President Donald Trump isn’t done patting himself on the back for supposedly flagging a notorious terrorist ahead of the devastating 9/11 attack.
In a meandering speech to commemorate the Navy’s 250th birthday on Sunday, Trump rehashed his years-old claim that he was ahead of the curve when it came to Osama bin Laden, the infamous founder of terrorist group al-Qaeda.
“Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago [sic] before he blew up the World Trade Center, and I said, ‘You got to watch Osama bin Laden,’” Trump said, citing his own book, “whatever the hell the title, I can’t tell you.”
“There’s a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden, and I didn’t like it, and you got to take care of him. They didn’t do it. A year later, he blew up the World Trade Center so,” the president went on. “Got to take a little credit, because nobody else is going to give it to me. You know the old story: They don’t give you credit, just take it yourself.”
Trump has made this claim several times since the publication of his book, The America We Deserve, in 2000. But the president oversold what he actually said about bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan in 2011.
Though Trump does mention bin Laden in his book, he didn’t say that the militant leader should have been killed.
“One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin Laden is public enemy Number One, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan,” Trump wrote in his book. “He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”
In 2021, Trump dismissed bin Laden as only having “one hit” while touting the terrorists killed during his first administration.
“We took out the founder of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, and then of course Soleimani,” Trump said in an interview at the time, adding that Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was “bigger by many, many times” than bin Laden.
“Osama bin Laden had one hit, and it was a bad one, in New York City, the World Trade Center. But these other two guys were monsters. They were monsters,” he said.
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>“There’s a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden, and I didn’t like it, and you got to take care of him. They didn’t do it. A year later, he blew up the World Trade Center so,” the president went on. “Got to take a little credit, because nobody else is going to give it to me. You know the old story: They don’t give you credit, just take it yourself.”
I wonder how close this is to what his ghostwriter actually wrote…
>“One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin Laden is public enemy Number One, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan,” Trump wrote in his book. “He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”
Yup.
veggeble on
That’s because his book was ghostwritten, and he has never actually read the book he claims to have written. He doesn’t actually know what it says, he just makes shit up.
KarmaSilencesYou on
Donny took out Lee Harvey Oswald too didn’t he? John Wilkes Booth?
If he would have been there it would have never happened. Its all Sleepy Joes fault.
Fit-Significance-436 on
What a try hard
whoisbill on
He’s no different than North Korea. Soon we will hear how he has 18 holes in one playing golf. And maga will eat it up.
aflyingsquanch on
This fucking guy.
Top_Case_6458 on
I don’t even understand the claim. Even if he had wrote about him a year before Sep 11, that doesn’t make him special. Osama declared a holy war on the US in 1996 and blew up embassies in 1998. And he had connections to the first WTC bombing in 1993. So lots of people were writing about Osama. This is craziness!
After_Flan_2663 on
I hope all the world leaders are embarrassed over this meat head.
Purify5 on
Osama bin Laden bombed the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. He was put on the FBI’s most wanted list in 1999.
I don’t understand what exactly Trump is claiming.
Internal_Swing_2743 on
Remember, this is the guy who bragged about having the tallest building in Manhattan the day the Twin Towers fell.
Mobile_Equal_3636 on
25th ammendment
RudeReddit79 on
Useless
DharmaKarmaBrahma on
Was he in the Epstein files?
HotApplication3797 on
Ha!
This dude has absolutely lost it.
i0m00n on
It’s not bizarre. Trump is mentally unfit. It’s very on brand for a mentally unstable person to claim things that aren’t real or aaccurate. This is nothing however, because Republicans would Weekend At Bernie’s style prop him up even if he were dead.
Pixburghman on
When will Trump take credit for Creating Little Boy and Fat Man, Flying the Bombers and dropping the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
milesercat on
“Yeah, then I led Seal Team Six in that mission to take down Bin Laden, yeah that’s the ticket. . . and then on the way back home I invented Tic Tock, yeah. . . and then. . .”
(In Jon Lovitz’s voice if course)
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Bah, as per the ‘98 interview with ABC’s John Miller, the reason that Bin Laden kept escalating to the *USS Cole* and then “beyond” is because no one in the U.S. took him seriously prior.
And Trump as a person who takes *very little* seriously, I very much doubt would be the lone voice of dissent…
I’m surprised he didn’t photoshop himself into the war room when they captured and killed bin Laden.
cheechahumma on
Release the mother fucking Epstein Files!
haveyoutriedit on
So this is what it is like to be ruled by a mad king.
DawnOfWe on
America is getting destroyed because this pathetic vile child raping fascist fuck is still jealous of Obama.
goforpoppapalpatine on
Syphilis rotted brain of his
Scapenator1 on
How can we take a country serious or look up to, if this man is the product of a nation
Little_Buffalo on
Vermin, Trump and his ilk are vermin.
verone3784 on
There are a significant number of authors who wrote about Bin Laden pre-September 11th – Robert A. Pape, Lawrence Wright, Peter Bergen, Andy McNab, for instance. He was also interviewed for **an hour** in 1998 by John Miller from ABC.
