade of Super MAGAts, who embroider every detail until it reaches true epic status of how he was a brave boy in the middle of danger.
Maria Bartiromo: "And then the sabotage efforts! Him going on the escalator and the escalator stops, the teleprompter going down. What went on yesterday at the UN General Assembly, congressman?"
Sabotage! Sounds so exciting!
Fox & Friends: "You secure the button if you have the leader of the free world on the escalator … is it a coincidence? You had the teleprompter go down, you had the escalator stop, Katie Pavlich said in the press room when the president started talking the volume went down significantly … "
Imagine being surprised that people want to mute him.
Mike Lee calls to defund the UN after Trump was unable to ride up the escalator.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-09-23T23:40:49.010Z
How can you live like this?
I'm going to start calling all staircases "fatal funnels.""Do you want to take the elevator?""Nah, I'm going to go up the fatal funnel instead."
— Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T22:59:28.072Z
Have these people ever been to the UN?
The president also reverted to his usual “off with their heads”, calling for the imaginary saboteurs to be fired, but before the outrage over this dastardly attempt on his life could work up a head of steam, the outrage machinery had to be redirected in the service of the shooting at an ICE office in Dallas.
But don’t worry, everyone was back to work on making the president into a hero today:
Maria Bartiromo: "The escalator stopped as soon as he and the first lady stepped on it. Look at how great Melania was. She's unphased. She walks on it … but this could've been a massive, massive issue. The president being frozen there in one place makes him vulnerable."
FROZEN IN PLACE! It’s a fucking escalator. In the immortal words of Mitch Hedberg: “An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs.”
Then again:
And then there was this:
Rep. Greg Steube: "Thankfully the first lady and the president had their hands on the rails that were going up the escalator, or they likely would've fallen down and injured themselves. It seems to be intentional … I don't know why we're still part of the UN."
Maybe we should declare war on the UN.
I’ll leave you with the eternally creative Sparks:
