The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after Donald Trump stepped onto it on Tuesday - his videographer may have accidentally triggered a safety mechanism.

U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said a readout of the escalator’s central processing unit indicated it “had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator.”

He said Trump’s videographer had been traveling backwards up the escalator to capture his arrival with First Lady Melania Trump.

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    One of the running gags in the show Frasier was the dimwitted presenter, Bulldog, animatedly accusing everyone under the sun of stealing his stuff, only to then find it in the most obvious possible place.

    I am not saying this Administration is dimwitted, but the story is uncannily similar.

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      I was gonna say “Bulldog would 100% be a manosphere talking head if that show had been made today,” but then I remembered that it was made today because they rebooted it. So I looked it up and apparently he came out as gay, which I guess, yeah, being formerly super-repressed tracks as the other option.

      Too bad Kelsey Grammar himself is a MAGA POS, so I won’t watch the show.

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        Fear not! I did so you don’t have to. Even by reboot standards, it’s not good. The characters are okay, the setup is okay, the writing has none of the wit of the original. It’s one of those shows where the laugh track comes on and you wonder if there is a different show running on a different TV, because there was nothing to laugh at in this one.