Trump: This Battered Piece of Steel Here on the Ellipse, Is a Reminder That America Is Blessed with a Strength No Fire Can Consume

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TRUMP: “September 11th was one of those moments in time where you everybody knows exactly where they were. I know exactly where I was. I was watching and looking and it was a beautiful, beautiful morning. And I looked out and then all of a sudden I saw an alert on television. I looked out my window and I saw things that I never want to see again. We're never going to see them again. But in just over 100 minutes, 175,000 tons of steel and concrete were reduced to ruin and 3,000 lives were extinguished, immediately extinguished. The world we knew and the nation that we loved have had changed. I said it to myself and I looked and I said, well, the world has changed forever. So many things have changed because of that day. Yet this battered piece of steel here today on the ellipse is a reminder that America is blessed with a strength. No fire can consume, no evil can conquer, and no terror can destroy.”