Trump speaking at the Norfolk Naval Station.

He's brilliant! He knew all about bin Laden. But poor old demented Donny can't get his story straight.

From Tiedrich:

“and history will never forget that it was the Seals who stormed the compound at Osama bin Laden, and put a bullet in his head.”

yes, President Pudding Cup actually said “the compound at Osama bin Laden.” now get ready for one of Donny’s patented Things That Never Happened The Most.™

“and please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center.”

timelines, how do they work? Christ on a corncob, no wonder Donny’s handlers have to work overtime to keep him from appearing in public.

“and I said ‘you gotta to watch Osama bin Laden.’ and the fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true. but I said one year before, to Pete Hegseth, I said one year before, where’s Pete?”

yeah, where is Pete Kegstand, who Donny apparently spoke to in the year 2000, about Osama bin Laden. cool coherent story, grandpa. please continue.

“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, I didn’t like it, and you gotta take care of him. they didn’t do it, and a year later he blew up the World Trade Center. so, you gotta take a little credit, ’cause nobody else is gonna give it to me. you know the old story, they don’t give you credit, just take it yourself.”

the book Donny can’t recall the title of (because he didn’t write it, a ghostwriter did) is The America We Deserve (spoiler alert: no, we don’t, fuck off), and it contains only one brief mention of bin Laden, describing him as ‘a shadowy figure with no fixed address.’

that’s all. no warning, no call to go after him. but in typical Donny fashion, this fairy tale — which he’s been repeating since 2018 — grows ever more outlandish with each recounting. by next week, Donny will be claiming that bin Laden had tears in his eyes as he went ‘sir! sir! no one has ever warned the world about me like you did, sir!’