With each passing year it appears that President Donald Trump’s account of where he was and what he was doing during the 9/11 terror attacks evolves.
Yet it’s fair to say that he’s never leaned into the idea that he was personally in danger on the day commercial airliners were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center.
Until now.
On Tuesday, September 8, Trump spoke at a ceremony on the White House Ellipse to honor emergency responders. The 80-year-old – notorious, it must be said, for embellishing facts and twisting narratives – shared a never-before-heard account of being physically carried to safety from a building close to Ground Zero.
“We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big strong guys, I’m not the smallest guy in the world, they grabbed me under the arm, said, ‘Got to get out of here,’ and they literally lifted me up,” Trump told the audience.
“This is not easy to do. I’m big. They lifted me up and they started running with me. I said, ‘Fellas, I can run myself,’ but they were amazing. But they thought it was coming down. It didn’t come down.”