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David Mouriquand

'EscalatorGate' escalates and goes viral as MAGA call out sabotage of UN escalator

When Nathan Ames patented the first moving staircase in 1859, little did he know that 166 years later the escalator would become the latest fixation of Trump and his MAGA base.

At the United Nations general assembly this week, Donald Trump delivered a sprawling speech that often felt like experimental free form jazz. Except the avant-garde approach to the music genre requires a great deal of improvisational talent.

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