White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt demanded that United Nations officials investigate whether an escalator at headquarters was “deliberately” sabotaged as President Trump and first lady Melania Trump stepped on it Tuesday morning .

“If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately,” Leavitt wrote on X , citing a Times of London report that staffers had been overheard joking that they may switch off the escalator and make Trump walk to the hall to give his speech.

“The safety mechanism was inadvertently triggered by someone who was ahead of the president on the escalator,” UN spokesperson Farhan Aziz Haq told The Times Tuesday. 4

“The escalator was immediatel

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