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In late August 2026, people shared a rumor alleging U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York said he wouldn’t be allowed to speak at the 25th-anniversary remembrance, adding that his administration was “looking into shutting them down permanently.”<\/p>\n
For example, on Aug. 30, an X user shared<\/a> (archived<\/a>) an image showing the alleged Truth Social post:<\/p>\n (@ShawS983 via X)<\/p>\n The purported Trump post read as follows:<\/p>\n “The National September 11 Memorial and Museum commission decided I’m not allowed to speak at the remembrance. Imagine that? A native new Yorker. The greatest president in history. We’re looking into shutting them down permanently, remove the memorial and building a statue of me as tall as the World Trade Center. Not to brag or anything, but I single handedly saved 500 thousand people in those burning buildings. I ran 110 floors at least 50 times within 30 minutes pulling people out of tight spaces. I almost died.” DJT<\/p>\n According to a reverse image search<\/a> of the supposed Trump post screenshot, users primarily<\/a> shared<\/a> the image<\/a> on Facebook<\/a>. It also appeared<\/a> on the 9GAG meme website.<\/p>\n Snopes readers\u00a0emailed us<\/a> to investigate the alleged screenshot’s legitimacy, asking, for example, “I believe the fact that he won’t attend is true, but is this X post for real?”<\/p>\n To investigate the rumor, we first checked Trump’s Truth Social page<\/a> and found no such post. We then searched on DuckDuckGo<\/a>, Google<\/a> and Yahoo<\/a> for reports about the supposed post possibly being shared then deleted. If\u00a0Trump had falsely posted he saved 500,000 people and mentioned plans of building a massive statue after removing the memorial and museum, journalists with reputable news outlets, such as The Associated Press or The New York Times, would have widely reported on it, and our search inquiries would have uncovered such evidence. We found no such articles.<\/p>\n While some Facebook commenters questioned whether the post was real, many others recognized the image as fabricated humor, specifically calling it<\/a> “satire.”<\/p>\n In sum, the purported Trump Truth Social post screenshot’s fake nature and extremely outlandish, false claims, suggested the image originated as satire. We will update this article if we locate the origin of the image.<\/p>\n Trump reportedly not going to NY ceremony<\/p>\n The story spread in the days before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which killed<\/a> nearly 3,000 people. Ahead of that anniversary, Trump and the White House disputed a New York Times report<\/a> alleging he decided against attending the New York remembrance because he couldn’t speak at the event. The reporting cited three anonymous sources “with knowledge of the events.” \u00a0We did not locate evidence that might conclusively confirm or debunk that claim.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the 9\/11 Memorial & Museum previously told Snopes that the organization has historically “intentionally worked to keep the commemoration free of politics because remembering those we lost on 9\/11 should never be a partisan issue,” and that politicians are not to deliver remarks and must “remain in a designated area.”<\/p>\n In an authentic post on Aug. 28, Trump posted<\/a> (archived<\/a>) an attack on Times journalist Maggie Haberman, one of several reporters who worked on the Times’ story, calling her “Maggot Hagerman” and writing, “I would love not to speak, because I’m speaking all the time, and this is a day to remember the victims, and their beautiful family members.”<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shaw_trump_911_x.jpg\")
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