Trump to honor 9/11 at Pentagon after NYC memorial forbids speech: Report
President Donald Trump will attend the Pentagon’s memorial service for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks rather of the customary New York city Ground Zero event, where speeches are generally not permitted. Trump is scheduled to speak at the Arlington, Virginia, memorial at the War Department, deviating from his initial plan to visit Manhattan, partly to participate in the 25th anniversary commemoration. Historically, U.S. presidents and politicians have either spoken at the Pentagon or in Pennsylvania during September 11 anniversaries. In 2025,Trump lead a wreath-laying and delivered remarks at the Pentagon. In 2024,he attended Ground Zero alongside othre officials. The annual memorial at Ground Zero typically forbids speeches from politicians to maintain a non-political tone. The 2026 marks 25 years as the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people across New York City,the Pentagon,and Pennsylvania. The article notes the White House’s response to related reports and mentions ongoing legal efforts by 9/11 attackers’ associates opposed to the death penalty.
President Donald Trump will be attending the Pentagon’s memorial of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks instead of New York City’s memorial at Ground Zero, according to a new report.
Trump will speak at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony at the War Department headquarters Arlington, Virginia, pivoting from his initial plan to head to Manhattan partially because he wanted to give a speech for the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, according to a report from The New York Times.
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The National September 11 Memorial and Museum, which hosts the annual memorial of the attack at Ground Zero, has forbade speeches from politicians during its yearly a-political ceremony. Politicians, including Trump, have long attended the New York City event without giving remarks to honor the nearly 3,000 people who died in lower Manhattan during the terrorist attacks.
U.S. presidents and politicians who have given speeches on the Sept. 11 anniversary in years past have either done so at the Pentagon, from the White House, or in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the fourth plane crashed in 2001.
In 2025, President Trump spent the anniversary of the terrorist attack at the Pentagon ceremony, in which he both led a wreath-laying ceremony and delivered remarks reflecting on those who died and acted heroically during attack.
In 2024, then-Presidential candidate Trump attended the memorial ceremony at Ground Zero in Manhattan alongside then-Senator JD Vance, while former Vice President Kamala Harris attended the ceremony alongside then-President Joe Biden.
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Sept. 11, 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of the 2001 al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the U.S. that killed 2,977 people in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Two planes hit each of the World Trade Center buildings in lower Manhattan, while one plane hit the Pentagon. The plane that crashed in Shanksville was diverted from the terrorists’ suspected target of Washington, D.C., as patrons aboard the flight fought back against the al-Qaeda terrorists on the plane.
The Washington Examiner has reached out to the White House for comment on The New York Times report.
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