Donald Trump mixes up '9/11' with '7/11'

April 20, 2016 03:43

Gaffe-prone Donald Trump, who has made his advocacy for New York City after the 9/11 terror attacks central to his run for the White House, accidentally referred to it as 7/Eleven -- a popular chain of convenience

stores.

The 69-year-old Republican front-runner made the blunder while campaigning on the eve of the high-stakes presidential primary here by getting the date of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001.

"I wrote this out, and it's very close to my heart," he said at the outset of his remarks yesterday.

"Because I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down. And I saw the greatest people I've ever seen in action," he said at a campaign rally at the First Niagara Center in downtown Buffalo.

The billionaire businessman did not correct himself, US media reported.

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