{"id":10979,"date":"2026-01-21T01:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:50:22","slug":"escalator-chaos-at-the-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10979","title":{"rendered":"ESCALATOR CHAOS AT THE UNITED NATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UN officials denied any foul play, saying a videographer walking backward to film the couple accidentally triggered a built-in safety mechanism. Trump later turned the moment into humor during his speech, joking that the escalator \u201cstopped halfway up \u2014 but at least Melania\u2019s in great shape,\u201d and poking fun at a teleprompter glitch that followed. The minor mishaps drew laughs but also highlighted the lingering tension between Trump and the UN, a reminder that even global diplomacy has its awkward moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN officials denied any foul play, saying a videographer walking backward to film the couple accidentally triggered a built-in safety mechanism. Trump later turned the moment into humor during his speech, joking that the escalator \u201cstopped halfway up \u2014 but at least Melania\u2019s in great shape,\u201d and poking fun at a teleprompter glitch that followed. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}