{"id":2605306,"date":"2026-05-20T23:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carney-pokes-fun-at-trumps-un-teleprompter-conspiracy-theory\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T23:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:41:12","slug":"carney-pokes-fun-at-trumps-un-teleprompter-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carney-pokes-fun-at-trumps-un-teleprompter-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney pokes fun at Trump&#8217;s UN teleprompter &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcarney-pokes-fun-at-trumps-un-teleprompter-conspiracy-theory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2605306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Canadian Prime minister Mark Carney, speaking at a Greater Vancouver board of Trade conference, joked about a teleprompter failure when his own device went down. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-gottlieb-biden-must-work-harder-to-battle-covid-19\/\" title=\"Dr. Gottlieb: Biden must work harder to battle COVID-19\">remarks appeared<\/a> to reference President Donald Trump\u2019s teleprompter malfunction during a speech at the United Nations last fall, and also Trump\u2019s complaints that the UN had a series of glitches he called \u201ctriple sabotage.\u201d Carney alluded to a \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d teleprompter joke without naming Trump.  <\/p>\n<p>The article also notes that after the UN incidents, the White House and U.S. ambassador Mike Waltz called for investigations, while the Secret Service investigated separately. The UN later concluded the mishaps were attributable to Trump\u2019s team and that the relevant teleprompters were controlled by the White House Communications Agency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mark-carney\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11724\">Mark Carney<\/a> appeared to reference President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a>, whose teleprompter malfunctioned during his speech at the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-nations\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"110\">United Nations<\/a> last fall, in a speech Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a conference for the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, Carney\u2019s own teleprompter went down. 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General Assembly<\/a> in September when the teleprompter cut out as he began to speak. 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The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/secret-service\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1478\">Secret Service<\/a> led a separate investigation from the U.N., whose officials promised to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.N. ultimately blamed Trump\u2019s team for the technical mishaps, concluding that teleprompters for the president at the intergovernmental organization\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york-city\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"286\">New York City<\/a> headquarters are solely operated by the White House Communications Agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carney jokes after his teleprompter fails, hinting at Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2605307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP25280600253418.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[11781,5894,3634,52441],"class_list":["post-2605306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-carney","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-un-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP25280600253418.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605310,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605306\/revisions\/2605310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}