Here are five takeaways from Trump’s speech at the United Nations. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong,” he claimed. Broken equipment — and a broken institutionTrump used a broken escalator and his inoperable teleprompter to underscore his deeper complaints about the United Nations. “These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,” he said. “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he asked during his speech.