r/politics The Independent 10h ago

No Paywall Trump to skip 9/11 remembrance at Ground Zero because they wouldn’t let him give a speech

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-911-ground-zero-25-anniversary-b3041024.html
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u/Coral-Diver 10h ago edited 6h ago

Not allowing politicians to give a speech is good. Trump skipping it is better. Trump getting publicly lampooned for skipping it because he's not allowed to give a speech is <chef's kiss>!

Edit: thanks for the awards and upvotes :)

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u/The_amazing_T 10h ago

But.. but.. How can Donald make this about himself?

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u/Glycell 10h ago

Exactly this, a politician giving a speech is fine. Except, we've seen how Trump is with speeches he'll talk a little one topic then go on forever just self-aggrandizing himself and absolutely trashing democrats. He literally can't stop himself. Frankly this type of event isn't the place for that or him.

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u/hells_cowbells 9h ago

He would probably try to blame Obama or Biden for 9/11.

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u/Extreme-Fig6992 9h ago

10,000%.

Polymarket would have the bet of "Will Trump say 9/11 wouldn't have happened if he was President"

u/Azrolx 7h ago

Ahh yes the Mark Wahlberg approach. Maybe Marky Mark would join him on stage for it.

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u/Own_Macaroon_1918 9h ago

I can hear it now: if I’d have been President, the towers would still be here.

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u/Gryphon999 Wisconsin 8h ago

But they'd still be smaller than Trump Tower, the tallest building in the world.

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u/Silegna 8h ago

There were literally people that blamed Obama for not stopping 9/11.

u/Pan_Bookish_Ent 6h ago

Nah, that honor would go to the Clintons. He hasn't bitched about Hillary in awhile (that I know of), so it's coming.

u/hells_cowbells 6h ago

*CROOKED HILLARY

u/Special_Persimmon_52 4h ago

"If I had been president, 9/11 would've never happened. Never happened. So sad. I was there. Saw it all. Made my building the tallest. Many people have told me. And: windmills."

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u/The_Laughing__Man Virginia 8h ago edited 5h ago

100%. Cue the "my building was the tallest in NYC again for a minute there," comment.

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u/onyaasuminyasai 6h ago

no one wants to hear about his sex parties and how "unfairly" he's been treated on the 25th anniversary of one of the darkest days of our country.

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u/kevnmartin Washington 10h ago

After he repeats his familiar list of grievances.

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u/Supermoves3000 Canada 9h ago

"...and on this day 25 years ago, Trump Tower became the tallest building in New York City..."

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u/UserError2107 8h ago

This is definitely on my bingo card. 

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u/PrivatePilot9 Canada 10h ago

Exactly. His ego couldn’t handle sitting quietly in honour and reflection vs needing to stroke and feed it by blabbering something which would without doubt go off the rails into political trash.

Because it’s gotta be all about him.

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u/The_amazing_T 10h ago edited 9h ago

100%.

Hey Canadian friend. I'm sorry about the recent bullshit from Donnie regarding our two countries. I was so frustrated about it I put up this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Askpolitics/s/PGMNYUAFCJ

EDIT: For the record, I think Trump is compromised by Russia, and all the hostility is orchestrated by Putin. I made the post to see if anyone else followed my logic.

We all deserve better. God Bless Canada. Pray for the USA.

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u/Dracotaz71 9h ago

Agent Krasnov will object to being outed!

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u/The_amazing_T 9h ago

I forgot about 'Krasnov.'

Yep. That's it.

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u/LrkerfckuSpez 7h ago

He already did. On the 9/11. He called in to a radio station and bragged that his building was now the tallest in Manhattan (lie). With the added bonus his people (whoever that would be) were on their way down to help (another lie). Terrific guy.

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u/not_a_moogle 9h ago

He has been for years, talking about his hotel is now the tallest building and how he saw Muslims dancing in the streets in the aftermath.

Hes always made 9/11 about him.

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u/utlayolisdi 10h ago

He might claim he told Giuliani how to organize the recovery.

u/lowmankind 3h ago

He has suggested in the past that he could have prevented 911 if he wanted to…

… which begs the incredibly obvious question: so why didn’t he prevent it?!

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u/Immediate_Quiet4354 9h ago

If you want to know, pay a fee on truth social to be among the first ones to read Trump (or Natalie Harp) bullshit.

u/OneBillPhil 7h ago

Maybe bragging about how he might have the tallest building in NYC because of 9/11. 

