President Donald Trump claimed he was saved by 9/11 first responders despite being miles away from the devastating September 11, 2011, terrorist attack on New York City.
“I was building a big building in New York, and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened,” Trump, 80, claimed while speaking at a Tunnel to Towers Foundation event near the White House on Tuesday, September 8. “Wasn’t too much we could do. I’ll be honest. Nobody had seen anything like it ever. We had other buildings. The United States steel building was creaking. We thought it was going to fall down.”
Before concluding the nonprofit organization’s commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the attacks, Trump falsely claimed two firemen carried him to safety in the wake of the tragedy despite evidence the then-reality TV star was miles away from the scene.
“Two firemen — big, strong guys — and I’m not the smallest guy in the world. They grabbed me under the arms,” the commander-in-chief alleged. “They said, ‘Got to get out of here.’ And they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I’m big. They lifted me up, and they started running with me. I said, ‘Fellas, I can run myself.’ They were amazing.”
Trump’s recent remarks are not the first time he’s made erroneous claims about his experience on that fatal day that resulted in the death of nearly 3,000 Americans.
Richard Alles, a retired deputy chief with the New York Fire Department, told The New York Times in 2019 that Trump was never...
President Donald Trump claimed he was saved by 9/11 first responders despite being miles away from the devastating September 11, 2011, terrorist attack on New York City. “I was building a big buil...