Donald Trump says Taliban have been fighting for 1000 years, gets trolled

World leaders have criticised US President Joe Biden for how he dealt with the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. The crisis escalated with fall of the government and Taliban taking over Kabul. Joining the long list of leaders in US former president Donald Trump who strongly condemned Biden.

Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, discussed the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and how he had dealt with the Afghan government during his term at the office.

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He said “history knows that they are very brutal”, adding “they’ve been fighting for a thousand years.” The small snippet from the interview has gone viral, triggering many jokes online.

He blamed Joe Biden for the Afghanistan crisis and called it “the greatest embarrassment” in the history of the United States.

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He also talked about the deal with Taliban that was actually brokered by his government. He told the host Sean Hannity that he had warned presumed Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in discussions last year that the US will “strike back tenfold if an American was harmed or the militants encroached on unapproved areas.”

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The Taliban means “students” in the Pashto language and they emerged in 1994 around the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.

The former president’s remark left many baffled online but they agreed it wasn’t surprising. Netizens made fun of him and started a meme fest on the social media.

His statement urging people to get vaccinated and wear masks, but only if they wanted to also surprised some.