Trump gave an embarrassing speech at the UN, full of whininess and petulance and egotism, and on social media all you’ll find is conspiracy theorists inventing conspiracies about an escalator that stopped working and a faulty teleprompter. We need to stop funding the UN because they intentionally stopped an escalator! It’s the most petty stuff yet.
Except that the AP reports the actual causes:
Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.
“The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric said in a statement. “The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function.”
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A U.N. official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue contributed that one to his side as well, saying the White House was operating the teleprompter for the president.
That did not stop Trump from complaining about it in his speech, nor has it prevented the MAGA hordes from inventing scenarios where the minor incidents were contrived to afflict the president.
It’s a distraction. What everyone should be talking about is his rambling, incoherent, accusatory speech where he made up lies about stopping 7 wars and that he deserved a Nobel prize for each of them (he’s obsessed with prizes, like a 4 year old at Chuck E. Cheese), and went on to accuse every other nation of being failures who had fallen for the scams of environmentalists. It was absolutely deranged. This ought to be grounds for impeachment due to incompetence, except that all the Republicans believe that Trumpism is what will keep them in power, and we also dread seeing JD Vance elevated further.
I mean, really, his brain is broken.
Oh, and about that claim that he ended 7 wars:
And the Cambodian-Thai border crisis is still going on.
He’s done diddly-squat but he wants a Nobel peace prize for it.
How long until the escalator is labeled a member of Antifa?
He should fet an Ig Nobel peace prize… for stopping the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia.
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Let us not forget how he confused Gaza Province in the African country Mozambique with the Gaza strip and claimed US foreign aid was sending condoms to Hamas ( no, and they did not even send it to Mozambique).
I hate to say it, but I just watched Gavin Newsom on Colbert last night, and that man, never mind his close connections to the Trump family via his ex, the Mar-A-lago faced Mrs Guilfoyle, that man has energy. He said all the right things, and I see absolutely nobody in the Democratic party who could or should even be a close match to him in any primary. Yes I know, big problems with the guy, but if there are in fact still midterms, and if there is a presidential election in 2028, that dude has to run.
Kimmel’s monologue now has 7 million views on YT after a few hours, talk about the Streisand effect.
Trump’s talk at the UN has surely shown even the most hapless dictator out there that he is a TACO.
Until the end of eternity, the Republicans should be forced to own this. Otherwise they will blame his mistakes on Democratic presidents in less than five years from now.
If the Republicans run Kang or Kodos for the presidency it would arguably be an improvement. A few humans getting eaten is nothing compared to the health care catastrophe of Trump/RFK Jr.
There are still many monarchies in the world, and they all have special procedures to be followed in the case where the Crown is passed to a child too young for the job. I am frankly disappointed that no-one asked to speak to Trump’s adult carer.
Trump strikes me as one of those kids who actually believes a participation trophy is a triumph.
This sums it up.
Of course most of us see how embarrassing this is.
That isn’t even the worst.
Trump and the GOP are also systematically destroying what is good about the USA every day and wrecking where we live.
Many of us are doing whatever we can to end our national nightmare of incompetent fascist rule. At some cost and some risk to ourselves.
Ask Jimmy Kimmel what it has cost him or the Fed governor Lisa Cook that Trump has targeted for removal.
Honestly I hesitate to make fun of someone who has great difficulty reading. Also, in a very well-defined sense, Mr. Trump really is the victim here, for either his environment or his nature may have prevented him from learning things properly.
Of course, he does a lot of damage too, but he actually may in some sense be one of the poorest people in the world, and the fact that so many people are working just to make him happy only makes it worse for him.
The president of the USA, who is tearing down traditional norms and remaking the government, is not someone who can be called a “victim”. He’s at the pinnacle of power and is using it to do great harm to every citizen in the country.
I am of mixed views on that. Whatever it is that Trump has that makes some people follow him, James Donald Bowman doesn’t have it. So he probably couldn’t get the Senate Republicans and the Supreme Court to go along with his criming.
If we do go down the route of blaming the man’s upbringing, circumstances and lack of formal education for his ravening incompetence, then we should also note that at any point in the last thirty years he could have walked away and used some of his ill-gotten gains to educate himself. Or just decided to enjoy his undeserved wealth out of the public eye in whatever disgusting fashion took his fancy.
Nobody compelled him to seek election as president three times.
@12 Well said.
The worst thing about the speech, the worst thing about Trump — and I know, it’s hard to choose — is his climate change denialism. That’s what is most likely to bring about a collapse of civilization.
Despite his constant whining for a cookie, not only has he done jack-shit to end coflicts on the international stage, he, his administration, and their assorted media lickspittles continue to employ violent and dehumanizing threats and language against anyone and anything they dont like.
Fox News has already called for the UN to be defunded or bombed over this escalator “issue”.