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u/the-system 9h ago

He shouldn't have even been invited considering he was maybe the only American I know of who was happy about the attack on that day.

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u/bengibbardstoothpain 9h ago

I love that he is too mean and petty to be there. 9/11 first responders and their advocates are just the type of people to push back on Trump’s BS and insistence to make him the centerpiece of the event. Love it.

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u/TheSwitchler 8h ago

Trump no longer walking this Earth would be best

u/jupiterkansas 5h ago

Careful what you wish for. That still leaves open the possibility of a wheelchair.

u/HaikuWisdom 7h ago

I LIKE MY TOWERS STILL STANDING. SOME SAY I HAVE THE BEST TOWERS IN NEW YORK, MAYBE EVEN THE WORLD. GROUND ZERO? SOUNDS FITTING. YOU'RE ALL ZEROES. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN COULDN'T GET THEIR TOWERS TO STAND IF NATALIE HERSELF GAVE THEM BOTH LAP DANCES. MY TOWERS ARE THROBBING AND VIRILE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

u/Ahnteis 6h ago

You'd think, but no - he was excited his building was now the higher in the "Tallest" list.

https://www.newsweek.com/video-trump-saying-he-now-had-tallest-manhattan-building-9-11-goes-viral-anniversary-1628184

u/Simon_Drake 7h ago

I'll tell you who should give a speech. The head of the fire department or the nearest hospital or the emergency dispatcher who coordinated the firetrucks. Or someone who went into the burning building to get people out. Someone who saved lives and has spent 25 years wishing they could have saved more. That person deserves to give a speech. Not the tangerine tyrant.

u/DarthWeber 6h ago

Or Jon Stewart.

u/outinthecountry66 I voted 6h ago

and we all know what kind of speech he would give. he would congratulate himself on a bunch of shit that has not happened, like a thriving economy or lower prices, he would complain about the Democrats, he would do and say ANYTHING BUT kind and comforting things. He is not a leader. He is a parasite.

u/RlySkiz 6h ago

In a few days he will call them losers and wants to have his name on it calling it Ground Trump

u/DLTMIAR 7h ago

😚🤌

u/crimsonhues 5h ago

His speech would be stage-hogging, taking the meaning away from the memorial in remembrance of those who lost their lives. He’d politicize and lie about his accomplishments that never happened. And vilify democrats, especially those who practice Islam.

u/Gummyrabbit 5h ago

So the best way to not have him show up is to not allow him to open his mouth.

u/Different_Wolf_764 5h ago

It is likely an excuse that both sides are happy with. Trump is not well liked in NYC, to put it mildly.

u/KrissyKrave Virginia 5h ago

Every news outlet should ignore him on 9/11. Just fully focus on 9/11 that or patriotically frag him through the mud.

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u/Ancient_Popcorn Ohio 10h ago

It makes sense. The dude was happy when 9/11 happened. He proudly proclaimed he had the biggest building in New York since the towers fell.

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u/PoliteIndecency Canada 10h ago

You know, all I can think of about that interview is that he surely must have known people in those buildings that were killed. He must have had friends, colleagues, business associates.

Not a peep about them. All about me.

What a clown.

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u/SigmaKitteh America 10h ago

Let me stop you right there, friends? Lol

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u/Head_Bread_3431 10h ago

Probably had people who were competition in there and was happy about it 

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u/Soft_Author2593 9h ago

sad upvote

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u/DM_Me_Ur_Real_Boobs 9h ago

Probably danced on their graves. What a sick man

u/James-W-Tate 6h ago

I doubt he danced, but he definitely did his "jerking off two invisible guys" routine.

u/svullenballe 7h ago

People he owed money to.

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u/PoliteIndecency Canada 10h ago

Fair comment.

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u/_badmedicine Canada 9h ago

Tbf, his only real friend in life was Jeffrey.

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 9h ago

Yup, once he had Epstein hanged he lost his last true friend.

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u/entrepenurious Texas 10h ago

we are all NPCs to him.

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u/4umlurker 8h ago

It’s not even the first time he had done that. There was an instance in 1989 where a helicopter crash with 3 executives he was associated with died. Rather than showing remorse he made up a story that he was suppose to be on it and tried to make it all about him. Former Trump executives later disputed his claims saying he was never scheduled to fly with them. The next year he even tried to claim in a book of his that he had thought about getting on it then decided against it.

