{"id":89,"date":"2026-09-04T04:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/?p=89"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:19:27","slug":"white-house-responds-to-claim-trump-refuses-to-attend-9-11-memorial-after-being-denied-permission-to-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"White House responds to claim Trump refuses to attend 9\/11 memorial after being denied permission to speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy began with reports that event organizers at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum reminded the White House of long-standing rules: no political speeches at the New York ceremony, a policy in place since 2012 to keep the day focused on victims, families, and first responders. After that, plans for Trump to attend the World Trade Center observance reportedly evaporated, and attention shifted to the Pentagon, where he is expected to deliver remarks instead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>The White House framed his choice as deeply personal, emphasizing Trump\u2019s identity as a \u201cproud New Yorker\u201d who watched the attacks unfold and wants to honor the dead, comfort grieving families, and salute those who ran toward danger. Trump himself, however, took a scorched-earth approach online, blasting the New York Times reporter, denying he\u2019d ever demanded to speak, and insisting the New York ceremony is, and should remain, a \u201csolemn ceremony\u201d where \u201cno one ever speaks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy began with reports that event organizers at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum reminded the White House of long-standing rules: no political speeches at&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusanews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}