Trump Visited First Responders on 9/11 Anniversary

Tracy Davenport

Politics

13th September 2021

Trump Visited First Responders on 9/11 Anniversary

Trump visited first responders on the anniversary (Getty Images).

The Claim

Former President Donald Trump was missing on the 9/11 anniversary.

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David Catanese, a senior politics writer for U.S. News & World Report tweeted that former President Trump was absent from the 9/11 ceremony in his own city. The tweet was liked or retweeted about 50,000 times.

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Misbar’s Analysis

Misbar has discovered that twenty years after the attack of 9/11 on the world trade center, President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, and former President Bill Clinton all attended a name-reading ceremony in Lower Manhattan. Throughout the ceremony, six moments of silence were observed, acknowledging when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck and fell, and the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 according to ABC7.com.

Other former presidents including Trump were also acknowledging the importance of the day, but in a different way. Former President George W. Bush was in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at the Flight 93 National Memorial where he gave a speech to honor those who died on 9/11.

Trump chose to visit with first responders in New York City on 9/11. According to New York CBS, the former president visited the 17th police precinct in Midtown and a neighboring fire station. The former president, a New York City native spoke to the first responders about the attack on the World Trade Center and the recent Afghanistan withdrawal.