2026-09-11
During a 9/11 anniversary commemoration event at the Pentagon, President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth both made remarks that connected the September 11, 2001 attacks to the ongoing war with Iran.
All sides report the same basic event: Trump and Hegseth linking 9/11 to the Iran war during Pentagon remarks. The New York Times frames this through a critical lens, suggesting Trump is echoing the same 'forever wars' logic he has previously criticized, implying a contradiction or irony. The center outlets (BBC, The Hill) report the link more descriptively and factually, focusing on what was said without evaluating its implications. The New York Post, from the right, presents the link neutrally to favorably, using Trump's own quote ('That's why we fight today') to let him explain the justification directly, and notes Hegseth's parallel framing without characterizing it as contradictory.
Frames Trump's remarks as an ironic or hypocritical embrace of the same risk-intolerant, interventionist logic behind the 'forever wars' he has publicly criticized in the past.
The president appeared to embrace the idea that after 9/11, no risk can be tolerated, an echo of reasoning used by previous American officials in the “forever wars” that he has long denounced.
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