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On 9/11 Trump boasted: My building is now the tallest [1]
['Mark Frauenfelder']
Date: 2023-09-11
On the anniversary of 9/11, let's revisit this 22-year-old clip of Trump boasting that the mass murder and destruction of the World Trade Center on that day meant he now had the tallest building in New York.
"I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. And it was actually – before the World Trade Center – was the tallest," he told WWOR/UPN 9 News in Manhattan. "And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest, and now it's the tallest."
And of course, Trump lied. From a 2018 Washington Post article:
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