00:00What appeared to be a heated, finger-wagging squabble between President Trump and his wife Melania, caught on camera aboard Marine One, was actually an animated discussion about the escalator breaking down when they arrived at UN headquarters, according to a lip reader.
00:16The widely shared clip shows the President pointing his finger at the First Lady, who responds by shaking her head during the exchange, filmed through the windows of Marine One as it landed on the South Lawn on Wednesday night.
00:28While many online have speculated it reveals a dispute between the pair, similar to French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, caught tussling as they got off a plane earlier this year, experts believe the conversation was about the viral escalator incident at UN headquarters in Manhattan the day before.
00:47Forensic lip reader Jeremy Freeman told the Daily Mail,
00:50From my interpretation, I don't think Donald Trump was having a go at Melania Trump, but at the shenanigans at the UN.
00:59It was unbelievable. How can you do that? Freeman believes the Commander-in-Chief said.
01:03Donald, look at me, the lip reader says she told the President before they got off the helicopter and walked across the lawn hand in hand.
01:11A second British lip reader, Nicola Hickling, similarly believes Trump was being protective of Melania in the moment caught on the helicopter.
01:20I can't forgive them. They tried to hurt you, Trump said to his wife at one point on the helicopter, Hickling told the Daily Mail.
01:28President Trump called for arrests to be made after the escalator at the United Nations headquarters abruptly stopped working as soon as he and the First Lady stepped onto it Tuesday, ahead of his address to the General Assembly.
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