The Trump Tower climbing stunt is over, but the jokes live on

A man climbs up the side of Trump Tower Wednesday.

(Image credit: Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images)

A very strange odyssey — involving a man calling himself Steve from Virginia using a contraption made of rope and suction cups to scale up the side of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan — has come to an end.

For almost three hours on Wednesday afternoon, networks aired his slow climb up the building and, ultimately, his capture when NYPD officers reached out of a window and yanked him inside. In a video posted to YouTube allegedly by the climber, he says he decided to scale the tower to get Trump's attention. He definitely got the attention of these people, who were unable to let this bizarre expedition go by without a tweet:

Trump unfortunately missed the drama, as he is 500 miles away, campaigning in Virginia. Sad!

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.