Trump repeats falsehoods claiming he predicted 9/11 and demanded Bin Laden's death

Issued on: 07/04/2026 
05:34 min

During a press conference on Monday about the war in Iran, US President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about Washington’s progress in the conflict, his own past foreign policy, and that his book released in 2000 predicted 9/11.

After correctly mentioning three US fighter planes had been mistakenly shot down by Kuwait at the start of the war, Trump immediately claimed the “only planes” Washington had lost were as a result of “friendly fire”. Considering the very objective of this press conference was the rescue of two air personnel whose planes had been shot down by Iran, it was a direct contradiction to the focus of his briefing.

After discussing his first term actions in Iran, and the killing of General Qassem Soleimani, Trump repeated a long-debunked claim that he had not only predicted the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the book he had released a year earlier, but that he pushed for the killing of Osama bin Laden.

His book shows no evidence that suppors either claim. In fact, bin Laden is only mentioned once in passing.

He also exaggerated or repeated falsehoods about his own foreign policy successes: including that he had "ended eight wars."

Vedika Bahl fact-checks Trump’s assertions in Truth or Fake.

BY: Vedika BAHL

VIDEO BY: Vedika BAHL