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BREAKING: SHAME! Trump refuses to attend the ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11 because the event organizers won't let him give a MAGA speech.
This man makes everything about himself...
According to people with "knowledge of the events" who spoke to The New York Times, Trump was originally planning on attending the event. He even had his team perform advance visits to Manhattan’s National September 11 Memorial & Museum, a customary security check when the President travels anywhere.
His minions also informed the museum that he would like to give a speech at the event. But under the organization's official rules, politicians are forbidden from delivering speeches at anniversary events. This restriction prevents things from descending into political partisanship and ensures that attendees can focus on "honoring the victims and their families in a way free of politics.”
Since, Trump is pathologically incapable of empathy and is uninterested in anything that doesn't revolve around him and his turgid ego, he has now cancelled his plans to attend.
The self-centeredness itself is unsurprising, because this is not a man who has any genuine care for the victims of 9/11 or their families. On the day that the towers came down, he publicly boasted that their destruction meant he now owned the tallest building in Lower Manhattan. He also falsely claimed to have helped clear the rubble.
Since he was blocked from giving a speech at the museum, Trump will now "commemorate" the anniversary at the Pentagon, where he'll be able to rant and rave into a microphone for as long as he likes. The smart money predicts an Islamophobic tirade and we wouldn't be surprised if he tries to conflate Al Qaeda and Iran, in order to draw an imaginary connection between the 9/11 attacks and his ongoing illegal war.
Vice President J.D. Vance will be attending the memorial event at the museum in Trump's stead.
The organization's statement about this brewing scandal was reserved and nonpartisan as expected.
“For more than a decade, the ceremony at Ground Zero has featured only family members solemnly reading the names of their loved ones. Elected officials of both parties have borne witness to this solemn occasion over the years, and we have been honored that every living President, including President Trump, has attended. Of course, President Trump is always welcome,” the museum stated.
The most enraging thing about Trump's refusal to attend this solemn and sacred event is the silence from MAGA world. The very same people who are furious that Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim, will be attending the event have nothing to say about their petulant cult leader disrespecting the entire ceremony.
And it should go without saying, but the the museum made the right decision by refusing to let Trump speak. The last thing that the families of 9/11 victims need to hear is a longwinded, rambling diatribe from a sundowning pedophile.
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I completely agree with Jamie Raskin once Trump is evicted from the White House it needs to be treated as if it had bed bugs and then everything he did needs to be reversed or removed that he has claimed as his own.