People often say Trump has a hard on for the UN, yet recent events show just how flaccid the dictator is when faced with a massive challenge like simply walking up stairs.

President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks at the United Nations on Tuesday to bemoan an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter…

But it turns out the cause was…a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.

The visual of him sending someone ahead to make himself stuck halfway up an escalator, gesticulating about dysfunction while his own team caused his problems, really does make for the perfect political comedy moment.

It’s the kind of symbolic moment of self-sabotage that political satirists dream of – the would-be strongman literally unable to get up the stairs, standing in a puddle of his own legendary incontience.

Doubling down by blaming the UN for equipment his own team was operating just adds another layer to the whole farce, twice.

He joked that whoever was running the teleprompter “is in big trouble.” …the White House was operating the teleprompter for the president.

The reality of such dictatorship diction clearly writes far better comedy than attempts at satire ever could. Simply speaking the truth about Trump is like unlocking comedy gold.

The self-proclaimed strongman is literally stuck halfway up the stairs, too weak to take a step up, ranting like a toddler about others’ incompetence while his own team was sent ahead to sabotage him.

It’s the obvious metaphor for his entire life, going nowhere himself while sending people ahead so he can blame them for all his problems.

Not only does his own team stop him, but then he threatens whoever is “running” the teleprompter… which is his team again, trapped in a cycle of creating his problems and then being angrily blamed by him for his failures to lead them.

In short, Trump believes America will continue promoting him the more he demands someone else be held accountable for his own failures. Blacks? Jews? Hispanics? Asians? Who will he target next?

This tiny tinpot of a man literally cannot move forward under his own power, needs others to clear the path, but then he uses those same people to blame as obstacles to his progress. Rather than adapt as a true leader should, his swollen ankles are frozen while he gesticulates and demands accountability from everyone except himself.

Even Kafka would never make the symbolism of institutional physical and mental decline so obvious. Trump acts like a ship’s barnacle, entirely dependent on the people he is simultaneously undermining, while claiming to hold everything together.

The escalator and prompter weren’t just broken by team Trump, they were delivered as perfect examples of America’s new military dictatorship being in constant malfunction by design. Without Trump, there wouldn’t be Trump problems for Trump to demand more control and create more Trump problems.

Here’s supposedly sitting in the most powerful position in the world, yet a historic failure in property management who is unable to operate basic building infrastructure. It becomes easy to see why he rages at everyone around him while his own apparatus falls down. It’s like watching a mentally ill man try to project strength while pissing himself in fear.

Historian protip: Mussolini, who was killed by his own people, never actually made the trains run on time.

Authoritarians are inherently incompetent at leading and eventually run out of people to murder. The apparatus they’ve spent years violently undermining ultimately fails them when they need it most. Just ask Paul Manafort, Trump’s manager, what happened to his prior client Siad Barre.

Historian protip: Barre was the Somali dictator who ruled through manufactured crises and scapegoating before being overthrown and dying in exile, his country left in ruins.