"Trump bizarrely says Osama bin Laden wasn't a very big deal: 'He only had one hit!'"

[tblue37]

Trump bizarrely says Osama bin Laden wasn't a very big deal: 'He only had one hit!'

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Speaking to Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, Trump explained that the terrorists he killed were much bigger, implying that he was a stronger president than former President Barack Obama, who gave the order to kill Osama bin Laden.

"And they respected us, and they respected me," said Trump of the Taliban. "But they respected us, and don't think that the Taliban wasn't watching, because ISIS is tougher than the Taliban and nastier than the Taliban. And ISIS was watching, and they were — they didn't exist anymore. And we took out the founder of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, and then of course Soleimani. Now just so you understand, Soleimani is bigger by many, many times than Osama bin Laden. The founder of ISIS is a bigger, by many, many times, al-Baghdadi than Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden had one hit, and it was a bad one, in New York City, the World Trade Center."

Trump went on to say that the two terrorists he took out were "monsters" and complained that the media didn't give him the credit like they gave Obama for taking out bin Laden.

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"Trying to imagine the reaction if [Joe] Biden said anything approaching this during a week in which US troops were killed at the end of a war that began after 9/11," commented New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Of course, Trump would downplay and dismiss the assassination of OBL.

Obama executed the plan just hours after royally roasting Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Good point!

The guy can barely remember anything - but he sure manages to hang on to resentments. It seems to be his raison d'être.

[Submariner]

7. He likes to hurt others and feed on the pain he inflicts

It makes him feel good.

"O'Donnell also explained that one of Trump's tactics was to plant fake stories about people in order to hurt them. "He tried to plant stories about an affair that wasn't happening, because he knows at that point that even the story, even if it's not true, you have to go back to your family and explain what's going on," he said, adding that the president reveled in knowing that he orchestrated that painful conversation."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-sociopathic-and-likes-hurt-people-says-ex-trump-casino-executive-1370656

A sick twisted low life.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

9. I'm reminded of a story that LBJ told.

A Texas politician told his campaign manager to plant a story that his opponent fucked pigs. The campaign manager said, "We both know that's not true!" The pol replied, "Yeah. But I want to hear him deny it."

[Rhiannon12866]

20. He's always been a bully according to Mary Trump's book

When he was a kid, he tortured his younger brother, Robert, unmercifully - the brother who died last year. A favorite family story is the time he was being so awful to his younger brother at the dinner table - and no one was doing anything to stop him - that his elder brother, Freddie, finally dumped the bowl of mashed potatoes on Donald's head. Someone told that story at a family gathering in the White House and TFG was infuriated by it even years later. He enjoys dishing it out, but he definitely can't take it.

[Mike Nelson]

2. Well...

... guess he thinks if Bing Crosby had only "White Christmas" he would be an inconsequential one-hit-wonder. I wish Hugh R. Hewitt one hit - in the backside with a foot!

[Lonestarblue]

6. I never bother reading his opinions in the Washington Post.

I don’t really understand why they still publish his pieces. When he was on MSNBC (ugh), he was smarmy and rattled off nonsense. That is not presenting a valid counterpoint—it’s presenting nuttery.

[PatSeg]

17. I could never understand why MSNBC

kept him on for so long. Whenever I'd see him, I'd grab the remote.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Ya. It was only 3,600. Trump had 600,000. He won

by a mile.

[vanlassie]

5. 600,000 And Counting...

[uponit7771]

14. +1, Media Response: " ... trump who ?!... "

[Botany]

8. New York please indict that blithering asshole today for all his financial and tax scams or ...

... Georgia for trying to get the Sec. of State to change the vote in the 2020 election, or the
DoJ for the 1/6/21 attempt to violently overthrow our democracy. Outside of him being put
on trial and then sent to prison I never want to hear from him again.

BTW TFG's murder of Soleimani resulted in the Iranian rocket attack on our troops in Iraq
which resulted in something like 200 + cases of TBI (traumatic brain injury) which can lead to
a lifetime of disabilities.

[ShazzieB]

27. And remember how he made fun if the TBI's?

I think he called them "headaches" and acted like they were nothing. It makes my blood boil to remember it.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

10. On those terms, John Wilkes Booth was no big deal. n/t

[Mr. Ected]

11. Osama bin Laden had 22 children

Trump only managed 4.

Trump's sperm were weaker than OBL's.

[ShazzieB]

28. Trump has 5 kids, not 4.

Still weaker than Bin Kaden, though.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Whine along with Trump as he trashes others

same ol', same ol' ... the River of Tears just keeps rolling along

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Trump has a thing for dictators and authoritarians.

[gordianot]

15. Trump does have one superb talent and value.

Want to be able to determine a lie? Listen to Donald Trump.

[PatSeg]

16. Trump speaks fluent Word Salad

That was like the incomprehensible ramblings of a lunatic. And did he say that Isis "didn't exist anymore"? Trying to decipher what he says makes my brain hurt. Apparently, he speaks a language that only other idiots understand.

[milestogo]

18. Maybe he studied Sarah Palin

[PatSeg]

24. It is like a different species entirely

I'll bet Sarah understood that perfectly.

[ShazzieB]

29. It's getting worse all the time, too.

Look how many time he repeated himself in that quote. It's like he's gradually having a harder and harder time putting together a coherent sentence, let alone a series of sentences!

[PatSeg]

31. Yes, he often repeats himself to fill in the blank spaces, LOTS of blank spaces

It reminds me of a child who doesn't want to lose your attention, but really doesn't know what he's talking about and has nothing much to say. As a result, he uses a lot of repetition to monopolize the limelight and appear knowledgeable. Trump's knowledge is as limited as his vocabulary, so he has to keep recycling the same words and phrases over and over again. Sadly, there wasn't really any actual substance there to begin with, just a bunch of random words.

[sarcasmo]

19. Trump likes Bid Laden. After 9/11 Trump said, I now have the tallest building in the city.

[JHB]

21. Why "bizarre"? The Bush administration thought the same.

Before 9/11 they dismissed him as "a guy in a tent" and jeered at Clinton for having made it a priority to pursue this "nobody."

And after 9/11, they waved him around for "stop thinking and go along with what we want" purposes but put pursing him on the back burner, since that wasn't on their neocon pet projects list.

[IronLionZion]

22. Trump was born in Kenya

His birth certificate from Queens New York is as fake as COVID.

[DeeNice]

23. I was hoping this was Borowitz nt

[spanone]

25. Anything to denigrate President Obama.

If tfg had taken out OBL he would have been the worst terrorist since atilla the hun, no even worse, a terrorist like nobody had seen the likes of before...you know
the drivel...

[ShazzieB]

30. "Like nobody has ever seen"

One of his favorite phrases.

[kentuck]

26. So did John Wilkes Boothe.

That is all he needed.