# Trump says firefighters carried him to safety near ground zero ‘right after’ 9/11

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- NBC News, 2026-09-09 03:31 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/firefighters-ground-zero-right-after-september-11-attacks-rcna596723

> Trump said he was “down there right after this happened” and that firefighters near ground zero carried him to safety. He later wrote on Truth Social that he was not at the World Trade Center on the day the towers collapsed, but arrived shortly afterward.

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