9/11 and Donald Trump

Maybe a strange forum section to post this in, but it kind of fits.

What effect has the events of 9/11 had on the rise of Donald Trump and all he stands for? Myself, I can't really put a particular "ism" to the MAGA phenomenon. A lot of words are bandied about, but what really fits? Not sure.

Maybe this question has been asked before, but it has come into my mind and I think it worth asking.

Hopefully this will not degenerate into useless arguments and name calling.

9/11. When the heart of American is struck in the way it was, this by "foreign" forces, the whole thing must have had some sort of deep seated effect upon the American psyche. Would any such effect have contributed to the apparent popularity of Donald Trump?

Just asking.

Thanks

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hunkalove · 70-79, M

I remember when it happened and Trump bragged that now he owned the tallest building in Manhattan.

LesDawsonsPiano · 70-79

@hunkalove Well, what can you say? Seems par for the course.

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On the Snopes Fact Check of Donald Trump's actual words they sum up:-

So it is true that during the course of that interview, in response to a query about whether his own buildings had sustained any damage, Trump stated, in reference to the Trump Building, that "now it's the tallest" [in downtown Manhattan]. Whether that remark constituted "bragging" is a matter of subjective interpretation, however.

(I read a really great book on 9/11, "The Only Plane in the Sky", which was an oral history of that day - deeply moving, and some great heroism shown by so many)

hunkalove · 70-79, M

@LesDawsonsPiano If you saw the film of him saying it, he was smiling.

LesDawsonsPiano · 70-79

@hunkalove Certainly an insensitive thing to say given the circumstances.