After the 9/11 “Tribute in Light” was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera told “Fox & Friends” that he thinks the decision has more to do with the ” symbolic “of the place President Trump.
Rivera called it the “saddest story” Friday after the 9/11 Memorial and Museum said on its website that the iconic memorial display honoring victims of terror attacks will not shine this year due to health risks.
TUCKER SLAMS DEMOCRATS, MEDIA FOR THEIR SILENCE AS RESIDENTS FLEE AMERICA’S CITIES IN DROVES
“This is like Biden-Harris’ commandment that everyone, regardless of state or rural, suburban, urban, regardless of institution, should wear a mask as in public,” Rivera said.
The annual Tribute in Light will appear across Army Manhattan on September 11, 2017, shown from Jersey City, NJ (Photo by Gary Hershorn / Getty Images)
“It has the stench that we put it to the president and make life as grim as we can and then try to blame Donald Trump with the responsibility for it,” Rivera added. “It’s the hardest kind of partisan policy you can possibly imagine.”
The decision to cancel the “Tribute in Light” comes after the museum also deleted the personal reading of names of 9/11 victims at the annual Ground Zero ceremony.
PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES $ 2M BEFORE SEPT. 11 MEMORIAL IN NYC
“The fact that they left this noble project before 9/11 is a kind of surrender in New York City, a task of the things that made the city great, suddenly disappear,” Rivera said.
“This is part and parcel of the surrender of urban America that I think is part politics and I think that part of politics stinks. You have to get rid of that. Let’s clear the air, let’s science talk, and stop doing, you know, these flamboyant gestures that were really designed to stick it out to the President of the United States. “
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
A new plan called the “Tribute in Lights” will have buildings in the city with their facades and spikes illuminated in blue on September 11 this year, and the non-profit, The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, announced it will hold its own separate ceremony hold select family members of victims of 9/11 will read the names of their loved ones, reports the New York Post.
The annual reading of the names of victims of 9/11 at Ground Zero will not take place this year. Instead, a recording of past readings will be played, reports The Post.
