Our Great American Flag is draped across the west side of the Pentagon in memory of the lives lost 24 years ago today 🇺🇸

24 years ago, at 8:46 AM, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, starting off the first of four attacks that would occur that morning.

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At 9:03 AM, United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the southern facade of the World Trade Center's South Tower.

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POTUS and FLOTUS stand for the National Anthem alongside SecWar and the thejointstaff Chairman at the Pentagon 9/11 observance ceremony.

Footage shows a brawl breaking out outside the Idaho Capitol after a man rode a scooter through a vigil, shouting ‘Fuck Charlie Kirk.’

BREAKING: The FBI says the bolt-action high-powered rifle used to assassinate Charlie Kirk was recovered in a wooded area near the college campus.

FBI SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE ROBERT BOHLS asks for the public's help in sending in any VIDEOs of the event.

SUSPECT: Appears to be of college age.

"Blended in well with the institution."

John Roberts

Law enforcement update:

- FBI has "good" surveillance images of Charlie Kirk assassin but won't release them right now.
- Person was tracked jumping off the building and fleeing into a neighborhood.
- Bolt-action rifle found in wooded area.
- Assassin appears "college aged".

"I can tell you that this was a targeted event. We don't believe that the community is at risk."

FBI Salt Lake City Special Agent says they are exhausting every resource to find the suspect who killed Charlie Kirk, "and we will do so."

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At 9:37 AM, American Airlines Flight 77 strikes the western side of the Pentagon.

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Reports saying the shooter used a Mauser 30.06 rifle. One spent round in the chamber, with engraved ideological anti-fascist phrases on the shell casings.

FIND. THIS. BASTARD. NOW.

WATCH: Tulare County Sheriff Boudreaux says, “My heart sunk” when he heard about the Charlie Kirk assassination.

Boudreaux described the shooting as an unbelievable and cowardly act, committed by someone “who obviously is not within their right mind.”

Thursday: Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorm potential today. Heavy rain potential continues.

Los Angeles, last night.. 🤬🤬

Make these demons famous

End Wokeness

A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job. It was Charlie Kirk, and that moment of kindness began a friendship that lasted until today.

Charlie was fascinated by ideas and always willing to learn and change his mind. Like me, he was skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016. Like me, he came to see President Trump as the only figure capable of moving American politics away from the globalism that had dominated for our entire lives. When others were right, he learned from them. When he was right--as he usually was--he was generous. With Charlie, the attitude was never, "I told you so." But: "welcome."

Charlie was one of the first people I called when I thought about running for senate in early 2021. I was interested but skeptical there was a pathway. We talked through everything, from the strategy to the fundraising to the grassroots of the movement he knew so well. He introduced me to some of the people who would run my campaign and also to Donald Trump Jr. "Like his dad, he's misunderstood. He's extremely smart, and very much on our wavelength." Don took a call from me because Charlie asked him too.

Long before I ever committed (even in my mind) to running, Charlie had me speak to his donors at a TPUSA event. He walked me around the room and introduced me. He gave me honest feedback on my remarks. He had no reason to do this, no expectation that I'd go anywhere. I was polling, at that point, well below 5 percent. He did it because we were friends, and because he was a good man.

When I became the VP nominee--something Charlie advocated for both in public and private--Charlie was there for me. I was so glad to be part of the president's team, but candidly surprised by the effect it had on our family. Our kids, especially our oldest, struggled with the attention and the constant presence of the protective detail. I felt this acute sense of guilt, that I had conscripted my kids into this life without getting their permission. And Charlie was constantly calling and texting, checking on our family and offering guidance and prayers. Some of our most successful events were organized not by the campaign, but by TPUSA. He wasn't just a thinker, he was a doer, turning big ideas into bigger events with thousands of activists. And after every event, he would give me a big hug, tell me he was praying for me, and ask me what he could do. "You focus on Wisconsin," he'd tell me. "Arizona is in the bag." And it was.

Charlie genuinely believed in and loved Jesus Christ. He had a profound faith. We used to argue about Catholicism and Protestantism and who was right about minor doctrinal questions. Because he loved God, he wanted to understand him.

Someone else pointed out that Charlie died doing what he loved: discussing ideas. He would go into these hostile crowds and answer their questions. If it was a friendly crowd, and a progressive asked a question to jeers from the audience, he'd encourage his fans to calm down and let everyone speak. He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.

Charlie had an uncanny ability to know when to push the envelope and when to be more conventional. I've seen people attack him for years for being wrong on this or that issue publicly, never realizing that privately he was working to broaden the scope of acceptable debate.

He was a great family man. I was talking to President Trump in the Oval Office today, and he said, "I know he was a very good friend of yours." I nodded silently, and President Trump observed that Charlie really loved his family. The president was right. Charlie was so proud of Erika and the two kids. He was so happy to be a father. And he felt such gratitude for having found a woman of God with whom he could build a family.

Charlie Kirk was a true friend. The kind of guy you could say something to and know it would always stay with him. I am on more than a few group chats with Charlie and people he introduced me to over the years. We celebrate weddings and babies, bust each other's chops, and mourn the loss of loved ones. We talk about politics and policy and sports and life. These group chats include people at the very highest level of our government. They trusted him, loved him, and knew he'd always have their backs. And because he was a true friend ,you could instinctively trust the people Charlie introduced you to. So much of the success we've had in this administration traces directly to Charlie's ability to organize and convene. He didn't just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.

I was in a meeting in the West Wing when those group chats started lighting up with people telling Charlie they were praying for him. And that's how I learned the news that my friend had been shot. I prayed a lot over the next hour, as first good news and then bad trickled in.

God didn't answer those prayers, and that's OK. He had other plans. And now that Charlie is in heaven, I'll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly.

You ran a good race, my friend.

We've got it from here.

JD Vance

At 10:03 AM, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The heroic efforts by the passengers and crew prevented additional lives from being lost at the U.S. Capital Building, which was later identified to be the intended target.

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24 years later, POTUS shares some of the harrowing last words of 9/11 victims.

NEVER FORGET.

President Donald J. Trump: "I am pleased to announce that I will soon be awarding Charlie Kirk, posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom."

President Donald J. Trump on the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: "This morning, we recall the light of America's best and bravest and the love they showed in their final moments In their memory, we make a solemn pledge and a noble promise: we will honor — always — our great heroes."

At 10:28 AM, 102 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, the building collapsed.

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