President Donald Trump just visited the United Nations to offer a customary annual presidential address.
Before he arrived, there were reports that UN staffers had joked about shutting down the escalator to chastise Trump for cutting out aid to some UN programs.
Upon arrival, as if on cue, Trump was met by a series of mysterious coincidences.
As soon as he and First Lady Melania mounted the escalator, it suddenly froze — forcing them to walk up.
Other escalators worked fine. Shortly afterward, the supposedly broken escalator was just as mysteriously running again.
When Trump went to the podium, his teleprompter mysteriously quit — and his alone.
As he delivered his speech from a text, the amplification in parts of the assembly was mysteriously lowered to near imperceptible levels