After laying a wreath at the 9/11 Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville on Wednesday, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited the local fire department. As first responders looked on, Biden grabbed a Trump 2024 hat as he grinned widely. 

Joe Biden put on a Trump 2024 hat in Shanksville, PA today pic.twitter.com/SoP2eVlx8M

— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) September 11, 2024

A White House spokesman explained the president’s surprising act as a “bipartisan” gesture meant to show the country’s “unity” after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City 23 years ago. 

“At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that,” White House Senior Deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a post to X. 

“As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it,” Bates concluded. 

At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that.

As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it. https://t.co/7VKZnkVMY7

— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) September 11, 2024

Trump also visited the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department on Wednesday during his honoring of the 9/11 memorial.

All 40 passengers on Flight 93 died on Sept. 11, 2001, after they foiled the hijackers’ plan to crash the plane into a building in Washington, D.C. They are remembered as heroes.