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[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago

Reminder that Trump was happy about those attacks that day because they made his property value go up

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

He said that on the day.

A few hours after the towers collapsed, he decided to call into a radio station and brag. No one asked him, he just did it. And he said:

“Well, it was an amazing phone call,” Mr Trump told WWOR. “I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. And it was actually – before the World Trade Center – was the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest, and now it’s the tallest.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/9-11-trump-tallest-building-manhattan-b2164420.html

And, like most things Trump says, it wasn't even true. It was never the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan.

So, on 9/11, while first responders were digging through the rubble and pulling out corpses, Trump called up the biggest radio station in New York to lie about how tall his building was.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Completely normal behaviour. For a narcissist sociopath.

[-] DaBPunkt@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

It was never the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan.

Are you sure about that? It was once the tallest building in the world, then the second tallest (after the Chrysler Building), and (Wikipedia says so) after the 70 Pine Street was build the 2nd tallest in “Lower Manhattan”.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

As the article I linked to said-

As multiple fact checks later pointed out, this was not true. The Wall Street building had not been the tallest building in lower Manhattan in the 1970s, when the Twin Towers were constructed, nor was it the tallest in the area after 2001.

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