Trump Jokes That 9/11 Hero ‘The Man in the Red Bandana' Is More Famous Than He Is: ‘I Don't Like It'

President Donald Trump quipped that a legendary hero of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks known as "the man in the red bandana" was more famous than he is on Tuesday, adding that he's "very unhappy" about it. Trump spoke during a somber ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to honor several 9/11 heroes during the "Steel Across America" event put on by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Among those heroes was Welles Crowther, an equities trader working for Sandler O'Neill & Partners in the South Tower, who was credited with saving at least 18 lives in the building before it collapsed. Trump said: Today we also remember another hero of 9/11. After the plane hit the South Tower, a group of people on the 78th floor were trapped with broken bones, charred skin and eyes, and lungs filled with black smoke, death was all about them. It was certain. They were sure they were going to die. Then suddenly, a rescuer appeared. They call him "the man in the red bandana" — have you heard that term? He's become more famous than me, I don't like it. Very unhappy, but he's become much more famous than me. The man in the red bandana, he had found the only stairwell that barely survived, the stairwells were all knocked down. You couldn't get by, impassable. He found an opening in one of the stairwells. The impact was so great, there was no other way down, but this one little opening, this one little hole, and traveled down from the 104th floor to look for those trapped and dying. When he heard cries for help on the 78th floor, he began extinguishing the fires, blocking the exit, directing survivors who could walk, of which there weren't that many. He helped some out physically. They literally pulled them out toward the only working stairwell and carried those who couldn't walk, and he just did things that people said were not even imaginable because they knew they were dead. they said, "We're goners." One guy was screaming, "We're goners, we're goners." He did not know those he helped and nor who would have known, he willingly made all of these trips up and down, up and down, up and down, over and over again, saving life after life. That rescuer was a 24-year-old equities trader and volunteer firefighter from Rockland County named Welles Crowther and Welle's father is a great firefighter and had given him that bandana as a special tribute when he was a boy, probably knew something about his son. When asked why he always kept it, Welles replied, 'With this red bandana, I'm going to change the world. I'm gonna change the world with this bandana.' Little did he know on September 11, Welles saved many, many people before losing his life in the South Tower lobby when the building came down. He was in the lobby and that building came down, thousands of tons of steel. Trump then presented Crowther's mother and sister with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in his honor. "In honor of his incredible bravery and all of the other countless unknown acts of heroism that day, it is my privilege to award the special, the highest honor that we give, highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom," Trump said. "We want to award that to Welles and Welles' family." He added: "Welles is up there looking down at his mom and sister, family. So I would ask his mother, Alison, and sister, Paige, come up and we will present them with the medal, but we'll also present them with a very important designation, very, very important." The Tunnel to Towers was founded by Frank Siller, the brother of FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller, who was killed on 9/11. Watch above via Fox News. The post Trump Jokes That 9/11 Hero 'The Man in the Red Bandana' Is More Famous Than He Is: 'I Don't Like It' first appeared on Mediaite.