Trevor Noah runs through Trump's history of 'bizarre, emotionally out-of-step' comments on 9/11

Trevor Noah recaps Trump's history of talking about 9/11
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President Trump's terse 9/11 tweet on Tuesday — "17 years since September 11th!" — "upset a lot of people," Trevor Noah said on The Daily Show. But give the president some credit, he said. "It is the most factually accurate thing Trump has tweeted about in about three months." More to the point, "compared to what Trump normally says about 9/11, today's tweet was a huge step in the right direction," Noah added. "Because Trump has never been able to talk about 9/11, on Twitter or in real life, without being totally weird about it." He ran thorough some of the "bizarre, emotionally out-of-step s--t about 9/11" Trump has said since, well, Sept. 11, 2001, when he focused on how he now had the tallest building in Lower Manhattan.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.