After referring to Kovaleski as “a nice reporter,” Trump launched into an impression of him, pointedly flopping his right arm around with his hand held at an odd angle while saying (in imitation of Kovaleski): “Now, the poor guy, you’ve got to see this guy: ‘Uhh, I don’t know what I said.
Serge Kovaleski suffers from arthrogryposis, a condition which limits the movement of joints and is particularly noticeable in Kovaleski’s right arm and hand.
When Kovaleski pointed out that there were never any reports (not even unsubstantiated ones) of “thousands” or even “hundreds” of people celebrating the 9/11 attacks in the New York area, as Trump claimed to have witnessed, Trump countered with a retort in which he criticized the journalist for attempting to “back away” from his previous article and seemingly mocked Kovaleski’s physical appearance. In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners’ plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river. Not good.Īfter Trump was widely criticized for attempting to pass off an urban legend as fact, the candidate responded by citing as proof of his claim an 18 September 2001 Washington Post article by reporter Serge Kovaleski that made passing reference to “people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks”: There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Now, I know they don’t like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down - as those buildings came down. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. Shortly afterwards, defending his remarks during an appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Trump maintained: And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. Trump referenced the Paris attacks by invoking the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York in 2001, in the process not only repeating the long since debunked claim that crowds of “Arabs” (or “Muslims” or “Palestinians”) were seen in local streets cheering the attack, but claiming that he had personally witnessed the phenomenon:
#TRUMP MOCKS A DISABLED REPORTER SERIES#
In November 2015, shortly after a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, France, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was on the campaign trail in Alabama.
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