Unwell' Trump goes on nonsensical rant about Osama bin Laden, Pete Hegseth [View all]

While celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy on Sunday, President Donald Trump went on a confusing rant involving Osama bin Laden and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Trump appeared to confuse dates while claiming he identified bin Laden as a threat before U.S. intelligence.

“Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, ‘You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!’ And the fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true,” Trump said during his speech to sailors in Norfolk, Virginia.

“But I said one year before to Pete Hegseth ... in the book I wrote, whatever the hell the title, I can’t tell you. But I can 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 gotta take care of him. They didn’t do it. A year later he blew up the World Trade Center, so gotta take a little credit because nobody else is gonna give it to me,” the president continued.

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