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Topics: Donald Trump, United Nations, News, Melania Trump
Niamh Shackleton
Topics: Donald Trump, United Nations, News, Melania Trump
If there's one thing everyone knows about President Trump's speeches, it's that the 79-year-old often goes off an a random tangent partway through them.
Thursday (February 19) marked the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, where the president addressed the dozens of officials who jetted to the US capitol from various countries.
In his speech, Trump greeted many people and took the time to give a shoutout to Santiago Peña Palacios, Paraguay's president.
"[He's a] young, handsome guy. It's always nice to be young and handsome. Doesn't mean we have to like you," he said.
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In an undeniably odd turn of events, the president continued to say: "I don’t like young, handsome men. Women, I like. Men, I don’t have any interest."
Alrighty then...
In another moment of digression, Trump spoke out about that viral moment at the United Nations' headquarters in New York when an escalator ground to a halt just as he and his wife Melania stepped on it.
Trump and his administration didn't find the incident to be amusing at the time, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt calling on the matter to be 'investigated immediately'.
However, the POTUS now seems to see the lighter side of things.
He noted that the Board of Peace is working closely with the UN and how he has a good relationship with them — apart from escalator-gate in September.
Trump said: "I've had a good relationship [with the UN] other than when, at my last speech, they did turn off my teleprompter. I got up there, my teleprompter didn't work.
" [...] First I had an escalator that stopped. You know that it's going up. Boom. It's lucky that my movie star first lady in front of me because I put my hand on a certain part of her body and I was able to stop my fall."
In his odd comments on the ordeal, Trump added that Melania was 'right in the proper location for me'.
He then spoke of Melania's 'number one' movie, imaginatively called Melania. While it totally tanked with critics, the documentary about the first lady has an impressive 98 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
While Trump's team previously alleged that the escalator was stopped on purpose, the UN said that it stopped abruptly because of a safety mechanism that may have been triggered by his videographer who'd been behind the president and his wife at the time, BBC News reported.