Trump Demands Arrests for U.N. "Sabotage” Amid MAGA Escalator Conspiracy: A Closer Look

The president is laser-focused on inflation and grocery prices today. He made a major announcement at the White House in which he unveiled a detailed six-part plan that economists say could lead to a breakthrough in the White House's unwavering attempts

to make groceries more affordable and ease the financial burden on American household budgets. And obviously, that did not...happen. Did you guys hear me? Did you hear how insane that sounds? The whole time, were you like, is he serious? Because this sounds good.

I'm sorry to say that if you fell for that, you're the victim of another classic closer-look misdirect. -"Classic closer-look misdirect."

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$25. of intra-party feuds over the years, but there's one thing they can all agree on. Donald Trump is a big, strong, masculine guy.

This is the toughest, strongest man.

The toughest guy I've ever seen in Washington.

He's tough as an old Army boot.

This man is the toughest, most resilient human being.

The most masculine person, I think, to ever hold

the White House is the President of the United States.

Yeah, he's the most masculine person to ever hold the White House. He's not dancing at those rallies. He's working out. You can't see him. He's got little dumbbells in his hands. Now, some of you might think the title of most masculine president would belong to a general, like Eisenhower or Ulysses S. Grant

or perhaps to Teddy Roosevelt, an avid hunter and boxer who commanded a cavalry regiment known as the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War and was so masculine, he called himself the Bull Moose. But you'd be wrong, because according to Trump sycophants, Teddy can't hold a candle to Trump's masculinity. If you read the new MAGA history of America,

it turns out Teddy Roosevelt had an extensive LeBoo-Boo collection. And unlike Trump, he did not lift weights at his rallies. He ended every speech by dancing to YMCA.

-♪ It's fun to stay at the YMCA ♪

That worked out better than I thought it would. The point is, Trump is the strongest, most masculine president ever. Nothing can stop this man. Nothing.

Something that definitely did not work this morning was the escalator at the U.N. complex. The president and first lady walked into the U. not work this morning was the escalator at the UN complex. The president and first lady walked into the UN this morning and were abruptly stopped at the bottom. That

brief pause followed by a walk up the stairs. Trump and Melania were riding it up and it

just stopped. It came to a grinding halt and you can even see them kind of slightly lurching

forward. Thankfully, the first lady and the president had their hands on the rails. They were going up the escalator,

or you likely would have fallen down and injured themselves.

It's amazing that Melanie and I didn't fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps face first. It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly, or it would have been a disaster.

I have been on so many escalators without ever once worrying about the sharp edges of the steel steps. It's an escalator, not T-1000. Escalators. No one likes the escalator's sharp metal edges. It's why they call it the devil's staircase.

I thought Trump was the most masculine president ever. You guys are talking about him like he's a Fabergé egg. Is he a cross between Dave Bautista and Ivan Drago, or is he the old lady from the Life Calls commercial? Is that how he started his speech at the U.N.?

-"The assembly will hear an address by His Excellency Donald Trump, President of the United States of America."

-"I've fallen, and I can't get up!"

And look, hey, guys, presidents fall sometimes. It happens. Remember when Joe Biden fell off his bike? Or that time he turned stairs into an escalator? I don't remember Democrats saying, who's the saboteur who replaced the president's shoes with roller skates?

Let's listen again to how the Fox hosts described this harrowing incident.

-"Trump and Melania were riding it up, and it just stopped.

It came to a grinding halt.

And you can even see them kind of slightly lurching forward. They're describing an escalator malfunction like they're telling a spooky story at a campfire. Are they going to start holding flashlights under their chin?

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There was once a man and a woman who were going up from the first floor to the second

floor.

Was the second floor haunted? You ask? We'll never know. Because shortly after they stepped onto the escalator, it stopped. It came to a grinding halt. What happened next was curdle your blood and send shivers down your spine. When the escalator stopped, they lurched forward.

Not a lot, just slightly. And the man and the woman were forced to walk.

Oh, God. -$&%&!

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That's, uh...

Was I wrong? I thought MAGA was supposed to be the party of the common man. Do you know how out of touch you sound complaining about an escalator that lurched slightly forward? The writer of this segment rides the F train to work every day. It's his dream to lurch forward only slightly.

But Foxx isn't just mad at whoever's in charge of the escalator they're also annoyed at the Secret Service. I was more you know stunned at

the reaction like the the leader of the free world is on the escalator and

Secret Service looking like what do we do? What did you want them to do? Trump looked around for a second and started walking up the escalator. Seems like a pretty good outcome. Would it have mattered if someone had screamed, Black Hawk down! And then just, like, tackled him?

Should they have all lied down end-to-end to make a human carpet so he didn't have to step on the sharp edges, was it? But Trump and his White House are less concerned with the Secret Service than they are with finding the dastardly perpetrators of this sinister act and holding them accountable.

It does appear to be sabotage.

That's definitely what it appears to be to me.

Something more nefarious happening.

You think they deliberately were trying to sabotage Donald Trump.

Absolute sabotage.

This was absolutely sabotage. The people that did it should be arrested.

The most masculine president in history sure sounds like someone who would get kicked off the Next Door app for complaining too much. A car drove by last night playing rock and roll music at 9 p.m. They should be arrested. Honestly, I do hope they find the people responsible

and arrest them because it will be the funniest criminal trial of all time. Defendant, please rise. You've been charged with one count of gentle pranking and one count of aggravated hijinks. How do you plead?

Your Honor, the defendant pleads not guilty by reason of hilarity. And would the defendant like to add anything? Yes, Your Honor.

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Defendant will be remanded to solitary confinement. But, as always, seems to happen when Trump and his supporters suspect a vast, shadowy conspiracy. It turns out there's a much simpler and more innocent explanation.

The U.N. is offering some explanations here. They say it was likely a videographer for the White House who accidentally tripped a safety mechanism, causing the escalator to stop.

That's right. It turns out the saboteur came from inside the White House. The White House has a mole, a double agent, but who could it be? What powerful force would have an incentive to cause the president mild pain, pain that could be easily treated by some sort of over-the-counter medication?

Hold on. Let me think. I'll take a sip of my coffee. Who could it be? Damn it!

Don't take Tylenol. Don't take Tylenol. Don't take Tylenol. Don't take Tylenol. Of course, Tylenol. Don't take Tylenol.

Of course, it won't surprise you to learn, even after the U.N. investigation, Trump supporters aren't buying it, not because they have any evidence, but because of their own personal experience with Escalator.

The spokesperson for the U.N. general secretary on the Escalator gate has said this. As the videographer who was trying to... I don't buy this, by the way. It's never happened to me before. I do a lot of shopping. Go to a lot of malls.

I've been caught on like five elevators in my life. An escalator has never stopped working mid-escalation.

I'm sorry, you've been caught on five elevators? Are you doing it wrong? What floor is your apartment on? Alarm? What floor is your apartment on, alarm?" As absurd as this is, it's also deeply revealing. Everywhere they look, MAGA sees a shadowy conspiracy. Whether it's escalators, climate change,

or elections they don't win, reality doesn't conform to their preexisting agenda, so they have to imagine a sinister fantasy in which scientists are making up a climate change hoax, where Democrats are stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent votes, and where saboteurs

are orchestrating a secretive, far-reaching plot that ends with an escalator... -...slightly lurching forward. -...slightly lurching forward. -...this has been A Closer Look.