Joe Biden dons Trump hat at 9/11 event in the name of unity

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – President Joe Biden briefly wore a Trump hat Wednesday in the name of unity while attending an event recognizing the first responders affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates wrote in a tweet.

To honor the lives lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance all appeared at Ground Zero in New York City and the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

While Biden was in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the president and Harris stopped at a fire department to visit people affected by the attack. The president spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack and as a nod to that message, Biden agreed to wear an attendees’ “Trump 2024” hat, Bates tweeted.

“At the Shanksville Fire Station, [Biden] spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that. As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it,” the tweet from Bates read.

Trump also visited the Shanksville Fire Department after Biden during his trip to the Flight 93 memorial.

In 2023, Biden spent the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Anchorage, Alaska, on his way back from the G20 summit in India. Biden’s trip to Alaska broke the decades-long tradition of honoring victims of the terrorist attacks in the Washington, D.C., area or at the New York City or Somerset County, Pennsylvania, crash sites.

The president came under fire while in Alaska in 2023 after he claimed he visited the site of the terrorist attack in New York City on Sept. 12, 2001. The White House failed to provide the Daily Caller with evidence that Biden went on such a trip, instead pointing to two articles and a photo showing that Biden visited the wreckage of the World Trade Centers on Sept. 20, 2001.