President Trump isn't happy that his half-truths about where he was during the September 11 attacks are being called out.
On Truth Social Tuesday night, Trump posted an angry rant attacking New York magazine for questioning his story of where he was on 9/11.
"The Failing New York Magazine wrote a story that I wasn't down at the World Trade Center after the Tragedy of September 11th, because nobody saw me there. Well, I don't think I would be the first thing on anyone's mind but, I was there, obviously not on the same day as the collapse, but shortly thereafter, with a large group of Construction Workers," Trump posted. "The Fake News doesn't want to listen, even when they know their story is false. That's why their approval ratings are at an All Time LOW, but mine are VERY HIGH!"
In a speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Trump claimed that he was working on a "big building" during the attacks, and that he took a construction crew to Ground Zero "right after this happened." Then, Trump claimed, while he was at the U.S. Steel Building, it began to creak and two firefighters were forced to pull him away from the area.
"I'll never forget. Two firemen—we thought it was coming down on top of us and two firemen, big strong guys—and I'm not the smallest guy in the world—they grabbed me under the arms and said, 'Gotta get out of here.' And they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I'm big. They lifted me up and started running with me. I said, 'Fellas, I can run myself.' But they were amazing," Trump said.
CNN's Daniel Dale debunked Trump's narrative, posting on X that Trump's story Tuesday wasn't the same story that he's told in previous years.
"While campaigning in 2016, he told a version of today's story about being whisked away from One Liberty Plaza by big firemen, but he said in 2016 that the alleged incident happened 'a couple of days' after 9/11 and claimed the creaky building was 'not so far from us,' instead of leaving open the impression he might've been a) inside it b) on 9/11 itself," Dale posted.
That was one of the many refutations of Trump's story in the New York article, which cited other tall tales Trump has told about the 9/11 attacks. But to Trump, with his ongoing cognitive decline and massive ego, "Everything I said was exactly accurate."