Trump's Dubious 9/11 Claims Are Back And They've Sparked An Amazing Hashtag

"I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you."
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Donald Trump has once again exaggerated his role in the rescue of people caught up in the 9/11 terror attacks, this time claiming he “spent a lot of time” with emergency responders.

Speaking in the White House Rose Garden on Monday, the president offered no evidence to back up his claim.

While signing a law to provide permanent financial aid to survivors and first responders who became ill after working at the site of the fallen Twin Towers, Trump said: “Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers and other first responders.

“And I was down there also. But I am not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you.”

Trump has a dubious track record when it comes to the 9/11 attacks – see below – and his latest comments sparked the mocking hashtag #LostTrumpHistory.

In 2019, astronomer Donald Trump discovered that the Moon was a part of Mars.

#LostTrumpHistory

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 29, 2019

Trump painted the Mona Lisa and gave the painting away because she wasn’t his type #LostTrumpHistory

— ((Wry™)) (@RIWry77) July 29, 2019

"I wont call myself an astronaut, but I was there when we landed on the moon"#LostTrumpHistory pic.twitter.com/q4LBTKB4vf

— Hambino, The Great (@Hambino15) July 29, 2019

Trump was at Ground Zero after the attacks, but his vague implication that he was lending a hand to the first responders looking for survivors is completely unsubstantiated.

A local news paper reported on 14 September 2001 that he was in the area the previous day.

The workers are so worn out that they barely glance at the sight of Donald Trump, every hair in place and impeccably dressed in a black suit, pressed white shirt and red tie, walking into the plaza with his cellular phone to his ear.

“No, no. The building’s gone,” he says into the phone.

The first American to scale Mount Everest #LostTrumpHistory pic.twitter.com/4p1iK1rxLQ

— Private Joker, USMC (@Infantry0300) July 29, 2019

He was also interviewed by a German outlet on the same day, but again was impeccably dressed in a suit, not overalls.

During the interview Trump claimed he had “a lot of men” helping out but an investigation by PolitiFact could not find any evidence to substantiate the claims.

Trump received a Purple Heart for not contracting an STD during Vietnam War. #LostTrumpHistory pic.twitter.com/1bNChn3ApI

— Marty & mom (@colleengrott) July 29, 2019

Trump’s dubious relationship with 9/11 is well documented and his controversial comments on the terror attacks began just minutes after the Twin Towers collapsed.

During a phone-in interview with WWOR-T, he talked about a 72-story building he said he owned in lower Manhattan, saying “and now it’s the tallest”.

17 years ago, today, Donald Trump bragged about how his building was now the tallest one in downtown Manhattan since the Twin Towers fell. pic.twitter.com/XOQxAVAoL5

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) September 11, 2018

Trump has also repeatedly claimed that he saw Muslims celebrating on the day of the attacks, a persistent conspiracy theory that has never been proven true.

I LIVE IN NEW JERSEY & @realDonaldTrump IS RIGHT: MUSLIMS DID CELEBRATE ON 9/11 HERE! WE SAW IT! https://t.co/1SksZU9qlj

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2015

Perhaps most brazen of all, Trump has even claimed he predicted the 9/11 attacks in his book ‘The America We Deserve’, published in January 2000.

I predicted the 9/11 attack on America in my book "The America We Deserve" and the collapse of Iraq in @TimeToGetTough.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2011

He did not.

The book contains one reference to Osama bin Laden and makes no mention of a planned terror attack.

Trump invented lying. #losttrumphistory

— charles hershtik (@the_unfluencer) July 29, 2019

More recently Trump has claimed he “lost hundreds of friends” from the attacks, but did not provide a single name to back up the assertion.

Did you know @realDonaldTrump scored the winning goal in the 1980 "Miracle on Ice"? #LostTrumpHistory pic.twitter.com/UlHv2UHJcp

— Ross M. Wallenstein (@RossWallenstein) July 29, 2019

And at an election rally on November 2015, he said he watched from his apartment as people leapt from the crumbling towers and that he witnessed the second plane coming in.

Trump’s apartment in Trump Tower is four miles away so this would be highly unlikely.

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