India, Sept. 24 -- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has urged United Nations officials to conduct an investigation after an escalator at headquarters abruptly stopped when President Donald Trump and Melania Trump stepped on it Tuesday morning, September 23. The moment was captured on camera, when the escalator in the entrance hall to the UN building in New York stalled as soon as the US President and his wife stepped on it.

"If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately," Leavitt wrote on X, citing a Times of London report claiming staffers had been overheard joking that they would stop the escalator so Trump would ...