He had links to the 1993 WTC bombing, the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, a hoten bombing in Aden in 1992. He declared a fatwā against the west, including the US in August 1996 literally titled “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places”
He was on the FBI, CIA and NSA’s radar long before Tangerine Shitler even knew his name, and was also being watched by GCHQ and MI6 in the UK too.
Trump is just full-scale deranged at this point, and is completely losing his shit.
He genuinely needs to be removed from office before he starts getting paranoid due to dementia, and starts messing around with the Football during one of his late night social media rants.
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what´s next ? Taking credit for the end of Vietnam war or WW2 ?
shadowdra126 on
If that was true then why didn’t Trump stop 9/11
He just let it happen? Shameful
Soft-Skirt on
Trump bizarrely not in jail for treason.
value_meal_papi on
Theres this harambe theory going around saying that’s the moment when we switch into this weird timeline/ reality where trump won the election the first time and everything weird since
That’s also the year where the large hadron Collider (particle accelerator) had a terrible malfunction in April of 2016, Harambe died a month after and Trump somehow won 6 months later 🤯
Now he gets to do things that would have had any other president thrown in jail immediately with no repercussions while Saying the most outlandish ishh ever
Gilshem on
Anyone remotely aware of the political situation in the US on 9/11 immediately thought of Bin Laden. I was a 23 year old Canadian living in Toronto and I knew it was Bin Laden.
Nooooope on
You mean the terrorist who was already a household name even before 9/11? Cool. Thanks for the tip dude
Trick-Set-1165 on
In the same, rambling speech, Trump also claimed he specifically warned Pete Hegseth about bin Laden one year before 9/11.
Pete was a 20-year-old Princeton student in 2000.
Kinganad on
“He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.”
DT-Sodium on
Sure grand-pa, sure. You also solved WWI. Have you taken your medication?
Caffeinist on
To be fair, bin Laden did declare war against the United States in 1996. Also, he was involved in the Battle of Jaji and allegedly involved in the 1988 Gilgit massacre.
So, uh, yeah. One year ahead of 9/11 seems like Trump being a bit late to the party.
Same fucking deal as with Ukraine. The war really started when Russia rolled in and annexed Crimea in 2014. Trump sat a full freaking term doing exactly jack shit about it.
The problem with Trump is that even him bragging highlights how stupid he is. It’s anti-intellectualism at it’s finest.
Molson2871 on
Weird, because I remember first reading about him following the 1993 WTC bombing
nativeridge_ on
Nothing bizarre about this your President is cooked
wsrs25 on
This happened before he invented the lightbulb, but after he discovered penicillin.
Angry gramps has reached the story telling stage of dementia. Accusing his neighbors, friends and family of scheming to “steal my money” is next.
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America’s Pedophile Great-Grandpa President is delusional.
The whole maga world is a made up world full of movie type hero grift.
Old dementia Donnie ramblin’ on again. God he is pathetic begging people to pay attention to him.
Take note America, this is what happens when you don’t hug your kids enough.
The Daily Beast is kind of underselling this. He also said he warned Pete Hegseth about Osama bin Laden a year before 9/11.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1974938709142233596
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President Donald Trump isn’t done patting himself on the back for supposedly flagging a notorious terrorist ahead of the devastating 9/11 attack.
In a meandering speech to commemorate the Navy’s 250th birthday on Sunday, Trump rehashed his years-old claim that he was ahead of the curve when it came to Osama bin Laden, the infamous founder of terrorist group al-Qaeda.
“Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago [sic] before he blew up the World Trade Center, and I said, ‘You got to watch Osama bin Laden,’” Trump said, citing his own book, “whatever the hell the title, I can’t tell you.”
“There’s a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden, and I didn’t like it, and you got to take care of him. They didn’t do it. A year later, he blew up the World Trade Center so,” the president went on. “Got to take a little credit, because nobody else is going to give it to me. You know the old story: They don’t give you credit, just take it yourself.”
Trump has made this claim several times since the publication of his book, The America We Deserve, in 2000. But the president oversold what he actually said about bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan in 2011.
Though Trump does mention bin Laden in his book, he didn’t say that the militant leader should have been killed.
“One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin Laden is public enemy Number One, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan,” Trump wrote in his book. “He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”
In 2021, Trump dismissed bin Laden as only having “one hit” while touting the terrorists killed during his first administration.
“We took out the founder of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, and then of course Soleimani,” Trump said in an interview at the time, adding that Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was “bigger by many, many times” than bin Laden.
“Osama bin Laden had one hit, and it was a bad one, in New York City, the World Trade Center. But these other two guys were monsters. They were monsters,” he said.
>“There’s a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden, and I didn’t like it, and you got to take care of him. They didn’t do it. A year later, he blew up the World Trade Center so,” the president went on. “Got to take a little credit, because nobody else is going to give it to me. You know the old story: They don’t give you credit, just take it yourself.”
I wonder how close this is to what his ghostwriter actually wrote…
>“One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin Laden is public enemy Number One, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan,” Trump wrote in his book. “He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”
Yup.
