--- title: Donald Trump Stands by 9/11 Cheering Claims description: Despite a lack of evidence, Donald Trump on Sunday kept pushing the claim that he saw cheering from Muslims on 9/11 canonical: https://time.com/4128654/donald-trump-9-11-cheering/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-29T17:30:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:56:41.587Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Stands By 9/11 Cheering Claims og:description: "I saw it on television. I saw clips. And so did many other people." og:url: https://time.com/4128654/donald-trump-9-11-cheering/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33ff7408976232ee/698872fe5f570f8f87b1e902/trump2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Stands By 9/11 Cheering Claims twitter:description: "I saw it on television. I saw clips. And so did many other people." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33ff7408976232ee/698872fe5f570f8f87b1e902/trump2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Stands by 9/11 Cheering Claims by [Sally Bronston / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Sally Bronston / NBC News Nov 29, 2015 5:30 PM UTC  Donald Trump addresses supporters in Columbus, OH on Nov. 23, 2015. Donald Trump addresses supporters in Columbus, OH on Nov. 23, 2015.Ty Wright—Getty Images by [Sally Bronston / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Sally Bronston / NBC News Nov 29, 2015 5:30 PM UTC Despite a lack of evidence, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Sunday kept pushing the claim that he saw cheering from Muslims in New Jersey on September 11, 2001. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, the Republican frontrunner said, “I saw it. So many people saw it … So, why would I take it back? I’m not going to take it back.” Asked where he witnessed this, Trump replied, “I saw it on television. I saw clips. And so did many other people. And many people saw it in person. I’ve had hundreds of phone calls to the Trump Organization saying, ‘We saw it. It was dancing in the streets.'” [_Read more from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-9-11-cheering-claims-im-not-going-take-it-n470876?cid=par-time%5F20151129) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4128654/donald-trump-9-11-cheering/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4128654/donald-trump-9-11-cheering/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Stands by 9/11 Cheering Claims","datePublished":"2015-11-29T17:30:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:56:41.587Z","description":"\"I saw it on television. I saw clips. And so did many other people\"","url":"https://time.com/4128654/donald-trump-9-11-cheering/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33ff7408976232ee/698872fe5f570f8f87b1e902/trump2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sally Bronston / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33ff7408976232ee/698872fe5f570f8f87b1e902/trump2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trump","caption":"Donald Trump addresses supporters in Columbus, OH on Nov. 23, 2015.","creditText":"Ty Wright—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4128654/donald-trump-9-11-cheering/","name":"Donald Trump Stands by 9/11 Cheering Claims"}}]}] ```