Trump, 79, Claims He Totally Predicted 9/11 Attacks
Speaking Monday about the war he started with Iran, President Trump said he predicted 9/11 “a long time ago.”
“I knew the strait [of Hormuz]that it would be a weapon, which I predicted a long time ago, I predicted all of this. You were very generous in that I predicted all of this,” he said during a news conference at the Trump-Kennedy Center. “I predicted that Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center, I made that prediction a year before he did it. I said, “You better catch him, he’s a bad guy.” …Exactly a year before, I wrote it in a book. You can even check. About a year before the fall of the World Trade Center. President Clinton actually had an attempt on him, and he didn’t take it.”
Trump made this claim countless times over the years. This is false. In his 2000 book, Trump wrote: “One day we are told that an obscure figure of no fixed address named Osama bin Laden is public enemy number one, and American jet fighters are ravaging his camp in Afghanistan. He escapes under a rock, and a few news cycles later he finds himself facing a new enemy and a new crisis.”
Recognizing bin Laden as a “shadow figure” is a far cry from predicting that he would order hijackers to fly planes into the Twin Towers.
Trump: “I knew the strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this. I predicted that Osama bin Laden would destroy the World Trade Center. I wrote it in a book.” pic.twitter.com/tdllc55VQ4
-Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026
