Donald Trump went out on a limb today, calling the Freedom Tower a “piece of crap” and has endorsed a rival design that is closely modeled on the destroyed towers.
Why is Trump endorsing a design that has already failed? “Bigger and better” is definitely not better.
If those towers hadn’t collapsed, we would be measuring the body count in the hundreds, not in the thousands. Most of the casualties happened when the towers went down, not when the jumbo jets hit.
But, with the Freedom Tower design under review and the entire project in disarray, everybody is putting in their two cents.
They should never again put 25,000+ people into a death trap like the old World Trade Center. Those offices and businesses should be underground so that they will never be vulnerable to terrorist strikes from the air.
The World Trade Center was a symbol of New York and of the United States; it was attacked twice and destroyed once; it will be attacked again if it is rebuilt as it was before, so it should be hardened to protect the people who work within. It is easier to stop a terrorist bomber at a security gate than it is to stop a hijacked 767 going 500mph and heading toward a 1,368 foot high target.
So Trump’s dead wrong about his idea. It would be a symbolic move to rebuild bigger towers and pack them full of people. Nothing more.
It's a failed design and a bad idea, Mr. Trump.
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