{"id":261908,"date":"2026-09-08T21:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/donald-trump-accused-of-lying-about-being-rescued-by-firefighters-on-9-11\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:01:37","slug":"donald-trump-accused-of-lying-about-being-rescued-by-firefighters-on-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/donald-trump-accused-of-lying-about-being-rescued-by-firefighters-on-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Accused of Lying About Being Rescued By Firefighters on 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This week marks the 25th anniversary of arguably the greatest tragedy in modern American history.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,000 civilians lost their lives in the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, and countless more would die in the lengthy military campaigns that followed.<\/p>\n<p>The memory of those events should be enough to unify Americans in shared grief \u2014 but it\u2019s 2026, and these days, we\u2019re all incapable of being normal about anything.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294161678-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump departs after speaking during a &quot;Steel Across America&quot; event ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the Ellipse near the White House on September 08, 2026 in Washington, DC. \" class=\"wp-image-562645 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294161678-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294161678-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294161678-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294161678-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294161678-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294161678-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294161678-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294161678-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump departs after speaking during a \u201cSteel Across America\u201d event ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the Ellipse near the White House on September 08, 2026 in Washington, DC. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to young people who are attempting to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FudgeFuturistic\/status\/2095925797898903675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">downplay the severity of the events of 9\/11<\/a> on social media, today saw President Trump repeating a widely disputed story about his whereabouts during the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Trump began by repeating a claim he first made in 2016, explaining that he was near Ground Zero with \u201ca big group of people\u201d when the first plane hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be honest, it was raw and nobody\u2019s seen anything like it ever,\u201d the president said (via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-9-11-ground-zero-story-timeline-12416261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newsweek<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was there when we actually thought the U.S. Steel building was coming down, and I\u2019ll never forget that I was standing next to these two massive wonderful firemen, and we heard a screech \u2026 and everybody thought that the U.S. Steel building was coming down and it was not so far from us,\u201d he continued, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019ll never forget two firemen. We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big, strong guys \u2014 and I\u2019m not the smallest guy in the world \u2014 they grabbed me under the arm, said, \u2018Got to get out of here!\u2019 And they literally lifted me up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DdCM15yDsaX\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>\u201cAnd these two guys there were massive guys, two really big \u2014 because I\u2019m a big guy and they grabbed me. I must tell you honestly, I never knew I could run that fast,\u201d Trump continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not easy to do. I\u2019m big. They lifted me up and they started running with me. I said, \u2018Fellas, I can run myself,\u2019 but they were amazing. But they thought it was coming down. It didn\u2019t come down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly a compelling story. But is it true?<\/p>\n<p>Across social media, commenters have been quick to point out the apparent inaccuracies in Trump\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DdCM5TpTOUf\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>As Barstool Sports journalist Kevin Clancy points out, Trump gave several interviews in the immediate aftermath of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>And at no time did he claim that he was close to Ground Zero or that he had been rescued by firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the whole thing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/09\/trump-hillary-clinton-september-11-911-attacks-nyc-214236\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump told Howard Stern<\/a> the day after the attacks, explaining that he had windows from which he could see the World Trade Center. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, specifically, I have two windows that are focused on the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/09\/donald-trump-threatens-rename-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump enjoys making grandiose statements<\/a> regardless of whether or not there\u2019s any truth to them.<\/p>\n<p>But lying about 9\/11 seems a bit extreme even by his standards.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/09\/donald-trump-accused-of-lying-about-being-rescued-by-firefighters-on-9-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes This week marks the 25th anniversary of arguably the greatest tragedy in modern American history. More than 3,000 civilians lost their lives in the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, and countless more would die in the lengthy military campaigns that followed. The memory of those events should be enough to unify Americans in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}