Victor Davis Hanson: Silenced at the UN? Trump Faced Broken Escalator, Teleprompter Outage, and More

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

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President Donald Trump was only supposed to address the United Nations for 15 minutes, but he extended that to 55 minutes after it appeared U.N. employees tried sabotaging him four times. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the U.N.’s response to Trump’s speech and also calls out the hypocrisy as many U.N. members walked out on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech but stayed for China's Xi Jinping’s speech—a leader who has “over a million people in a Uyghur labor camp.” “All four of those circumstances were almost impossible to occur in one session ... This is very serious. It means that the United Nations has employees, or perhaps administrators, who deliberately tried to sabotage an American president while on American soil.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On September 23rd, Donald Trump gave an address to the United Nations.
0:06.0	It was a rare address, believe me, no one has ever been that blunt, explicit, and that critical of the UN.
0:13.0	Before he even gave the speech, he and First Lady Melania Trump and their entourage were just the minute they got on the escalator, it mysteriously shut down.
0:23.3	That was an odd thing to happen.
0:24.9	Number two was the teleprompter suddenly went out.
0:29.4	The escalator by this time was mysteriously back in service, and the teleprompter would be two.
0:34.5	And then three, unbeknownst to Donald Trump, people, reporters, and even
0:39.1	First Lady, Millennia, Trump said you couldn't hear Trump.
0:52.7	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
0:56.3	On September 23rd, Donald Trump gave an address to the United Nations.
1:02.4	It was a rare address, believe me.
1:04.6	No one has ever been that blunt, that explicit, and that critical of the UN.
1:10.1	It was scheduled to be 15 minutes, but on the other hand,
1:13.6	if the UN membership was shocked at the candor of Donald Trump, Donald Trump had ample reasons
1:20.6	to be candid, because before he even gave the speech, he and First Lady Melania Trump and their entourage were just the minute
1:29.7	they got on the escalator, it mysteriously shut down.
1:32.4	And by the way, the London Times had run a story saying that some members wanted to shut
1:36.9	it down in protest of Trump's cutting back on UN support.
1:41.6	That was an odd thing to happen.
1:43.4	Number two was the teleprompter suddenly went
1:46.8	out. The escalator by this time was mysteriously back in service and the teleprompter would be two.
1:53.7	And then three, on be known to Donald Trump, people, reporters, and even First Lady, Melania Trump said, you couldn't hear Trump.
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