Honestly, I think you read too much into his comment...
I didn’t get any direct disrespect to the people of NYC who did suffer that day...
It was more a reference to the persona of NYC being a limousine liberal, elitist hub that thinks the world revolves around them.
Sorry to put too fine a point on it and you can crumple this up and throw it away but it’s what I think he meant.
I know exactly what he meant. He made light of the smell of death that wforeverywhere then. Thanks foe your concern.