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President Donald Trump is paying his respects to the victims of the 9/11 attacks with stops in New York City and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday.
Trump’s schedule includes stops at the 9/11 Memorial, a New York City fire station and the Flight 93 memorial, according to his campaign.
“I’m going down to the World Trade Center site, much of it. JD is going with me,” Trump told Fox News during a call-in interview Tuesday morning.
“We had a great talk about it yesterday. It was very sad, a horrible day. There’s never been anything like it. Just a horrible day. Then going to Pennsylvania, of course,” he added.
Trump’s campaign also took to social media to remind Americans to “never forget” the lives of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
Nearly 3,000 people died from the attacks by terrorists who hijacked four commercial airplanes in coordinated attacks. The sites included the two towers at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in America’s most deadly terrorist attack.
The deaths included over 400 first responders. Among them were 23 New York City police officers, 37 Port Authority workers and 343 New York City firefighters.
The attacks were led by al Qaeda under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. The American response included military operations in Afghanistan with an ongoing presence until 2021.
Vice President Kamala Harris is also scheduled to attend 9/11 memorial events in New York and Pennsylvania today.
Harris and Trump briefly shook hands one night after their debate during the New York event on Wednesday, which also featured President Joe Biden, New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“On this day 23 years ago, terrorists believed they could break our will and bring us to our knees. They were wrong. They will always be wrong,” Biden said in a statement. “In the darkest of hours, we found light. And in the face of fear, we came together — to defend our country, and to help one another.”
“Today, our longest war is finally over. But our commitment to preventing another attack on our people never will be,” he said.
