“The defining moment of 2025’s gathering of world leaders at the United Nations may have been Donald Trump’s accusation of ‘sabotage’ after his teleprompter blinked out and an escalator stalled while he was on it,” Bloomberg reports.
“Now the world body is working overtime to make sure nothing similar happens again to distract from its focus on solving the world’s problems this week.”
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