Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax on Wednesday that he is “on the mend” after a New Hampshire car accident left him with a fractured back.
On Greg Kelly Reports, he recounted the crash, his recovery, and thanked President Trump for awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“I am on the mend,” Giuliani told host Greg Kelly. “It was quite a hit. We got banged in the back. I have — technically, I have a broken back. It’s a fracture. It hurts, but it’s getting better. And I have about two or three weeks of rehabilitation.”
Giuliani said he and aide Ted Goodman stopped to help a woman claiming domestic abuse, but police later arrested her for assault. As he left the scene, chaos broke out.
“As we were driving away, we got hit in the back by a young woman,” Giuliani said. “I’m sure she was rubbernecking because there were police cars, ambulances, even a fire truck. She was going very, very fast … We got hit like hell.”
Giuliani said his seat belt restrained him as his body jolted, leaving him with whiplash and a fractured vertebra.
Days after the crash, Trump announced Giuliani would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, praising him on Truth Social as New York’s “greatest mayor” and a “great American patriot.” Giuliani, who led NYC through 9/11 and became a top Trump ally, said the honor lifted his spirits.
“It’s a nice medal. I forgot what it looked like. I have to tell you, that cured me,” Giuliani said. “President Trump takes some credit for curing me from COVID … and now he’s cured me of a fractured back, because the minute I got that award, all the pain went away. The hell with the pain.”
Rudy Giuliani says his car crash pain vanished after a phone call from President Trump – and a promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“It was the best medicine,” Rudy said. “Totally cured me. Again.”
The former mayor credits @POTUS for saving him from COVID and crash… pic.twitter.com/hAOzGHGHyW
— LindellTV (@RealLindellTV) September 3, 2025
