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In Tuesday’s speech in Washington, Donald Trump said he had been working on a building in New York and took his construction workers to Ground Zero “right after this happened”, and described being carried to safety by two firefighters near the US Steel Building.
“I’ll never forget two firemen,” Trump said. “We thought it was coming down on top of us,” he recalled, saying the firefighters grabbed him under the arms and “literally lifted me up” before running with him.
The remarks prompted renewed scrutiny of Trump’s account, including by New York Magazine, which questioned his version of events.
Trump subsequently responded on Truth Social, criticising the publication and clarifying that he was not at the World Trade Center “on the same day as the collapse, but shortly thereafter.”
But that same version of events has been rebutted by witnesses and journalists, and indeed even Trump himself at one point. He’s repeated the tale at least once before, in a January 2016 campaign stop in New Hampshire, however that time, he said the incident occurred “a couple of days after 9/11”
There are also questions about whether Trump was at Ground Zero at all. CNN journalist Daniel Dale - known for fact-checking false claims from Trump’s first term - said the US President was at Trump Tower, several miles from the World Trade Center.
A former Trump Organization executive also told...
To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. 2 min In Tuesday’s speech in Washington, Donald Trump said he had been working on a building ...