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President Donald Trump will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the Pentagon on Friday, honoring the victims and first responders who lost their lives that day.
“As a proud New Yorker, President Trump has spoken about his own experiences watching the horrific events of September 11, 2001,” White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital.
“On the 25th anniversary of this tragic day, the President will remember those who were killed at the hands of evil terrorists, honor their loved ones, and pay tribute to the brave first responders who put their lives on the line to rescue their fellow Americans,” Kelly added.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend a ceremony to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, at the Pentagon in Washington. Trump revealed at the ceremony that Charlie Kirk will be receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Trump will attend a 9/11 remembrance ceremony at the Pentagon, while Vice President JD Vance will commemorate the attacks at the World Trade Center site in New York. Other administration officials will gather in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, ensuring the White House has a presence at all three sites tied to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Vance will join former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in New York for a remembrance ceremony.
Last year, Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended a 9/11 commemoration at the Pentagon and issued a Patriot Day proclamation calling for flags to be flown at half-staff.
He later attended a Yankees-Tigers game featuring tributes to the victims in the Bronx, New York City.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet a U.S. Pentagon police officer as they attend a September 11th observance event in the courtyard of the Pentagon September 11, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
During his first term, Trump attended the Pentagon for a memorial in 2017 and 2019, then spent 9/11 at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania in 2018 and 2020.
Trump was a real-estate developer in New York City at the time of the attacks and watched the tragedy unfold in real time.
“I have a window that looks directly at the World Trade Center, and I saw this huge explosion. I was with a group of people and I really couldn’t even believe it,” Trump said in a phone interview with WWOR-TV channel 9 on the tragic day.
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Donald Trump walks along the Wall of Names of the victims after a wreath-laying following a ceremony commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the crash of Flight 93 during the September 11th terrorist attacks at the Flight 93 National Memorial on Sept. 11, 2024, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
WHERE TUNNEL TO TOWERS’ STEEL ACROSS AMERICA TOUR WILL STOP AHEAD OF 9/11
On Tuesday, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation brought its “Steel Across America” tour to Trump’s doorstep at the White House, where the 21-foot, 16,900-pound steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center’s South Tower was on display.
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The steel beam has served as a traveling memorial to the victims and first responders of 9/11, offering pop-up events across 21 states leading up to the anniversary of the tragic day.
