The Media Beat with David Tereshchuk
Sep 4, 2026 · 13 min · 6 segments
Ahead of next week’s 25th commemoration for the 9/11 attacks, we have news of an eventual trial-date for the alleged perpetrators. Given so much prejudicial media coverage, can we realistically…
As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9-11, it's become clear that the president will not be at the ceremony in New York on the site of the Twin Towers destruction and the loss there of nearly 3,000 lives.
He prefers to be at the other targeted building, the Pentagon in D.C., His liking for the trappings of a military setting are, of course, well known, but also well known, made ever clearer by some reporting over the past two weeks, is his strong dislike for being barred from making a speech, which is the ground rule at Ground Zero Commemorations, no speeches, essentially a simple, sombre reading of the names of those killed.
having participated silently and out of office, incidentally, in both 2024 and further back in 2016.
The recent reporting I referred to about Trump's desire to speechify at this year's Solemn Observance was led by The New York Times' Maggie Haberman.
who you might remember me highlighting a month ago, as a correspondent who's able to achieve much up-close reporting and highly revealing coverage of the President, and yet still stay on sort of cordial terms with him.
Trump exploded in fury on his social media site, calling her, among other things, a, quote, fake reporter because of her revelation that he wanted to make a speech at Ground Zero.
He used some even more than usually vituperative language, which I don't need to quote verbatim.
Neither did CNN's Jake Tapper, who simply used the word filth to describe the president's posting.
Haberman, for her part, has merely said that she and her Times employers stand by their reporting.
They had offered the White House the chance to comment on the story before publication and didn't believe its answer addressed the substance of their report.
What Trump's deputy press secretary, Ann Kelly, did say, stepping up for the very familiar but now departed Caroline Leavitt, was that their boss is, quote, a patriotic New Yorker.
Actual history, though, might somewhat question that proclaimed New Yorker identity, since as president...
Trump has attended 9-11 commemorations purely at the Pentagon three times, or twice at the Pennsylvania site where United Flight 93 was crashed.
Haberman has acknowledged, as we all can, that other considerations besides Manhattan's prohibition against speechmaking may well have played a part in Trump's choice of venue this year.
It could be true, as his people have been claiming, that his personal security will be better protected at the Pentagon.
Sources in the Secret Service do say that concern is running high about assassination threats, not least from Iran.
A menacing video message played on the Islamic Republic of Iran broadcasting service and aimed specifically against his youngest son, Baron, have certainly served to heighten the bodyguard's concern.
Just by the way, the latest pictures released of a now young adult Baron have displayed an uncanny likeness to his older half-brothers, Eric and Donald Jr., For instance, the same slicked-back, glossy hairstyle, though without as yet the middle-aged guy's full beard, and in Barron's photos there is, in a gesture evoking their father, a defiant upward thrust of the Trumpian fist, as demonstrated by the eldest Trump just after the assassination attempt of two years ago.
As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9-11, it's become clear that the president will not be at the ceremony in New York on the site of the Twin Towers destruction and the loss there of nearly 3,000 lives.
He prefers to be at the other targeted building, the Pentagon in D.C., His liking for the trappings of a military setting are, of course, well known, but also well known, made ever clearer by some reporting over the past two weeks, is his strong dislike for being barred from making a speech, which is the ground rule at Ground Zero Commemorations, no speeches, essentially a simple, sombre reading of the names of those killed.
having participated silently and out of office, incidentally, in both 2024 and further back in 2016.
The recent reporting I referred to about Trump's desire to speechify at this year's Solemn Observance was led by The New York Times' Maggie Haberman.
who you might remember me highlighting a month ago, as a correspondent who's able to achieve much up-close reporting and highly revealing coverage of the President, and yet still stay on sort of cordial terms with him.
Trump exploded in fury on his social media site, calling her, among other things, a, quote, fake reporter because of her revelation that he wanted to make a speech at Ground Zero.
He used some even more than usually vituperative language, which I don't need to quote verbatim.
Neither did CNN's Jake Tapper, who simply used the word filth to describe the president's posting.
Haberman, for her part, has merely said that she and her Times employers stand by their reporting.
They had offered the White House the chance to comment on the story before publication and didn't believe its answer addressed the substance of their report.
What Trump's deputy press secretary, Ann Kelly, did say, stepping up for the very familiar but now departed Caroline Leavitt, was that their boss is, quote, a patriotic New Yorker.
Actual history, though, might somewhat question that proclaimed New Yorker identity, since as president...
Trump has attended 9-11 commemorations purely at the Pentagon three times, or twice at the Pennsylvania site where United Flight 93 was crashed.
Haberman has acknowledged, as we all can, that other considerations besides Manhattan's prohibition against speechmaking may well have played a part in Trump's choice of venue this year.
It could be true, as his people have been claiming, that his personal security will be better protected at the Pentagon.
Sources in the Secret Service do say that concern is running high about assassination threats, not least from Iran.
A menacing video message played on the Islamic Republic of Iran broadcasting service and aimed specifically against his youngest son, Baron, have certainly served to heighten the bodyguard's concern.
Just by the way, the latest pictures released of a now young adult Baron have displayed an uncanny likeness to his older half-brothers, Eric and Donald Jr., For instance, the same slicked-back, glossy hairstyle, though without as yet the middle-aged guy's full beard, and in Barron's photos there is, in a gesture evoking their father, a defiant upward thrust of the Trumpian fist, as demonstrated by the eldest Trump just after the assassination attempt of two years ago.
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