George Bush 9/11 Meme Template
The photograph shows Andrew Card informing President George W. Bush about the second plane striking the World Trade Center while Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School on September 11, 2001. The original event was a terrorist attack with mass casualties. Know Your Meme documents later caption and image macros, including the “Sir, a second X has hit” phrasing, which repurpose the image to depict sudden bad news. Because the source event is a real mass-casualty tragedy, use any parody only for clearly trivial, fictional mishaps; do not joke about the victims, the attacks, or their aftermath. The image’s serious expression supplies the gravity and shock.
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What the George Bush 9/11 meme means
The photograph shows Andrew Card informing President George W. Bush about the second plane striking the World Trade Center while Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School on September 11, 2001. The original event was a terrorist attack with mass casualties. Know Your Meme documents later caption and image macros, including the “Sir, a second X has hit” phrasing, which repurpose the image to depict sudden bad news. Because the source event is a real mass-casualty tragedy, use any parody only for clearly trivial, fictional mishaps; do not joke about the victims, the attacks, or their aftermath. The image’s serious expression supplies the gravity and shock.
A news photograph shows President George W. Bush seated in a Florida elementary school classroom while White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card leans close to whisper to him. Bush looks forward with a restrained, serious expression. The image has no baked-in captions; one editable text area sits above the photo and one below it.
How the joke works
Slot 1 (top) begins a grave-sounding notification, often “SIR, A SECOND [ordinary problem] HAS HIT…” Slot 2 (bottom) adds the second detail or consequence that escalates a harmless inconvenience. Keep the absurd mismatch clear: the phrasing and Bush’s expression make a tiny inconvenience sound like breaking national news. Use fictional or low-stakes subjects only, and never substitute details that make light of real attacks or victims.
- Top caption: deliver the first grave-sounding notification about a harmless, fictional problem.
- Bottom caption: add a connected second problem or consequence that escalates the trivial situation.
Caption examples
- SIR, A SECOND PRINTER ERROR HAS HIT
- THE FIRST ONE WAS ALSO “OUT OF PAPER”
The two lines escalate a mundane, harmless office inconvenience using mock-serious delivery.
- SIR, A SECOND REAL ATTACK HAS HIT
- THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE DEAD
This directly trivializes or restages a real mass-casualty tragedy.
Situations it fits
- A minor household problem that compounds another small problem
- A fictional workplace or software mishap escalated as urgent news
- A harmless inconvenience described in overly grave language
When this format does not fit
- Never make jokes about 9/11 victims, the attacks, or their aftermath.
- Do not treat a real catastrophe, death, or serious injury as a trivial inconvenience.
- Do not use unrelated lines; the lower caption should escalate the first harmless problem.
- Keep the scenario clearly fictional or low-stakes so the parody target is overreaction, not the real historical event.
