New York (AP) – The government of President Donald Trump said on Friday that the federal government can take control of the 9/11 monument and the Museum in New York City.
The location in Lower Manhattan, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed by kidnapped jetliners on September 11, 2001, has two memorial pools that were displayed by waterfalls and parapets with the names of the dead and an underground museum. Since the opening of the public in 2014, the memorial Plaza and the museum have been led by a public charity organization under the chair of the former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, a repeated Trump critic.
The White House confirmed that the administration had “preliminary explorative discussions” about the idea, but has refused to become sophisticated. The office found that during his campaign last year, the Republican promised to make the site a national monument that was protected and serviced by the Federal Government.
However, civil servants of the National September 11th Memorial & Museum say that the federal government cannot be adopted on one side according to the applicable laws the site that is located on the land of the port authority of New York and New York and New Jersey.
The US government, which shoulder the costs and management of the location, also makes no sense, since Trump’s efforts to dramatically repetate the German Bundeline, said Beth Hillman, the president and CEO of the organization.
“We are proud that our exhibitions tell stories about bravery and patriotism and confidently that our current operational model has served the public honestly and effectively,” she said, noting that the organization has collected 750 million US dollars since its opening of private funds and greeted around 90 million visitors.
Last year, the museum generated sales of more than 93 million US dollars and spent around 84 million US dollars for operating costs, so that according to museum officials and the last available tax applications, a surplus of almost 9 million US dollars has achieved.
In the meantime, the New York governor Kathy Hochul commented on her own concerns regarding the admission of the federal government and cited the recent efforts of the Trump government to influence American history through its national monuments and museums, including Smithsonian.
The takeover idea is only carried out for a few months after the Trump management was cut briefly, but then restored again and a federal program has occupied that people with diseases that may be connected to poisonous dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.
“The 9/11 monument belongs to the New York – the families, survivors and first aiders who have led this inheritance for more than two decades and have ensured that we have never forgotten,” said Hochul in an explanation. “Before he interferes in this sacred site, the president should initially support survivors and the families of the victims.”
Anthoula Katsmatides, a member of the museum board who lost her brother John in the attack, said she had seen no reason to change the property.
“They do an incredible job that tells the story of this day without procuring it,” she said. “It is going so well, I don’t understand why there has to be a change. I don’t see what advantage there would be.”
The monument and the museum, however, were the goal of the criticism of some members of the vast community of families of the 9/11 victims over the years, of which some ticket prices criticized or asked for changes in the make -up of the museum’s exhibitions.
Trump spokesman refused to respond to the comments.
A total of almost 3,000 people were killed when the kidnappers Jetliner fell into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in the southwest of Pennsylvania during the attacks on September 11th. More than 2,700 of these victims died in the fiery collapse of the twin storms of the trade center.
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