Trump says firefighters carried him away from near Ground Zero ‘right after’ 9/11

The useful part

11 terror attacks, the war in Iran and in ongoing beautification efforts in Washington, D.C. At an event ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, President Donald Trump told a story Tuesday in which he said two firefighters picked him up off the ground near the U.S. Steel Building close to ground zero "right after" the terrorist attacks and whisked him away because they thought the building was going to collapse on them.

How it works

• Seeing the second plane hit In an interview with Fox News host Trey Gowdy, which aired in part Sunday, Trump said he watched as the second plane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
• "I'm watching, and I saw the second plane hit, and you saw that come, and you're watching it, and it's — because I watched the air patterns for years, and you, you know, you know where the planes are.
• 12, telling Gowdy he "worked long and hard" with a team of construction workers to help at the scene.
• "I was building a building in New York, and I had a lot of construction workers.
• The following day — you couldn't go down the same day, but, like, the following day, very, very quickly afterwards.

What to take from it

New York City Sep 8 Troves of new 9/11 docs suggest NYC officials knew of air quality health risks 9/11 Sep 8 Looking back at 9/11: "I'll never forget two firemen, we thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big, strong guys. They grabbed me under the arm, said, 'Got to get out of here,'" Trump said, without specifying exactly when the incident occurred.

Example or evidence

• ...I saw the second plane hit the building, and I said, 'Wow that's unbelievable,'" he said.
• "I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.
• I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down — as those buildings came down — and that tells you something.

Details worth keeping

They lifted me up, and they started running with me. I said, 'Fellas, I can run myself.' But they were amazing. He has spoken many times about what he saw on Sept.

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