Trump issues ominous threat as he suffers awkward blunder during UN speech

Donald Trump's visit to the United Nations HQ today (23 September) went from bad to worse in terms of technical blunders.

For the first time in six years, the US President took to the stage at the global organisation's New York HQ on the 80th anniversary of the date it was founded.

Although you might presume this would be a celebratory occasion, there wasn't a very merry mood in the room - and the UN delegates got something of a dressing down from Trump.

He was only meant to deliver a 15 minute speech, but ended up spending nearly an hour on stage slamming governments across the world and accusing the UN of spearheading a 'globalist migration agenda'.

Trump told leaders that the world body - which was set up in wake of World War 2 by 50 nations who promised to protect global peace and human rights - that it was 'funding an assault on your countries'.

"It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders," the commander-in-chief said. "You have to end it now...Your countries are going to hell.”

The most lighthearted part of the President's speech came when he addressed the technical issues that he encountered on Tuesday before and during his speech.

On the way into the UN's headquarters, Trump and his wife Melania were forced to walk up a broken escalator after it malfunctioned as they rode up it. God bless them, eh?

He made sure to mention this glitch during his speech, telling the General Assembly: "All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle.

"If the First Lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen, but she's in great shape."

However, it was another technical issue which really got his goat - as his teleprompter stopped working and he reportedly had to refer to paper notes instead.

Trump issued an ominous threat to the operator of the device during his address, saying: "I don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter. Because the teleprompter is not working..."

Those in the room were heard laughing, before the President then went on to make what we hope was a tongue-in-cheek comment about the person responsible for operating the teleprompter.

"I feel very happy to be up here with you nevertheless," Trump continued. "And that way, you speak more from the heart. I can only say that whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble."

A short time later, Trump then quipped: "These are two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. Thank you very much. And by the way, it's working now."

Social media users joked that the poor teleprompter operator would be out on the ear by the end of the day, given the contentious climate in the US at the moment.

One person said: "The teleprompter people are on their way to El Salvador as we speak."

Another added: "He really isn’t the best person. I hope whoever was working teleprompter, if there was one, doesn’t get into trouble."

A third chimed in saying: "I’m old enough to remember when needing a teleprompter was a huge deal and meant someone shouldn’t be president, according to some folks."

While a fourth said: "He always says he doesn't need one and now he's b**ching that it's not working?"

In wake of Trump's warning to the teleprompter operator, UN representative Farhan Aziz Haq hit back at the President - claiming he ought to take the issue up with his own people, who were supposedly in charge of it.

The Deputy Spokesperson of the UN Secretary General told Entertainment Weekly: "The White House, not the UN, was in charge of the teleprompter that was used.

"Please ask them about what happened with their teleprompter. Thanks."