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All the insane things Trump has said about 9/11

8 claims checked · Published September 2026 · Checked September 2026

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  1. Claim 1
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 0:23
    “that his property was now the tallest building in downtown Manhattan”

    Trump said on September 11, 2001, that 40 Wall Street was then the tallest building in downtown Manhattan.

    Contemporary reporting and later fact-checks document that Trump made this statement during a live television interview on the afternoon of September 11, 2001.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second False. Recorded as Unverifiable.

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  2. Claim 2
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 0:39
    “Another building was still taller than his.”

    40 Wall Street was not the tallest building still standing in Lower Manhattan after the World Trade Center towers fell.

    The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street was shorter than 70 Pine Street, which remained taller in Lower Manhattan after the attacks.

    Sources

  3. Claim 3
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 0:50
    “We have over 100 and we have about 125 coming”

    Trump said he had more than 100 men at the World Trade Center site and about 125 more coming.

    The statement is accurately attributed to Trump in a contemporary interview. The separate question of whether those workers were actually there is addressed by other claims in the transcript.

    Sources

  4. Claim 4
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 0:59
    “A former New York Fire Department chief at the time even said he had no knowledge of Trump being at the site or is sending 100 or so workers to help at all.”

    Former FDNY battalion chief Richard Alles said he had no knowledge of Trump being at Ground Zero or bringing 100 or more workers there.

    Alles told PolitiFact that he had no knowledge of Trump being at Ground Zero or bringing 100 or more workers. This does not prove the workers were definitively absent, but it accurately reports Alles’s statement.

    Sources

  5. Claim 5
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 1:05
    “Trump has also said he lost hundreds of friends from the attack.”

    Trump said he lost hundreds of friends in the World Trade Center attack.

    Trump publicly made the statement that he had lost “hundreds of friends” in the attack.

    Sources

  6. Claim 6
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 1:13
    “His team did not name even one of those friends to the Daily Beast.”

    Trump’s campaign did not name any of the friends he claimed to have lost when asked by The Daily Beast.

    The Daily Beast reported that, two days after Trump made the claim, his campaign ignored a request to identify even one friend.

    Sources

  7. Claim 7
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 1:17
    “Trump also said he saw people jumping out of the World Trade Center”

    Trump said he personally saw people jumping from the World Trade Center.

    Trump made this claim in later speeches, including the quoted statement that he personally witnessed people jumping.

    Sources

  8. Claim 8
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 1:27
    “His building was four miles away.”

    Trump Tower was about four miles north of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

    Sources place Trump in Trump Tower, approximately four miles from the Twin Towers, when he described watching the attacks.

    Sources