UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after US President Donald Trump stepped onto it on Tuesday — his videographer may have accidentally triggered a safety mechanism. Trump jokingly complained about the incident during his speech to world leaders earlier on Tuesday after the teleprompter also didn’t work. “These are the two things I got from the United Nations — a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,” he told the 193-member assembly, to some laughter.

Donald Trump and first lady Melania were forced to walk up a broken escalator at the United Nations prompting an angry response from the president during his address to the…

President’s escalator grinds to a halt on his way to General Assembly, then teleprompter fails to work