Letter: With Trump on board, maybe the U.N. escalator was onto something
President Donald Trump, center, and First Lady Melania Trump, upper right, walk up the escalator after it stalled as he rode up to the General Assembly Hall, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
I caught a snippet of a story on KUER about the escalator at the U.N. and how it stopped just as President Trump and the first lady stepped onto it.
The escalator expert featured in the story described that escalators don’t stop unless it is to avert a disaster.
Hmmm. Somehow the escalator knew about the disastrous speech Trump was about to present to the members of the U.N. and tried to intervene?
Jon Seegmiller, Salt Lake City
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