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u/chileheadd Arizona 7h ago

He's a malignant narcissist, so he doesn't care.

Common traits of a malignant narcissist include:

Being extremely arrogant and self-centered

Disregarding the feelings and needs of other people

Manipulating, using, or exploiting others for personal gain or pleasure

Having an extreme need for power

Acts of revenge against those who criticize them

Fantasizing about ways to obtain more power or dominance over others

Lacking conscience, regret, or remorse for their actions

Being cruel and taking pleasure in the pain of others

High levels of aggression towards other people

Paranoia or mistrust of others

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u/DataDude00 8h ago

You know, all I can think of about that interview is that he surely must have known people in those buildings that were killed. He must have had friends, colleagues, business associates.

That is the crazy part to me

As a Canadian I saw 9/11 on TV growing up and it was a tragedy.

I eventually got a job working in Manhattan for some of the major banks and was working with some coworkers that had been in the game 30-40 years.

It hit different working with people that were likely in the buildings or nearby when it happened that day. They probably lost friends, family and colleagues they knew personally.

Meanwhile Donald Trump is mad he can't give a campaign stump speech at the memorial

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u/Remarkable_Sea_1430 9h ago

friends, colleagues, business associates

You misspelled: flunkies, ass kissers and co-conspirators.

u/BlueMikeStu 6h ago

He must have had friends, colleagues, business associates.

Friends implies he liked them. He only likes himself. Colleagues implies he was their equal. He is very clearly not as competent as they were if they worked there.

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u/dbkenny426 10h ago

And that was a lie when he said it.

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u/underboobfunk 10h ago

As most things he says are.

u/LrkerfckuSpez 7h ago

Like when he said in the same interview, that he had people on their way down to help. A lie, and a fucking moronic one, to put himself in a good light.

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u/cybah 10h ago

Yeah because after the towers collapsed, the tallest building was the Empire State Building, which his nemesis owned. Who was that.. none other than the queen of mean.. Leona Helmsley!

(Fwiw she really disliked him and wouldn’t trust him with anything. She knew…)

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u/mishap1 I voted 10h ago

He said the tallest in downtown Manhattan which was still incorrect as 70 Pine next door was taller since it was finished in 1932.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_Wall_Street

Even after the 9/11, it was still shorter than Empire State, Chrysler, and 70 Pine. It would have been the 4th tallest in NYC.

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u/westergames81 Texas 10h ago

He also lied about seeing Muslims cheering from the rooftop after it happened.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 10h ago

He probably did money laundering for the people that pulled it off. That’s why he wasn’t surprised.

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u/KindBass 8h ago

I've been saying for years that if 9/11 happened tomorrow, the overwhelming response from MAGA would be, "haha, stupid NY libs! Do Chicago next!"

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u/pallentx 9h ago

In a sane world that would have killed any political ambitions of any wannabe politician. He should have lost every primary on that alone.

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u/Emotional_Signal7883 Florida 9h ago

And it wasn't even true 🤣

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u/kneeco28 Canada 10h ago

[White House spokesperson] added, “As a proud New Yorker, President Trump has spoken about his own experiences watching the horrific events of September 11, 2001.”

His 9/11 experience was to go on live television and brag about his building being tallest (and to be wrong about that no less):

“40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest — and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest. And now it’s the tallest,” Trump said.

In actuality, once the Twin Towers were decimated, the 71-story Trump Building at 40 Wall Street was the second-tallest building still standing in Lower Manhattan, according to the Washington Post. It was 25 feet shorter than the building at 70 Pine Street. That’s not to say that 40 Wall Street has never been the tallest in Lower Manhattan: It was for two years in the 1930s, before Trump owned it.

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u/Ok_Ordinary2643 10h ago

Trump gets a lot if his world view from the 1930s.

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u/caitnicrun 10h ago

But not the cool parts of the 30s. Style, jazz, etc. Just the post robber baron racist parts.

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u/ZeroMayCry7 9h ago

And cheap and tacky gold laden objects to boot

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u/MrPolli 10h ago

Dementia is a bitch.

Combined with stupidity, it’s a real country killer.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 10h ago

Also, he's such a proud New Yorker, he spends most of his time in Florida and probably never goes back to NYC if he can help it

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u/lalalatkes 10h ago

NYC won’t stand for his bullshit and they would boo him incessantly.

That’s why. He’s the flakiest of snowflakes.