Obama got the Peace Prize for not being Bush. Trump is so, so much worse than Bush ever was.
i hear trump also ended the war between rebels and the empire in some galaxy far far away.
I feel very strongly that Taco should get the Nacho Piece of Shit Prize.
how long until the GOP members of congress grow some balls and defy this lunatic? proclaim “the emperor has no clothes!” – incompetence, criminal acts, coercion, shake downs, obvious lickspittle obsequiousness towards Putin (give him another month?), the bribes…impeach him already take back your ‘party’ be patriots, be Americans, have some integrity, some dignity. You fear that the ‘base’ will primary you and replace you with someone who will what? do exactly what Trump wants so..you do exactly what Trump wants? Cowards, traitors, to hell with the lot of them
Sharia law?
Here in Canada we operate under Shania Law.
Whenever I daydream about Trump being medically or mentally incapacitated and replaced, I come back to reality. There lurks JD, the Catholic convert. This being America, he has every right to believe whatever he wants, but it’s a well known fact that converts tend to be the most zealous and fanatical followers. They are convinced they’re found the truth, and now that they’ve found it, they’ll make damn sure you must, too.
More horror.
Farron Cousins on Trump inventing a new FBI term to tag transgender people as ‘violent extremists’.
“This is TERRIFYING”
.https://youtube.com/shorts/DK7DnN34SWA
John watts @ 21
When we take over everyone will be happy. And if some do not want to be happy we have the means to make them.
Well that escalated quickly.
re Artor @16: The fact that Obama, a black man, got the Nobel prize, no matter what the reason, is what rankles The Orange Turd so much.
Excellent comments today by Mary Trump ,his niece.
https://www.marytrump.org/p/a-humiliating-spectacle-on-the-world?publication_id=559646&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=cc4sl&utm_medium=email
Im pretty sure that Trump ended the war between Albania and Aberbaijan.
Sorry… Couldn’t resist!
HONESTY ELUDES HIM!
#3 Rorschach
That says more about the Democratic Party, and nothing good, than it does about Newsom. I haven’t heard him say anything any other Democratic politician hasn’t said and I’m disappointed that Mamdani, not being a natural born citizen, can’t run for president.
#4 birgerjohansson
More like five months from now. His mistakes are already obvious and once they become undeniably terrible, which isn’t far off, they’ll be looking for scapegoats.
Chesapeake @26…
Thanks for the link. Mary Trump is always a good read.
Governor Pritzker of Illinois has stood up and fought back.
The Senator from Maryland, Christopher Van Hollen, Jr. has also had a whole lot to say.
Gah. Apart from everything else, the US’ international reputation is sinking fast and soon there’ll be no trace left.
I wonder how many Americans realize this: in spite of everything, there was still some goodwill and respect left. But a couple more years with this headcase running wild will torpedo them forever.
His petulance is so typical of him. Of course he wants to distract from the eminent government shutdown that the media should be screaming about. Also the Epstein files and the utter incompetence of his administration.
Border Czar on film taking bribes? Kash Patel manufacturing text messages? Russia threatening various European countries? Genocide of Gaza?
Tylenol. Kimmel and Cobert being fired?
I think the lamestream media needs to get their heads out of his ass and stop wasting so much airtime on stopped elevators.
Or escalators.
For once, when this orange idiot parades his ignprant ass in front of assembled dignitaries and spews utter nonsense, I want to hear these dignitaries break out in loud guffaws and sustained laughter.
cheerfulcharlie, ahem. Those dignitaries’ roles are to make the best of things as they are. Pragmatics.
From yesterday’s news: Seven years ago Trump’s UN audience laughed, this year they were silent
Here is a lovely bit of OT news.
The Dem candidate in an Arizona special election won by a huge margin yesterday. 70.6% vs 26.6%
She will replace her recently deceased father and hopefully this will send a strong message to maga Congress that we the people are so done with maga fascism.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5KAxKEIA-V8&pp=ygUQQWRlbGl0YSBHcmlqYWx2YQ%3D%3D
Dynasticism, that’s the thing, Tethys. Lovely.
Winning an election is the opposite of a dynasty John.
Arizona is not a very populous state, but it is one of the so called red states that voted for fascism. I’m sure the name recognition didn’t hurt her, but the fact that she won by such an enormous margin is a very good sign.
One more vote can make all the difference with Congress at the moment. Making maga have angst over their bullshit is a bonus.
“Done diddly squat” Diddling democracy while squatting in the White House. Sounds about right.
Meh. I would take the Clinton Dynasty over the shit we have now any day of the week. Hell, I’d even take the Bush Dynasty over this even as awful as they were.
That being said, I don’t see any evidence of a “Grijalva Dynasty” and I congratulate her for her victory.
re Tethys @34-35: It would have been awesome if The Orange Turd had been trapped in a stopped elevator, especially if there was video footage of the interior of the elevator while he was trapped. An escalator he could walk away from, the elevator not so much.
