President Trump will commemorate the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the Pentagon, the White House said on Tuesday. He will attend a New York Yankees game in the Bronx that evening.
Vice President Vance will travel to Ground Zero in New York City to mark the day, his office said Tuesday. Second lady Usha Vance will join him.
Ahead of the 2024 election last year, Trump and Vance visited Ground Zero. Former President Biden and former Vice President Harris also were at the site.
In August 2024, Vance criticized the Biden administration for reaching a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi. The three were accused of helping plan the attacks.
In July, a panel of federal appeals court judges threw out the plea agreement in a 2-1 decision. It would have allowed 9/11 mastermind Mohammed and other co-defendants to plead guilty in exchange for escaping the federal death penalty. The deal, negotiated over two years, would have given them life without parole.
According to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, 2,977 people died in the attacks, including 2,753 in New York, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 on Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania.
