In Pentagon speech, Trump repeats lie that "I went down to ground zero to try to help"

[Miles Archer]

“It was a day filled with shock, horror, sorrow, and righteous fury. I vividly remembered when I first heard the news. I was sitting at home watching a major business television show early that morning. Jack Welch, the legendary head of General Electric, was about to be interviewed when all of a sudden they cut away,” the president said.

“At first there were different reports, it was a boiler fire. But I knew that boilers aren’t at the top of a building. It was a kitchen explosion… Nobody really knew what happened. There was great confusion,” Trump continued.

“I was looking out of a window from a building in midtown Manhattan directly at the World Trade Center when I saw a second plane at a tremendous speed go into the second tower. It was then that I realized the world was going to change.

“I was no longer going to be, and it could never ever be, that innocent place that I thought it was. Soon after, I went down to ground zero with men who work for me to try to help in any little way that we could,” Trump said.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/outrage-erupts-as-lying-buffoon-trump-turns-pentagon-9-11-commemoration-into-an-infomercial-about-himself/

[Turbineguy]

1. Lie every day.

[Kali]

2. ...

[Newest Reality]

3. I don't buy his story, either.

However, if he did go down there, just how would talking about himself be of any help at all? If that "no longer going to be" thought is not a dramatic fabrication, I don't know what is. Who would be thinking that in the middle of a HUGE crises? Your concern about the changes it would bring would be long after the shock of it.

"Well, I know...everything there is to know about ground zeros...and oh, they are on the ground...they are big zeros...very big...the biggest...and I know more about them..."

[Miles Archer]

17. I've read accounts from first responders, which basically added up to...

..."If he was down there, we never saw him."

[dhol82]

4. He likes arranging his own history.

[CanonRay]

5. That was the first time he threw out paper towels

[C_U_L8R]

6. Also dubious that he saw the second plane hit from Trump Tower

I bet his windows don't even face South.

Besides the second plane approached from the South and not many saw it until it exploded because the WTC buildings blocked that view. I was there. And Trump wasn't. During or After.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Glad you posted this. I had never heard this story before...that HE and his staff

went down there to help???

It was the only time I have ever seen my husband cry - when he saw firemen go back into the building to save people - knowing full well that they may die. To put yourself among this group is a travesty.

[gratuitous]

8. And yet Democratic candidates are called out

A Democrat barbers an account or embroiders their own role in an event, and the media do not, will not, can not let it go. They track it down to a fare-thee-well, and many ominous reports are filed about how so-and-so is in big trouble, their credibility is shot, and they might as well withdraw from public life immediately and go live in a monastery or a convent somewhere.

Trump sticks with his lying-ass self-aggrandizing stories, the media might mention in passing that it's not true (or, more likely, say that there's no evidence at the present time that Trump's story is true, as if evidence might suddenly materialize that proves his lie is actually true), but there's never any follow up about what a liar Trump is, how he keeps repeating his lies even when he knows they're lies and everyone knows he's lying, and there is for sure never any tut-tutting about how Trump needs to step down since he can't tell the truth.

[Miles Archer]

18. I have a photographic memory, and sometimes I'll blur the lines

There will one detail that I remember incorrectly, one of the people involved or something like that.

I had a rock group in the eighth grade...me and two other guys. I posted an anecdote about it on Facebook. I named one of the original members, and in the comments, the guy who replaced him replied "That was me." And it was, because...eighth grade.

Big difference between that and flat-out manufacturing entire scenarios that never happened, unless you're an author of fiction. Which Trump is.

[world wide wally]

9. So, he"ll have us believe that as people were running away from the explosions, he and

his band of merry men were running toward the flames and destruction?

Right, Donnie dumbfuck.

[dalton99a]

10. The president is fearless

[3catwoman3]

16. Like hell he would have.

He’s scared of eagles.

[Doreen]

11. Question,

If he only heard about the 1st plane on T.V but was talking about actually seeing the 2nd plane hit doesn't it seem odd that if he was that close that he would not have heard it before the news about it came on?

I am pretty sure that the hitting planes made a lot of very loud noise.

[jpljr77]

12. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I...no one cares about your 9/11 story, jackass. Talk about those who

actually did something.

Jesus, this guy is horrible at this job.

[Thomas Hurt]

13. A little stolen valor in front of our military from a malignant narcissist.

He was hiding in his building or got the eff out of the city as soon as he could.

[Runningdawg]

14. IIRC he also said HIS workers rescued 5 NYC firemen

We know that's BS - because he would have used them in his campaign.

[BSdetect]

15. He's a rabid liar. Malignant narcissist.

[struggle4progress]

19. "Your Trumpie Bear action figure comes complete with a burning building

and mass shooter. You'll sigh with delight and make googley eyes as your Trumpie Bear action figure runs bravely into the burning building unarmed and slays the mass shooter with the jawbone of an ass"

[keithbvadu2]

20. "I went down to ground zero with men who work for me"

"I went down to ground zero with men who work for me"

Let's hear from them or their families.