Now, ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, he narrated a story about allegedly being carried away by firefighters due to fears of an imminent building collapse at some point after the incident. US President Donald Trump has often made false or unproven claims about what he supposedly saw and did on the day of the September 11 attacks.
Donald Trump narrated a story about allegedly being carried away by firefighters due to fears of an imminent building collapse at some point after the incident.
He added that two firemen grabbed him under the arms and lifted him up amid fears that the building would collapse. “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,” Trump continued. he has made such claims in the past While the Republican leader did not explicitly say that he or his workers helped to clear rubble or assisted with rescue efforts at Ground Zero.
On September 11, Trump was at his tower in Midtown Manhattan when the attack happened, miles away from the Twin Towers, as per CNN . News accounts that came in days after 9/11 include references to Trump high-fiving police officers and volunteers on their way to the World Trade Center site, as per the Associated Press .
He had earlier switched between claims on visiting Ground Zero “a couple of days” after the attack or shortly after the building collapse. In a 2016 telling of the story, Trump said that he was not inside when the firemen supposedly moved him; he claimed that the building was “not so far” and appeared to be on the verge of collapse. On Tuesday, Trump immediately thanked “my people” after mentioning rescue and recovery crews, implying that he organised a group that worked at the site.
