President Donald Trump appears to fear falling down the stairs of Air Force One.
On Wednesday, during his trip to Asia, Trump appeared to be holding on to the railing “for dear life,” as he walked down the stairs, the Daily Beast reported.
“Trump gripped the railing of Air Force One as he took special care to walk down the steps after landing in Busan, South Korea, on Wednesday,” the Beast said. “The president is in South Korea for APEC meetings, as part of a global jaunt that has included visits to Malaysia and Japan.”
Trump’s slow and steady exit from Air Force One follows the revelation last month that he is concerned about tumbling down the stairs.https://t.co/jWPtfCTXRv pic.twitter.com/iQellNbHn7
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 29, 2025
Trump, per the Beast, has expressed concerns about falling down the stairs.
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“I’m very careful. You know, when I walk downstairs—like I’m on stairs like these stairs—I walk very slowly,“ Trump confessed during his speech to military leaders in Virginia earlier this month.
“Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall because it doesn’t work out well… Just walk nice and easy. You don’t have to set any record.”
We’ve had Presidents who fell down stairs regularly https://t.co/mvsVeSaJvg Biden isn’t the only one who tripped and certainly not the clutziest either but who could forget Trump toilet paper promenade? See reply
— EweFFOh (@eweFFoh) May 16, 2024
President Biden, infamously, had occasional trouble on the stairs. But then again, many presidents have, including Gerald Ford, whose pratfalls were famously mocked by Chevy Chase in the early days of Saturday Night Live in the 1970s.
Some social media users mocked Trump for hanging on to the stairs:
Looks like Trump needs help walking down the stairs because there’s no stair rail. We’ve all seen him holding on for dear life to every stair rail he encounters. https://t.co/ITLceTtcgV pic.twitter.com/qeHWg24Szw
— Janice Jhana 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦💙#VoteBlue (@OMAHAGEMGIRL) October 29, 2025
And that also happened in 2020:
Trump had trouble walking down the short stairs of AF1 last night in FL. He was tentative & bent toward the railing. He needed to stop & do his wave as a cover move to reset his balance. Once down he twice displayed leg drag on the pavement. His neurological decline is worsening. pic.twitter.com/NhcwuQA3RR
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) February 1, 2020
And in 2019:
DEMENTIA ALERT- Trump clings to his 5″10″ cane Melania & the railing while descending all the stairs of AF 1.
Melania was there to normalize it- but it looked bizarre. Trump’s balance keeps worsening. It’s a key symptom of his dementia & as noted here, will be a game changer. pic.twitter.com/vYxorHG098
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) December 2, 2019
Photo courtesy of an X screenshot.
