Me, Me, Me!

All the presidents will be there except for one. The current leader.

Former Presidents Unite to Shame Trump Over 9/11 Diva Fit

Donald Trump is snubbing a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the historic terror attacks.

The Daily Beast

Ewan Palmer

Sep. 2 2026

All four living former U.S. presidents have confirmed their attendance at a ceremony in New York next week to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which Donald Trump has decided to skip for a typically petty reason.

Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, who was president at the time of the 9/11 attacks, will all attend the event at the World Trade Center site marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks, The New York Times reported.

Trump was initially also set to appear at the event at Ground Zero. However, the Times previously reported that the 80-year-old president bailed after being told he would not be allowed to deliver one of his rambling speeches at what is supposed to be a somber occasion to remember the nearly 3,000 people who were killed that day.

Instead, Trump will mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks at the Pentagon, which was also targeted by a plane hijacked by al Qaeda terrorists.

Okay, place your bets... how long will he talk at the Pentagon... and how many times will he say "Me?"

We can't have a drinking game because everyone will get smashed.

Trump has furiously rejected the suggestion that he bailed on the 9/11 event in New York City after being told that he could not give a speech. In a vile Truth Social post, Trump attacked New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who was one of four bylines on the original report about his upcoming absence, and claimed that she had “made up a story.”

The New York Daily News writes in an editorial

Shame on Donald Trump for skipping the Ground Zero ceremony in NYC marking 25 years since the terror attacks of 9/11/2001.

The so-called champion of law enforcement has decided to spit on the graves of the firefighters and cops who charged toward the burning buildings in Lower Manhattan to save those they could, along with the memories of thousands more. Add that insult to the disrespect he has callously shown the brave Capitol police officers in Washington who tried to hold back an angry mob he’d whipped up on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump is reportedly missing so important a day because, like other politicians before him, he wasn’t going to be given an opportunity to speak. The annual event is nonpartisan, so Trump was treated the same as other political leaders before him, including last year, when he joined in silence with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and JD Vance.

But that apparently wasn’t good enough for Trump. If it’s not about him, he really isn’t interested.

The 3,000 who died. The thousands more who perished from 9/11 illness. The moms, dads, wives, husbands, daughters and sons whose lives were upended. The people who lived to tell the story. The New Yorkers who rebuilt the city.

None of them matter, not to a president who has taken self-interest to new heights.

He is pissing off millions more people and I don't mean just NYC residents but millions more when they don't see him there and then learned he gave a rambling speech at the Pentagon.

The editorial ends with:

Shame on Trump for skipping the 9/11 ceremony in his hometown. It’s time for those who haven’t yet to pay closer attention to his self-serving and dangerous game.