Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims.
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New York's political class demands the mayor skip a 9/11 ceremony; he confirms he's going anyway.
“You notice how the ask never changes, just the volume — officers in August, families in September, Giuliani by Friday, all of them circling the same guy about the same building. Biden gets a confirmed seat and a wire brief; Mamdani gets a loyalty test with a new witness every few days. That's not about 9/11, that's about who gets to grieve without a permission slip, and it should scare you regardless of who's mayor next time.”
“Look, nobody's saying the mayor can't grieve, okay? Grief is universal. What we're saying — and this is not a talking point, this is just concern, deep concern from the families — is that maybe on this one day, out of all the days, someone else could stand where he's standing. That's not exclusion. Did I say exclusion? I meant... tradition. It's tradition.”
The receipts
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani lamented current Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s presence at the Sept. 11 commemoration marking the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, saying the socialist mayor’s attendance would “offend him.” Giuliani, who served as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, became the public face of the city’s…
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who later worked as President Trump’s personal lawyer, publicly criticized current Mayor Zohran Mamdani for planning to attend a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero on Friday. “Frankly, whatever he’d like to say, he doesn’t agree that September 11th was an Islamic terrorist attack…
· Retired Port Authority officers tell Mamdani, Hochul to stay away from Ground Zero on 9/11 from the morgue, 30 Aug 2026
· 9/11 families plan to ignore ‘spiteful’ Mamdani if he shows up at 25th memorial ceremony from the morgue, 5 Sep 2026
· Former Gov. George Pataki releasing new Ground Zero documentary: ‘9/11 wasn’t some sort of an accident. It was a terrorist attack ‘ from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
· Biden to attend Ground Zero 9/11 memorial ceremony for 25th anniversary from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
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