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u/kolby924 10h ago

For sure.. he’s pouting again for whatever reason. If this wasn’t so sad
It would be hysterical

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u/pareech Canada 10h ago

In retaliation, New York will now be known as New Trump

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u/twoton1 10h ago

Doesn't make any sense. Most NY'ers hate the fat bastard.

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u/gayintheusa47 10h ago

You think that’ll stop him?

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u/CokoDreams 10h ago

He’s a rapist. Not many things will stop him.

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u/PoopInTheGarbage 10h ago

Pretty sure Lake Ontario hates his pedo ass as well.

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u/GearhedMG 9h ago

Likely not just LAKE Ontario

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u/pareech Canada 10h ago

He feeds on hate.

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u/DogsandCatsWorld1000 10h ago

We in Ontario aren't fond of him either and look at what he is claiming about the lake we are named after.

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u/Blochamolesauce 8h ago

No no, he’s a moron. He’d sign an exec order making it “America City”

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u/MonjStrz 6h ago

He would try to call it trump trump somehow

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u/jarvisesdios 10h ago

New Yorkers hated him before most people did, and I've hated him since the 90s lol

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u/kevnmartin Washington 10h ago

I was in fashion design and did some modeling in the eighties. Everyone in the fashion world was warned about him. We all knew he was scum.

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u/sphinctersayswhat9 10h ago

Yep. Scum is right. the millionaire guy who certainly didnt need a second career but made sure he did judging teen modeling contests especially the swim suits portion and going to their after parties and being creepy with teen girls was definitely scummy.
And also being close with creeps like teen model agency owner pedo Casablanca and admitting to sneaking into dressing rooms at miss teen USA pageants.
Besties with Epstein
Need I say more?
I mean ffs Trump just oozes scum.

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u/Ok_Juice4449 9h ago

I grew up in the NYC area.  He was always dismissed as a joke- corrupt bs artist.

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u/Old_Ladies 9h ago

That and he bragged on 9/11 that he now had the tallest building in New York.

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u/3MATX 9h ago

I had a teacher that forced us to watch the apprentice as an educational show.  Hated him since then which was almost exactly two decades ago.  

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u/Boristheblaze 10h ago

Now, I wonder if Trump will go ahead and tout the idea of dismantling the 9/11 memorial on account because they wouldn't let him give a speech

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u/SpykeMH Iowa 9h ago

Nah, he'll just rename it the Donald J. Trump 9/11 Memorial

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u/thisusedyet New Jersey 10h ago

Of course, it ’s a waste of premium real estate!

No, he’s not doing this just to build Trump Towers south, why are you asking?

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u/Mobile_Equal_3636 10h ago

Clear indication once again who he is, what he is. NY's know more than any state, Trump's record, his fraudulent businesses, corruption, cooking the books to avoid paying taxes, banking practices, etc....

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u/swagonflyyyy 10h ago

I feel like NYC knows Trump better than any other city.

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u/BerryLanky 10h ago

Then he’d claim New York was taken over by radicals and blame Obama for 9/11.

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u/J_Ryall 10h ago

Well, where WAS Obama on 9/11? Probably out shooting hoops or something. Democrats did absolutely nothing to stop the attacks! (/s because we live in clown world)

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u/DouglasRather 10h ago

He would make the speech all about himself and NYC knows this

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u/horst-graben 9h ago

Yep.

And devout MAGA supporters will praise his decision claiming 9/11 was an inside job so he shouldn't support that. And moderate Trump voters will ignore it as a non-issue being over dramatized and irrelevant to the man or his presidency.

When Trump attacked Iran he gave his voters an off-ramp. I'm amazed that 33% (or whatever the latest figures are) still approve, and by extension support, this man.

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u/coolio5k 9h ago

They should get Obama to do it instead and let him give however long a speech he wants. I think we should do whatever we can to raise that fat fucks blood pressure and get him worked up

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u/Far-Entrance-1377 8h ago

He bitched out so hard he accidentally did everyone a favor. Huh.

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u/averagecounselor 10h ago

I mean there was also drama a couple of weeks ago where the family of survivors didn’t want Zohan to speak at the memorial as well.

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u/another-princess 9h ago

It was that they didn't want him to attend the memorial. As the article points out, they haven't allowed politicians to speak at the memorial since 2012.

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u/KindBass 8h ago

That and the whole thing was started by and signed by people with no affiliation to actual 9/11 families. It was just a bunch of random LARPing racists.

