Former President Donald Trump addressed the 9/11 attacks Monday, issuing a passionate statement commemorating the 22nd anniversary of the fateful day that led to a tragic loss of American lives.
Read a transcript of the president’s message below:
No one who lived through the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks can ever forget the agony and the anguish of that terrible day.
The images of dark plumes of smoke billowing over lower Manhattan, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, such a beautiful field, are seared into our minds forever. We will never forget.
Today on this solemn anniversary of those monstrous attacks, we remember the 2,977 precious souls who were savagely taken from us on that morning 22 years ago leaving a void that can never be filled.
We will say a prayer for each of the beautiful families they left behind whose pain is beyond comprehension.
We honor the firefighters the great New York PD, what great people they are, and the Port Authority officers, the Virginia, DC and Pentagon police and the military servicemembers and other first responders actually all over the country. They acted with supreme heroism and they went to the site of the most heinous crime. They would leave other states far away and go to the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon, they’d go to Pennsylvania – who in many cases gave their lives in the line of duty.
God bless the memory of all of those who perished in the 9/11 attacks. We will never ever forget. We will never forget you. We love you. God bless their families and God bless America. Thank you.
Trump on the day of the attacks famously called in to a live broadcast and noted he believed bombs rigged to explode may have also been detonated.