CNN’s senior White House correspondent mocked the overreaction from MAGA figures after an escalator at the U.N. General Assembly in New York stalled just as Donald Trump stepped onto it.

During an appearance on The Lead, Kristen Holmes wryly dubbed the minor incident, which prompted calls for a full inquiry from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, as “Escalatorgate 2025.”

“The press secretary [posted] an article, or at least a screenshot of an article in a British newspaper, The Times, that said some U.N. staffers had been joking about turning off the escalator and the elevators and then just telling President Trump, ‘Oh, it’s because we’re out of money,’” Holmes said.

“She posted that with this call for some sort of investigation, and calling for anyone involved to be fired.”

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