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And, if I may:
Absolute best case, the rest of the world will no longer make any arrangements with the US that last beyond the next presidential election. Even if the incumbent at the time is absolutely outstanding, there’s no guarantee that they won’t elect another toddler who will just wreck everything.
@ 44 John Morales
Care to supply a synopsis, since you’re on record as expressing contempt for anyone expecting others would watch a video even a few minutes long?
(To many of us, watching politicians give speeches is somewhere under visits to the dentist on the pleasure scale.)
Also I don’t claim to be a doyen of fashion – but who the fuck told the Aussie PM to match his tie to his… shirt?
@48. Silentbob : “To many of us, watching politicians give speeches is somewhere under visits to the dentist on the pleasure scale.”
Whilst to many others such speeches are informative and intresting. It takes all sorts as the saying goes.
@29. Walter Solomon :
How about some of the squd members – AOC? Ilhan Omar? Rashida Tlaib? AOC was born in New York & has been pretty much designated Sander’s successsor. Or is the USA now decidedly too horribly misogynist to even consider a woman for POTUS after HRC what we saw unleashed on Kamala & HRC? (Thanks again to their critics in the States including here on this blog. Good work folks..*) Perhaps it is – so maybe Greg Casar? :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Casar
As a male member of the squad or the since removed from ofice by AIPAC $$$ Jamal Bowman if he can somehow return aghain, formelrly of the squad and of the sadly only qualifying gender?
Or Cory Booker? (too African-American to get elected in these racist days?) Or Pete Buttigieg? (Too gay to get elected these more homophobic days?) Or Maxwell Frost? ( (See Cory Booker brackets..)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Frost
Plus : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad_(U.S._Congress)
OTOH, I don’t think the next elections will be remotely free or fair. Those who voted for Fascists – either directly, indirectly via thrid party spoilers or by not voting at all – have blown it not just for that year but indefinitley into the future and killed what was already a very shaky, poor excuse for a Democracy.
Still there’s actually quite a few good Democratic poliicians with potential even if they are bound by some awful political realities.. including that Putin’s puppet and fascism now runs your country.
Oh and the cowed and feeble and billionaire owned increasingly monopolised esp in political views media that isn’t giving the words of most of those I’ve mentioned here much of hearing or publicity.
.* Does that really need a sarc tag?
@ ^ Oh & perhaps the Democratic parties biggest handicap and worst political reality to beat is the section of their own base that demands a fucking unicorn instead of accepting their real world imperfect human best candidate that’s actually possible and refuses to just support and vote for their actual nominee even for just long enough to actually win an election.
Oh and those that think that Democrats that trying to appeal to those outside their narrow base and thus, y’know, actually win elections is are somehow betraying them and doing something bad rather than doing what is politically necessary to not lose elections because their understanding of politics is .. beyond laughable.. Resulting in tragedy not comedy in fact. In reality. In effect. For emphasis because seems ..no amount of emphasis of that can ever be enough?
If by some improbable miracle there’s a future election where a Democrat can actually become POTUS again GET A CLUE! Unify. Support. Vote for that candidate even if its Mike Moore’s Ficus plant again.(Expletives.)
Oh and for those forever dissin’ the Dems here – how many of them do you actually hear from and know about to really say? Maybe give them an actual, thoughtful, fair hearing before you ignore the realities here and also look at the fucking alternatives!
Reality – You. Have. Just.Two. Actual, Parties. To. Choose. From. Don’t like that? Change your political system! If you can’t, (hey, reality again.) well pick the better of the two options.
But the metaphorical horse (definitely NOT unicorn) has bolted here
long agolast year and so all this is now moot anyhow I fear & reckon. So.. fuck.@49. & #47. Silentbob : “who the fuck told the Aussie PM to match his tie to his… shirt?”
Why the fuck are ties still a thing at all in this era? Make less sense than codpieces really. Also, that’s what you mainly got out of the speech shared in #44?
Let alone a yt short but anyhow, again, different folks like different things, variety is spice of life (melange), etc.. Anyhow, not exactly a synopsis but via Aussie ABC :
Source : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-25/albanese-united-nations-general-assembly-speech/105815200
@16. Artor among others comparing Trump w other POTUSés incl Bushes & Clintons : “. Trump is so, so much worse than Bush ever was.”
As a meme seen on fb went – memory serving & paraphrasing :
@John Harshman :
Truth. Quoting for.
@lumipuna – 24 September 2025 at 11:41 am : “Well that escalated quickly.”
Thread won.
StevoR @51
All of them are better than what we have now and I’d gladly vote for each of them if they were the nominees.
That said, some of those are better than others. Booker is nothing more than an establishment Democrat like Newsom. I don’t really see either of them doing much for the middle class, working class, or poor of the country.
Wes Moore, the governor of my state, could throw his hat in as well although I’d rather he run for a 2nd term as governor. Either way, the field seems large so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.