Trump's 9/11 narrative: memory and hyperbole, 15 years later

Trump's 9/11 narrative: memory and hyperbole, 15 years later

Every American of a assertive age has a 9/11 adventure — active memories of area they were, what they saw, how they acquainted on that abominable day.

Donald Trump is one of them.

And for New Yorkers like him, 9/11 melds contiguous acquaintance with what they acquainted in their guts, what they saw on television and what was arena out in the lives of accompany and admired ones in a city-limits beneath siege.

Trump generally invokes his 9/11 memories to highlight the courage apparent on that day and how his home boondocks pulled calm in a time of crisis. The billionaire businessman, whose backing on 9/11 included some 20 barrio in Manhattan, aswell is decumbent to adornment — what he referred to in one of his books as "truthful hyperbole."

n the case of 9/11, Trump's band amid anamnesis and hyperbole appears to be blurry. A attending at some of his contempo comments about the attacks:

"PEOPLE WERE CHEERING"

"I watched if the World Trade Center came aerobatics down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, area bags and bags of humans were auspicious as that architecture was advancing down. Bags of humans were cheering." — Trump, at a November assemblage in Birmingham, Alabama. He added in a televised interview: "It did happen. I saw it. It was on television. I saw it."

Footage of Muslims in Middle Eastern countries auspicious account of the attacks was advertisement on television in the canicule afterward Sept. 11. There is no affirmation in account athenaeum of accumulation celebrations by Muslims in Jersey City, beyond the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan with bright angle of the World Trade Center site. Some letters and rumors did apparent of Muslims adulatory in Paterson, New Jersey, but none was substantiated.

"I HELPED"

"Everyone who helped bright the rubble. And I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit. But I wish to acquaint you: Those humans were amazing. Clearing the rubble. Trying to acquisition added lives. You didn't apperceive what was traveling to appear down on all of us and they handled it." — Trump, at a assemblage Monday in Buffalo, New York.

It's not bright how Trump helped. His attack didn't acknowledge to questions about what he did. In an account with a German account aperture two canicule afterwards the attacks, Trump said he had been to Ground Zero and had "a lot of men down here, appropriate now. We accept over 100 and we accept about 125 coming. So we'll accept a brace of hundred humans down here. And they are actual adventurous and what they're accomplishing is amazing. And we'll be complex in some anatomy in allowance to reconstruct."

Trump's 9/11 narrative: memory and hyperbole, 15 years later

"I WATCHED AS PEOPLE JUMPED"

"I accept a window in my accommodation that accurately was aimed at the World Trade Center because of the adorableness of the accomplished city Manhattan and I watched as humans jumped. And I watched the additional even appear in. Many humans jumped and I witnessed it, I watched that." — Trump, during a November assemblage in Columbus, Ohio.

Trump's accommodation in midtown Manhattan is almost four afar from the World Trade Center site. He has not explained what he could see from that distance. Some images of humans jumping were captured on reside television.

"I LOST HUNDREDS OF FRIENDS"

TRUMP: "I absent hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down during the administration of George Bush. He kept us safe? That is not safe." — Trump, during a GOP agitation in February.

Trump hasn't provided a account of those he knew who perished. He has mentioned alive Friar Mychael Judge, a Catholic priest who died while confined as clergyman to the city's blaze department.

"I WAS DOWN THERE"

TRUMP: "I was down there and I watched our badge and our firemen down on 7/11, down at the World Trade Center appropriate afterwards it came down. And I saw the greatest humans I've anytime apparent in action. I saw the bravest humans I've anytime seen, including the architecture workers, including every being down there. That's what New York ethics are about." — Trump, at a assemblage this anniversary in Buffalo, New York.

Trump's advertence to "7/11" was a blooper of the lip. Account accounts from canicule just afterwards 9/11 cover references to Trump giving high-fives to badge admiral and volunteers on their way to the World Trade Center site. "I accept a lot of men alive down here. I wish to accomplish abiding they're OK," he said. Trump said his administration were charwoman and digging out, but beneath to say area they were working.

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