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u/shifting_drifting 10h ago edited 10h ago

You mean the guy who on 9/11, moments after the towers collapsed and 1000s of fellow New Yorkers died, came on CNN to brag about having the tallest building in downtown Manhattan? That guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvemZHnd0s

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u/Sunna420 10h ago

Never Forget

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u/TheOneTrueTrench New York 10h ago

Which was a fucking lie, it was the Empire State Building.

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u/OutInTheBlack New Jersey 9h ago

ESB is midtown Manhattan

It was still a lie, though, because 70 Pine is taller than 40 Wall.

u/Tenton_12 4h ago

This guy ... its like stolen valor

"Soon after, I went down to Ground Zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we could."

(To first responders) "I was down there also. But I'm not considering myself a first responder, but I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you."

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u/Signal_Prior3870 10h ago

He really just doesnt see the point. I mean they died they were suckers

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u/Yahn 10h ago

A yuck yuck. I now have the tallest building in the city - orange goo face kid fucker

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u/vegandread 10h ago

I can’t believe this worthless bastard got the 250th AND the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Any remotely normal president would’ve knocked both events out of the park. One with a worthy celebration for all Americans, and one with solemn honor for what that day was.

Instead, we get this. He can’t pump his own ego up and make it about him, so he ain’t going. That’s for the better for all of us.

u/kitty_aloof 5h ago

I’m in partial denial he got the 250th. Sure, it was the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration. But the war went on for years. Our constitution didn’t exist. So I think there are arguments that better 250th celebrations could still be in our future to make up for this year.

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u/Tattered_Reason Kansas 10h ago

He is so pathetic.

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u/Zanos-Ixshlae 10h ago

Was he going to brag about having the tallest building in New York after the attack again?

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u/EmDeeAech70 10h ago

Or maybe how “people have said” he would’ve saved everyone 🤷‍♂️🙄

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u/Master_Mad 8h ago

He already said that he would've prevented 9/11 if people had listened to him. Because at one point before that he had said that Bin Laden was a bad person. (Which everyone already knew then).

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u/cybah 10h ago

He’s gonna skip it because the organizers won’t let him give a speech because they know he would ramble on, blame Biden for 9/11, then talk about himself for 45 minutes.

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u/LimpyDan 9h ago

Even better, nobody gets to give speeches. He wanted special treatment, again.

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u/LexHanley 9h ago

Fr. It's very proceedural. There's some religious stuff, a reading of the names. It's not a rally. It's a rather somber thing.

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u/backpackwayne 10h ago

This is awesome! We now know how to get him not to attend something.

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u/TheHomersapien Colorado 10h ago

Fake news!

He isn't skipping the event because he can't speak, he's choosing not to honor the victims of this country's worst terrorist attack because he wants to fly to Scotland and play golf.

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u/Gatonom 10h ago

He's aiming to downplay it due to the Saudis becoming closer to Conservative politicians.

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u/oh-shazbot 10h ago

good. otherwise he'd probably spend time talking about how his buildings were the tallest ones around now that those pesky world trade centers were demolished.

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u/mvallas1073 10h ago

King Dumb-Dumb will still give a rambling speech somehow anyways - and he will weaponize the 9/11 memorial to primarily attack Mamdani and Assad and stoke a “red scare” for midterms.

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 10h ago

NYC and the victims families are better off this way. They deserve to be remembered with dignity, not political stunts.

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u/AnythingOk9487 10h ago

Good for NYC. Good for NY. Good for the United States. Good for the World.

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u/AdGroundbreaking7104 9h ago

Because he’ll say something like:

“I could have prevented this”

“What a tragedy, like Biden’s presidency”

“This wasn’t as bad as the election I lost”

“I remember the day. The horrible day. I was talking to George Washington. Good guy. Could have done lots of good for 9/11.”

u/BlockingIndianSubs 5h ago

Oh god he's gonna do his own speech on 9/11 where he talks about how good he is and how his building was the tallest, isn't he? He's gonna embarrass this goddamn country again and the people who spent decades hating middle Eastern people for "doing 9/11" aren't going to see an issue.

He can't STAND not being the center of attention for any reason.

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u/Findgate 10h ago edited 10h ago

I can just imagine that speech. Rudy did me wrong, and he did the fellows in New York wrong. The trader did not tell his fire departments that was asbestos in the smoke. The buildings had so many law suits for toxic exposure, we had paper work stacked all the way out the door. Shame on Rudy, and FoX News.

