But it's not even coming close to living up to that potential." Trump pokes at UN for escalator, teleprompter issuesEarly in his speech, Trump broke from his prepared remarks to bemoan an inoperable escalator in U.N. headquarters that he happened upon as well as a defective teleprompter. He peppered his speech with criticism of global institutions doing too little to end war and solve the world's biggest problems. "It's too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them," Trump said. "Sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help in any of them."