New Actor: Trump Commemorates 25th Anniversary at Pentagon
President Donald Trump marked the 25th anniversary at the Pentagon. He and first lady Melania Trump listened as the names of the 184 people killed there were read, a bell tolling between each. In his remarks, he recounted several victims’ stories and said, “We will never, ever forget. That’s why we fight today. We don’t have a choice.”
At daybreak in a downpour, Pete Hegseth and senior military leaders watched as a giant American flag was unfurled on the side of the building struck in 2001. Trump saluted service members “working right now to ensure” Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Hegseth said the U.S. military had “laid waste to the world’s most prolific state sponsor of terrorism.”
It was Trump’s second straight year observing the day at the Pentagon. Vice President JD Vance attended the New York observance, while other administration officials were in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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