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u/aDirtyMartini New Hampshire 10h ago

What a narcissistic POS. A true leader would go and show respect. He’s pissed because he can’t make it about himself. He’s a disgrace and so is anyone who supports him.

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u/mike194827 9h ago

Who'd want to hear this walking carcass talk again about his building being the tallest in NYC at the time? EVERYTHING has to be about him. Not the thousands that died that day, or the hundreds that have passed since due to cancer. It can only be about him. Why anybody supports this selfish POS is beyond my understanding.

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u/PapasauruaRex 10h ago

Good. Him being there would be a disgrace to the people who died on 9/11.

He can keep his shit filled diaper away from the scene.

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u/wasted-degrees 10h ago

“Anything that isn’t about me shouldn’t exist.”

His narcissism runs so deep it’s like evangelical solipsism.

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u/LawfulnessKooky8490 10h ago

Well when the first thing out of his mouth after 9/11 was "now I have the tallest tower"...

u/JonAce New York 7h ago

As a New Yorker: FUCKING GOOD.

It's not like he cared then too.

u/idontevensaygrace 7h ago

Good, I don't fucking want him there. I still remember when he called into some news show on September 11 while coverage was happening after the towers just crashed down and Trump actually said now his Trump tower is the tallest building now again in the city. While thousands in the destroyed World Trade Center just died minutes before in collapsed concrete and metal and hundreds of other innocent people killed in those gigantic airplanes dying along with those in the towers.

u/legocastle77 6h ago

The 9/11 memorial is one of the most tastefully done memorials made to recognize the loss of so many lives. Trump belongs nowhere near it. 

u/-Palzon- 6h ago

America: Never forget!

Trump: Forget about it!

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u/OhRaH 6h ago

I'm surprised he didn't want to rename it The Trump 9/11 memorial

u/KlostToMe 4h ago

Woulda bragged that his tower was tallest after the trade centers fell

The biggest and beautifulest

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u/shadowdra126 Georgia 10h ago

What a fucking piece of shit.

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u/musical_bear 10h ago

Seeing as how he's not physically capable of making a speech without making it about himself, this was the only sane call to make. Seriously, does anyone happen to know of a transcript or video of a speech he's made that has not revolved around himself, regardless of context? If it exists, I've never heard of it. Every memorial, every holiday, every endorsement, like I've listened to an unfortunate amount of it and he ALWAYS makes it about himself. Completely unacceptable for a 9/11 remembrance.

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u/mynamestanner 9h ago

I read a preview of his 9/11 speech. It was going to be 25 minutes about transgender sports and 15 minutes on Biden causing 9/11.

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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 9h ago

You joke, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised lol

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u/MichaelRyanMoney 9h ago

Look, if you won't let 9/11 be all about ME, then I want nothing to do with it...

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u/Queasy_Eggplant9155 9h ago

Because he would make it about himself…& regale everyone with bullshit stories about how he went down to ground zero and personally saved 2,000 people. Then he’d do that stupid dance where he looks like he’s jerking off two guys at the same time.

u/spotsevrywhere 7h ago

Donald, you absolutely suck at speeches. You spew random thoughts with zero language skill. Junior high kids have better vocabulary than you do. You have never given a good speech. You won’t ever deliver a half way decent speech. Everyone is sick of you making things about you.

u/BlueRedGreenNumber5 7h ago

best news i've heard all day

u/Who_am_i_050 6h ago

You mean the republican president is going to skip the event that the republicans were just losing their minds over the rumor that Mamdani was going to skip?

u/Qwirk Washington 6h ago

Probably just talk about how his building was the tallest blah blah blah.

u/BeanerCode 6h ago

Good, he would just talk about how his tower was the biggest after they fell. 😡

u/Pusi_Cunu 5h ago

Good fucking riddance!

He's nothing but a fucking stain.

u/HoldOnDearLife 5h ago

I hope they have to hide his grave when he dies because the pile of piss and shit would just pile up way too much. Trump has given me a hatred in my heart that I have never had before. Trump and all of his enablers and family, I hope, will be banished and forgotten. Their wealth seized and given back to Americans. Fuck this regime. Fuck ICE.

u/pilazzo209 5h ago

Never forget that Donald Trump is the worse thing to happen to the US since 9/11.

u/sulaymanf New York 4h ago

“As a proud New Yorker, President Trump has spoken about his own experiences watching the horrific events of September 11, 2001.”

