{"id":1030387,"date":"2026-08-29T05:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1030387\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:54:33","slug":"trump-snubs-9-11-25th-anniversary-ceremony-at-ground-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1030387\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump snubs 9\/11 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump will snub the Sept. 11 ceremony at Ground Zero<\/a> marking the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks reportedly because he wasn\u2019t going to be permitted to deliver a speech at the event.<\/p>\n

Instead of lower Manhattan, Trump is expected to attend a 9\/11 ceremony at the Pentagon<\/a> where he will make a speech, while Vice President JD Vance will replace him at the New York event.<\/p>\n

The surprise decision by Trump to skip the main national ceremony marking a quarter century<\/a> since the worst terror attack on American soil came in recent weeks after the president\u2019s request to speak was rebuffed by leaders of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the New York Times first reported.<\/p>\n

A congressional source reacted sarcastically to the reports of Trump\u2019s snub, telling the Daily News, \u201cIt takes real courage for the president of the United States to skip out on NYC for the 25th anniversary of 9\/11 because it\u2019s not easy to tell this amazing city and the victim\u2019s families that you really just don\u2019t care all that much \u2014 but President Trump will do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The memorial works scrupulously to maintain what it sees as the nonpartisan and apolitical nature of the annual commemorations and has barred political leaders from making speeches<\/a> for more than a decade.<\/p>\n

\"FlowersFlowers are placed on victims’ names at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Along with Vance, Mayor Mamdani is expected to attend the 9\/11 ceremony<\/a> at Ground Zero, along with ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Sept. 11 speech, now planned for the Pentagon, will come on the heels of his appearance at an unusual Republican midterm political convention<\/a> set for Dallas on Sept. 9 and 10, suggesting the address may have a partisan edge.<\/p>\n

\"ViceVice President JD Vance. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He plans to jet out the next day for a visit to Ireland<\/a>, where the Irish Open golf tournament is taking place at his golf resort on the Emerald Isle.<\/p>\n

Trump attended the Ground Zero memorial ceremonial in 2024<\/a> along with Vance and then-President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the home stretch of the presidential campaign that Trump wound up winning. None of the notables spoke but Trump visited a fire station later and met with FDNY firefighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump will snub the Sept. 11 ceremony at Ground Zero marking the 25th anniversary of the terror…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1030388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,119306,5249,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,118252,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1030387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-ground-zero","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sept-11","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117177255266261222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}