'Insane Liar': Critics Rip Trump After He Revives His Most Dubious 9/11 Claim

The president insisted he helped at ground zero, but there’s no evidence to back that up.

Donald Trump claimed he and his workers helped at ground zero the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks ― a claim he’s made before, despite no evidence that he or his employees were doing so.

“I went down. I was building a building in New York and I had a lot of construction workers,” Trump told Fox News host Trey Gowdy. “And I went down there very shortly thereafter ― the following day, you couldn’t go down the same day, but like the following day, very very quickly afterwards ― and we worked long and hard.

“But it was just so terrible and so hopeless, it was so hopeless, such a terrible thing.”

Trump claims that after 9/11, "I went down, I was building a building in New York, and I went down there very shortly thereafter -- the following day, you couldn't go down the same day -- and we worked long and hard" pic.twitter.com/kt7IreXkVl— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 7, 2026

Trump claims that after 9/11, "I went down, I was building a building in New York, and I went down there very shortly thereafter -- the following day, you couldn't go down the same day -- and we worked long and hard" pic.twitter.com/kt7IreXkVl

Trump has made variations on this claim many times over the years, but there’s no evidence he worked at ground zero or provided hundreds of his own workers to the efforts there.

“Everyone who helped clear the rubble — and I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit,” he claimed in 2016.

In 2019, while speaking to first responders, he also recalled working at the scene.

“I was down there also,........

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