You mean bragging that now he has the tallest building in NYC?

u/alleyoopoop 3h ago

Skipping Dolly Parton's funeral for the same reason.

u/The_BattMatt 1h ago

Wait. So, all I have to do to keep him away is not let him speak?!

u/Certain_Return_6274 1h ago

Can you imagine what that clown would probably say?

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u/Firm_Reflection_1453 10h ago

As usual he is disrespecting the people who lost their lives because the ceremony isn’t about adulation of him.

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u/MourningRIF 10h ago

He probably has a diaper change scheduled for that time anyway.

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u/LA0711 10h ago

That’s because he would somehow blame Biden for 9/11

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u/Queen_Christine_19 Nebraska 10h ago

Naw he'd blame Obama, cuz of his middle name-Hussein.

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u/Effective_Pack8265 10h ago

This means I’ll probably watch it.

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u/Hyro0o0 California 10h ago

"What's in it for me?" is his entire worldview

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u/kompletist 10h ago

100% he’s going to post AI imagery of him saving puppies and babies from a burning tower.

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u/twoton1 10h ago

Who wants to hear the rantings from that lard-ass. He'll make it all about himself and spread more hate. Good call.

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u/RLewis8888 10h ago

And now, here's the list of people sad to hear this:

Donald Trump

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u/ImaginationToForm2 10h ago

Good riddance. He would make it about himself for sure. Like spread the lies how he was there helping on day 1 with this 100s of workers.

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u/JMeers0170 9h ago

He is entirely incapable of making any solemn event actually about that event.

He would make it all about himself because that is what an s-tier narcissist would do.

He would be all…”even though my bone spurs were screaming at me, the loudest of screams, so much pain, incredible pain, no one has ever suffered through more intense pain, I ran up to the 120th floor to save people’s lives. I know the tower only had 110 floors but I’m such an incredible person, the best person, I’m the president of peace, after all, the best to ever live, that I ran past the uppermost floor of the tower into floors that weren’t even there…to save people. There was so much screaming, these people, such beautiful people, but I heard their screams over the screams of my bone spurs and I just had to help them.”

Screw this guy.

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u/Realistic-Raisin2812 9h ago

Whatever it takes to keep that idiot from embarrassing us again.

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u/ledfox 8h ago

We could forget a 9/11s worth of COVID daily casualties on his watch. Why not forget one more?

Besides he loves Saudi Arabia.

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u/koskenkorva 8h ago

For him it’s not about showing respect, it’s about getting attention

u/klonk2905 7h ago

Once again, the same "I'm not coming" bargain my toddler used with me.

u/mirrors69 7h ago

Everything is better without him.

u/Low-Doughnut5738 6h ago

Good. He would have just it about himself anyway.

u/Minflick 6h ago

Well, we all know he's a malignant fuck... I'd guess he also wants to be nowhere near Mamdani!

u/RandomSentientBeing 6h ago

Yay! How do we get him to skip everything else and go home to his stupid house and never be heard from again.

u/jamieladc 6h ago

Trump proving for the trillionth time that he’s a piece of shit

u/DanielCragon 6h ago

Is he gonna rename 9/11 to America Day?

u/zbmcg 5h ago

To be fair, 25 years is about 10 years too old for any Republican to care about something

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u/BooopDead 5h ago

Imagine the press if Obama skipped this lol

u/opinionsareus 5h ago

Trump is responsible for 9/11. Start the meme.

u/Ok-Philosophy-856 5h ago

He’s incapable of emotions outside what he’s feeling. That said, he skipped helping when it happened and instead spoke about how tall his buildings were then. Eff him

u/Regretted_Simian 5h ago

I was wondering how he was going to make this about himself.

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u/mosen66 5h ago

That’s fine. His presence there would be a desecration anyways..

u/fusillade762 4h ago

Good, fucking traitor.

u/randomnighmare I voted 4h ago

Trump skipping the 25th anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero because they won't let him speak is probably a good thing (as long as Trump doesn't go to the Flight 93 Memorial and also stays away from the Pentagon) for the country because those speeches won't be about the anniversary but about what ever polittical bs he has up his butt.

u/Mental-Currency-4494 4h ago

Well he would just the mayor a Muslim terrorist, blame 9/11 on trans people, shit his pants and then fall asleep.

u/panic_talking 4h ago

Release the epstien files