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WASHINGTON \u2014 At an event ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9\/11, President Donald Trump<\/a> told a story Tuesday in which he said two firefighters picked him up off the ground near the U.S. Steel Building close to ground zero \u201cright after\u201d the terrorist attacks and whisked him away because they thought the building was going to collapse on them.
\u201cI\u2019ll never forget two firemen, we thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big, strong guys. And I\u2019m not the smallest guy in the world. They grabbed me under the arm, said, \u2018Got to get out of here,\u2019\u201d Trump said, without specifying exactly when the incident occurred.
\u201cThey literally lifted me up. This 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,\u201d he added.
Trump, who said in his remarks that he was \u201cdown there right after this happened,\u201d later said on Truth Social<\/a> that he was not at the World Trade Center \u201con the same day as the collapse, but shortly thereafter.\u201d
\u201cEverything I said was exactly accurate,\u201d he said of his remarks at the Ellipse outside the White House, sharing a TV news clip of him speaking after the attacks.
Asked for more clarity about Trump\u2019s timeline and actions following 9\/11, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said he \u201cwas relaying his experience of a city reeling immediately after and in the days and weeks after the horrific attacks.\u201d
Trump has told the firefighter story at least once before, during a January 2016 campaign stop in New Hampshire.
He has spoken many times<\/a> about what he saw on Sept. 11, 2001, and his actions in the immediate aftermath. Here\u2019s a look back at what he has said, much of which has not been independently verified.
In an interview with Fox News host Trey Gowdy, which aired in part Sunday, Trump said he watched as the second plane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
\u201cI\u2019m watching, and I saw the second plane hit, and you saw that come, and you\u2019re watching it, and it\u2019s \u2014 because I watched the air patterns for years, and you, you know, you know where the planes are. They go up right up the Hudson River. This thing was coming right into the second building. And I said, \u2018Wow!\u2019 So I watched that happen,\u201d Trump said in the interview, shortly after he said he watched the scene unfold from his midtown apartment.
Trump also said he went down to ground zero on Sept. 12, telling Gowdy he \u201cworked long and hard\u201d with a team of construction workers to help at the scene.
\u201cI was building a building in New York, and I had a lot of construction workers. And I went down there very shortly thereafter. The following day \u2014 you couldn\u2019t go down the same day, but, like, the following day, very, very quickly afterwards. And we worked long and hard, but it was just so terrible and so hopeless,\u201d he said.
At a campaign rally in Buffalo, New York, Trump said he helped clear rubble after the attacks.
Trump was talking about \u201cNew York values,\u201d speaking about restaurants and businesses that stayed open to help first responders and others in need.
\u201cThese people were going through terror, and you know what happened? Everyone who helped clear the rubble \u2014 and I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit,\u201d Trump said, adding, \u201cYou didn\u2019t know what was gonna come down on all of us.\u201d
Trump said at a Nov. 23, 2015, campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, that he saw people jump out of the twin towers from a window in his apartment.
Trump Tower, where Trump lived at the time, is four miles from ground zero.
\u201cMany people jumped, and I witnessed it, I watched that. I have a view \u2014 a view in my apartment that was specifically aimed at the World Trade Center. And I watched those people jump, and I watched the second plane hit. … I saw the second plane hit the building, and I said, \u2018Wow that\u2019s unbelievable,\u2019\u201d he said.
He had told a local news station in a phone interview on Sept. 11, 2001, that he had spoken to someone that day who witnessed \u201cat least 10 people\u201d jumping out of the twin towers.
Trump fed into a conspiracy theory that \u201cthousands\u201d of people cheered in New Jersey as the twin towers fell, telling supporters at a Nov. 21, 2015, campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama, that he witnessed celebrations in Jersey City.
\u201cI watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering,\u201d Trump said.
He told George Stephanopoulos on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d<\/a> in November 2015, \u201cThere were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations.\u201d
\u201cThey were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down \u2014 as those buildings came down \u2014 and that tells you something. It was well covered at the time.\u201d
There is no evidence that thousands of people celebrated in New Jersey following the attack. Local police debunked rumors at the time that people cheered.
Tara Prindiville is a White House producer for NBC News.
Raquel Coronell Uribe is a politics reporter for NBC News.
© 2026 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n

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