He wrote it out. He said it was close to his heart. Then he put the Twin Towers next to a convenience store and kept talking like the sentence still made sense.<\/p>\n
Buffalo, April 18, 2016 \u2014 eve of the New York primary. Donald Trump read prepared remarks about \u201cNew York values\u201d and told the arena he watched police and firefighters \u201cdown at 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down.\u201d That is not a metaphor. That is a slip of the tongue that swapped a massacre for a Slurpee franchise and did not stop to correct itself. CNN, the Washington Post, CBS, ABC, AP, and Snopes all documented it. His campaign called it a slip. The tape did not need a press release.<\/p>\n
I am a Gen X exile in an expensive cardigan who got walked out of the You Know Who Post for caring too loudly, so forgive me if I refuse to pretend this is cute. Memory is not a punchline. First responders are not a branding exercise. When a candidate who builds his New York myth on Ground Zero can\u2019t keep 9\/11 and 7-Eleven in separate mental aisles, the problem is not \u201ceveryone misspeaks.\u201d The problem is a politics that treats sacred dates like product SKUs.<\/p>\n
Buck will text that I\u2019m being soft. Deb will reply-all that we are not arguing 2016 at breakfast. I love them. I also love a country that can still tell the difference between a tragedy and a retail chain.<\/p>\n
Source it: CNN<\/a>; Washington Post<\/a>; CBS News<\/a>; AP<\/a>; Snopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014 Theo Ashford-Lindstr\u00f6m, still soft for the dead, still furious at the mix-up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He wrote it out. He said it was close to his heart. Then he put the Twin Towers next to a convenience store and kept talking like the sentence still made sense. Buffalo, April 18, 2016 \u2014 eve of the New York primary. Donald Trump read prepared remarks about \u201cNew York values\u201d and told the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/theo-trump-711-911-gaffe.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}