Conan is a very good boy and deserves all the doggy cookies in the world after the special operations military working dog, who was named after Conan O’Brien due to his shaggy hair, took part in the Barisha raid in Syria, which resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then-leader of ISIS. But Donald Trump isn’t pleased that Conan, a military dog that doesn’t have bone spurs, was heaped with praise after chasing Bagdadi down a path that resulted in his death.
The accolades bestowed upon the hero dog was apparently too much for Donald Trump, so he complained, saying Conan “got more credit” than he did, in a newly surfaced recording, according to The Independent.
Trump was talking to Republican donors at his gaudy Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, on Friday evening, and the recording details the “president” giving details of the targeted killing of Iran’s top military leader, Qassem Soleimani.
In the recording, Trump alleged that Soleimani had been “saying bad things about our country.”
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“How much of this shit do we have to listen to?” Trump asked. “How much are we going to listen to?”
Although Trump claimed the attacks had not injured any American soldiers, that was not true — the Pentagon admitted on Friday that 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following the strike. Trump downplayed the head injuries the soldiers endured as “headaches,” adding that it was”not serious.”
At Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Trump also repeated his fact-free claim that the ISIS leader had died “screaming” even though there’s no evidence to back that assertion up. Trump then said the “press wanted to give the dog much more credit than they gave me” for the killing of Baghdadi.
“It’s true. The dog got more credit than I did,” he said. “The dog Conan became very famous.”
CNN’s @Kevinliptakcnn obtained audio of Trump speaking at a high-dollar fundraiser on Jan. 17. Here’s the transcript of Trump’s account of how the Baghdadi raid came to be and how it unfolded. pic.twitter.com/SkNRvkhd9M
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 24, 2020
Let’s look back at a couple of Trump’s old tweets that didn’t age very well.
Why don’t we ask the Navy SEALs who killed Bin Laden? They don’t seem to be happy with Obama claiming credit. All he did is say O.K.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2012
Stop congratulating Obama for killing Bin Laden. The Navy Seals killed Bin Laden. #debate
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2012
Trump wants to appear to be the big man in the room, but he’s just an old dude, who, if he was your crazy uncle, you would have called the psych ward to pick him up ASAP because he’s a danger to himself and others.
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