Of the five living US presidents and former presidents, Donald Trump was the only one who did not attend the official ceremony honoring the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York. While Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were present at "ground zero" of the tragedy, Trump sent Vice President J.D. Vance in his place to attend a ceremony held at the Pentagon.
Trump is the only native New Yorker among the five political leaders, and the article highlights that, paradoxically, he was the one who was closest to the World Trade Center when the planes hijacked by Al-Qaeda struck the towers in 2001, and also the one who was farthest from the site during the commemorations of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the attack.
The analysis suggests that Trump's absence from the New York ceremony personifies a change in the American posture regarding the September 11 events, potentially representing a distancing from the memory and consequences of the attacks. The article indicates that Trump attended another ceremony at the Pentagon, which, unlike the one planned for ground zero, was not mentioned in full in the available excerpt.
