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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:06 AM Sunday

Newsom's newest troll of Trump looks back at 'escalatorgate' and difficulties saying acetaminophen

Source: The Independent

Saturday 27 September 2025 15:09 EDT


California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s trolling of President Trump escalated this week with a new video mocking Trump’s United Nations’ entrance mishap known as “Escalatorgate.”

The clip, set to the 90s hit “Macarena,” splices together soundbites from Trump with footage of the stalled escalator he and First Lady Melania Trump attempted to ride before his General Assembly address.

“A golden week, for a golden era,” Newsom wrote in the caption.

One edited portion of the video shows Trump beginning to say, “Nothing bad can happen, it can only” before cutting to a separate clip of him saying “escalator.” His actual quote, “Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen,” which was made at a Monday press conference, went viral on social media for not making sense.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/gavin-newsom-trump-trolling-b2835000.html






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Newsom's newest troll of Trump looks back at 'escalatorgate' and difficulties saying acetaminophen (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP
The man is obsessed with that escalator incident. MLWR Sunday #1
I've never encountered a broken escalator. sakabatou Sunday #3
No worries jeffreyi Sunday #2
This reminds me of that movie Coma. nt Trueblue Texan Sunday #4

MLWR

(572 posts)
1. The man is obsessed with that escalator incident.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 08:53 AM
Sunday

How many of us have had to walk up a stopped escalator multiple times in our lifetimes? And somehow, as much of an inconvenience as it is, we manage to do it without going off the deep end every time it happens.

sakabatou

(45,353 posts)
3. I've never encountered a broken escalator.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 10:02 AM
Sunday

That being said, I do know you can use them as regular stairs.

jeffreyi

(2,449 posts)
2. No worries
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 09:57 AM
Sunday

Medbeds are the answer!

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

Alex Kaplan (@alkapdc.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T03:14:11.696Z
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