With Lower Manhattan and the site of the September 11 attacks in the background, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday called on people to honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 victims—as well as those who have died of illnesses stemming from toxic air at the site of the attacks—by caring "for one another" as thousands of people…
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Giuliani tells Mamdani to skip the 9/11 ceremony, then shakes his hand at it.
“The "stay away, it offends me" routine was never about respect, it was about who gets to own that morning on camera and who has to sue for the files instead. Rudy shows up, shakes the man's hand, and the cameras move on before the ink's dry on four days of demanding he not come. The actual bill from that day — $34 million for people still sick off the air the city lied about — took a week longer to land and got folded into a budget nobody read out loud.”
“Look, nobody's saying muzzle the guy, we're saying maybe don't stand at Ground Zero talking about — okay, "executor of a pan-Islamist movement" might've been strong, forget I said that part. The point is optics, and shaking his hand isn't backing down, it's magnanimous, we're the magnanimous ones here. Did I say "no question" earlier like it was a policy position? It was more of a — it was a feeling. A strong feeling.”
The receipts
Friday marks 25 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, which claimed the lives of 2,977 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani shook hands at Ground Zero ahead of the annual remembrance ceremony.
Rudy Giuliani's spokesperson accuses Mayor Zohran Mamdani of scoring political points after 170,000 pages of 9/11 toxic air records were released.
· 9/11 victim families deliver petition to Mamdani at City Hall asking him to stay away from memorial ceremonies: ‘Disrespectful’ from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
· Families of 9/11 victims' message to Mamdani: 'Please do not come' to memorial ceremony from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
· Rudy Giuliani urges Mamdani to not attend 9/11 anniversary from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· Rudy Giuliani calls for Mamdani to skip 9/11 memorial ceremonies: ‘It offends me’ from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· ‘Mamdani views himself as an executor of a pan-Islamist movement’: Tiana Lowe Doescher from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
· Mamdani: NYC leaders 'lied' about post-9/11 air quality from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
· Mamdani to release documents on 9/11 health impacts before 25th anniversary from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
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