Stephen Colbert unpacked President Donald Trump’s “marketing campaign of vengeance towards his enemies” on Thursday evening’s Late Present, together with “the one foe who refuses to take him up,” the United Nations escalator.
On Tuesday, forward of his speech on the U.N. Normal Meeting, the president discovered his ascent actually foiled by a stopped escalator, then by technical points together with a failed teleprompter. Days later, Trump accused the U.N. of “triple sabotage,” hitting his social media platform Reality Social with a prolonged put up claiming “three very sinister occasions! This wasn’t a coincidence…”
The White Home opened an investigation with the Secret Service and demanded the U.N. do the identical, with U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric reporting that the escalator “had stopped after a built-in security mechanism on the comb step was triggered on the prime of the escalator,” doubtless brought on by Trump’s personal videographer. And the teleprompter? Dujarric mentioned in a press release for the U.N., “We have now no remark for the reason that teleprompter for the U.S. president is operated by the White Home.”
As for the alleged “third sabotage,” Trump claimed attendees “could not hear a factor” if utilizing the U.N. Interpretation System. A U.N. official responded in a press release: “The sound system was designed to permit individuals at their seats to listen to speeches being translated into six totally different languages by means of earpieces.”
It is rather a lot to unpack, dissect, and study. It will require an individual carrying many hats to analyze. At the least three hats.
So, on The Late Present, Colbert donned three Sherlock Holmes hats and three Sherlock Holmes pipes because the characters of “Escalator Investigator,” “Teleprompter Investigompter,” and “Ineffective Acoustics Detective Sleuth-Repair” to get to the reality of the matter.
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