While the discussions are serious, for example, about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war in the Middle East, laughs were heard through the General Assembly as Donald Trump began speaking. It didn’t take long before he paused, as his teleprompter stopped working.
“I don’t mind making this speech without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter is not working,” Donald Trump said, adding that he was still happy to be in the General Assembly hall, per Al Jazeera.
Donald then, jokingly, made a 2-word threat to the person responsible for the teleprompters, saying, “I can only say that whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.”
The teleprompter wasn’t the first malfunction for the day. Donald was joined by Melania Trump at the UN in New York, but as they were heading up an escalator in the building, it suddenly stopped. Both Donald and Melania looked over their shoulders to ask what had happened, and afterward, the White House was unhappy.