19 years ago today, Britney Spears opened the 2007 VMAs with Gimme More, one of the most scrutinized performances in history.
The backlash quickly became bigger than the performance itself, feeding into the relentless media coverage, public ridicule and invasive scrutiny.
Raw 9/11 footage by Park Foreman / taken from near State and Clinton Streets, Brooklyn. United Airlines Flight 175 was the second plane hijacked on September 11, 2001, and it crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
Many people weren’t even born yet, while others have conveniently forgotten, or chosen to forget, what happened. And now they’ve voted for a jihadist to lead New York City.
History has a brutal way of repeating itself when people refuse to remember it.
Survivors of the South Tower recall seeing people jump from the North.
This didn't just happen. This was inflicted on those people, this nation, by The Religion of Peace ™️.
And 25 years later NYC has a Muslim mayor and an al Qaeda lawyer as head counsel.
Quit letting this happen, America.
25 years.
This Friday the names will be read again in the footprints where the towers stood.
2,977 souls that morning.
343 firefighters who ran toward the fire.
Ordinary people who held a stranger’s hand on a stairwell and never came home.
We do not remember 9/11 because the footage still shocks us.
We remember because a nation that forgets what was taken will not keep what was built after.
Light a candle. Say a name. Tell a kid who wasn’t born yet why those two beams still rise over Manhattan at dusk.
Never forget is not a slogan.
It is a promise.
Who are you remembering this week?
This video of 9-11 in 2001 is trending in 2026 because many are saying it's the first time they've seen the video. It shows the plane hitting the second tower.