That’s because his book was ghostwritten, and he has never actually read the book he claims to have written. He doesn’t actually know what it says, he just makes shit up.
Donny took out Lee Harvey Oswald too didn’t he? John Wilkes Booth?
If he would have been there it would have never happened. Its all Sleepy Joes fault.
What a try hard
He’s no different than North Korea. Soon we will hear how he has 18 holes in one playing golf. And maga will eat it up.
This fucking guy.
I don’t even understand the claim. Even if he had wrote about him a year before Sep 11, that doesn’t make him special. Osama declared a holy war on the US in 1996 and blew up embassies in 1998. And he had connections to the first WTC bombing in 1993. So lots of people were writing about Osama. This is craziness!
I hope all the world leaders are embarrassed over this meat head.
Osama bin Laden bombed the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. He was put on the FBI’s most wanted list in 1999.
I don’t understand what exactly Trump is claiming.
Remember, this is the guy who bragged about having the tallest building in Manhattan the day the Twin Towers fell.
25th ammendment
Useless
Was he in the Epstein files?
Ha!
This dude has absolutely lost it.
It’s not bizarre. Trump is mentally unfit. It’s very on brand for a mentally unstable person to claim things that aren’t real or aaccurate. This is nothing however, because Republicans would Weekend At Bernie’s style prop him up even if he were dead.
When will Trump take credit for Creating Little Boy and Fat Man, Flying the Bombers and dropping the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
“Yeah, then I led Seal Team Six in that mission to take down Bin Laden, yeah that’s the ticket. . . and then on the way back home I invented Tic Tock, yeah. . . and then. . .”
(In Jon Lovitz’s voice if course)
Bah, as per the ‘98 interview with ABC’s John Miller, the reason that Bin Laden kept escalating to the *USS Cole* and then “beyond” is because no one in the U.S. took him seriously prior.
And Trump as a person who takes *very little* seriously, I very much doubt would be the lone voice of dissent…
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html
I’m surprised he didn’t photoshop himself into the war room when they captured and killed bin Laden.
Release the mother fucking Epstein Files!
So this is what it is like to be ruled by a mad king.
America is getting destroyed because this pathetic vile child raping fascist fuck is still jealous of Obama.
Syphilis rotted brain of his
How can we take a country serious or look up to, if this man is the product of a nation
Vermin, Trump and his ilk are vermin.
There are a significant number of authors who wrote about Bin Laden pre-September 11th – Robert A. Pape, Lawrence Wright, Peter Bergen, Andy McNab, for instance. He was also interviewed for **an hour** in 1998 by John Miller from ABC.
He had links to the 1993 WTC bombing, the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, a hoten bombing in Aden in 1992. He declared a fatwā against the west, including the US in August 1996 literally titled “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places”
He was on the FBI, CIA and NSA’s radar long before Tangerine Shitler even knew his name, and was also being watched by GCHQ and MI6 in the UK too.
Trump is just full-scale deranged at this point, and is completely losing his shit.
He genuinely needs to be removed from office before he starts getting paranoid due to dementia, and starts messing around with the Football during one of his late night social media rants.
what´s next ? Taking credit for the end of Vietnam war or WW2 ?
If that was true then why didn’t Trump stop 9/11
He just let it happen? Shameful
Trump bizarrely not in jail for treason.
Theres this harambe theory going around saying that’s the moment when we switch into this weird timeline/ reality where trump won the election the first time and everything weird since
That’s also the year where the large hadron Collider (particle accelerator) had a terrible malfunction in April of 2016, Harambe died a month after and Trump somehow won 6 months later 🤯
Now he gets to do things that would have had any other president thrown in jail immediately with no repercussions while Saying the most outlandish ishh ever
Anyone remotely aware of the political situation in the US on 9/11 immediately thought of Bin Laden. I was a 23 year old Canadian living in Toronto and I knew it was Bin Laden.
You mean the terrorist who was already a household name even before 9/11? Cool. Thanks for the tip dude
In the same, rambling speech, Trump also claimed he specifically warned Pete Hegseth about bin Laden one year before 9/11.
Pete was a 20-year-old Princeton student in 2000.
“He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.”
Sure grand-pa, sure. You also solved WWI. Have you taken your medication?
To be fair, bin Laden did declare war against the United States in 1996. Also, he was involved in the Battle of Jaji and allegedly involved in the 1988 Gilgit massacre.
So, uh, yeah. One year ahead of 9/11 seems like Trump being a bit late to the party.
Same fucking deal as with Ukraine. The war really started when Russia rolled in and annexed Crimea in 2014. Trump sat a full freaking term doing exactly jack shit about it.
The problem with Trump is that even him bragging highlights how stupid he is. It’s anti-intellectualism at it’s finest.
Weird, because I remember first reading about him following the 1993 WTC bombing
Nothing bizarre about this your President is cooked
This happened before he invented the lightbulb, but after he discovered penicillin.
Angry gramps has reached the story telling stage of dementia. Accusing his neighbors, friends and family of scheming to “steal my money” is next.