Today, President Donald Trump stood beside steel recovered from the WTC World Trade Center South Tower and honored Welles Crowther the “Man in the Red Bandana.” at the 9/11 Steel Across America ceremony today
Trump’s speech kept returning to a vertical vocabulary: towers knocked down, a nation that stood back up, Crowther going up and down the stairs to save others.
Trump said the steel reminds us that “America will fight, America will endure, and America will prevail.”
So I stood the steel upright. I placed Crowther’s red bandana at its summit an echo, for me, of the old Liberty cap imagery of the American revolutionary age.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
September 8, 2026
Original political cartoon © 2026 Maria Grasmick
"All of these years later, we gather on another Tuesday morning in September to reaffirm the sacred vow we made a quarter of a century ago: WE WILL NEVER FORGET. Today we also remember another hero of 9/11... Welles Crowther." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