Donald Trump Keeps Finding New Ways to Shock the World

""They decided to go in another direction, which was much more expensive at the time, which actually produced a far inferior product," Trump said. He claimed that he had promised the U.N. mahogany walls and marble floors and that what it got instead was cheap terrazzo flooring and enormous cost overruns. "And I realized that they did not know what they were doing when it came to construction.""

"The reason Trump was ranting about the U.N.'s floors was that he was mad about the reception he had received while entering the building to make his speech-the escalator conveying him and Melania Trump to the main speaking floor had come to a halt, forcing them to walk one floor up, only to find that the teleprompter also was not working and the President would have to read out his address the old-fashioned way."

Donald Trump expressed longstanding personal grievances with the United Nations, citing a supposed 2001 refusal to grant him the contract to redevelop the U.N. headquarters. He claimed to have offered mahogany walls and marble floors and said the U.N. instead received cheap terrazzo flooring and experienced enormous cost overruns. He reacted angrily to a halted escalator and a malfunctioning teleprompter during his U.N. General Assembly appearance, saying he received "a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter." He later called the episode "triple sabotage," alleged that sound was turned off during his speech, and demanded that those responsible be arrested. An official U.N. statement suggested that a White House videographer might have accidentally triggered the escalator shutdown.

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