The Trump Top 10: 2 — Terrorism of and by the American People
7 min readJan 16, 2021
On September 11, 2001, I was a recent college graduate, dutifully working at my computer when I heard my coworker Kenny call out, “Terrorism! Terrorism!” I laughed.
At that time, I was 21 years old, and during my lifetime, I only knew terrorism as a theme in action movies. Throughout my youth, terrorists were usually Russian. After that day, they’d usually be depicted in film and television as Middle Eastern.
My initial instinct when I saw footage of the first airplane hit the World Trade Center was…