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Jaclyn Diaz

How 3 presidents announced the deaths of terrorist leaders and what it says about them

Barack Obama Donald Trump Joe Biden bin Laden Ayman alZawahiri Terrorist Abu Bakr alBaghdadi Osama bin Laden Jennifer Mercieca Margaret OMara
President Barack Obama delivers a televised statement that Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. President Donald Trump makes a statement announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. President Biden announces on Monday that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool; Alex Wong; Jim Watson/Pool/Getty Images)

The sight of a U.S. president announcing the death of a terrorist leader has been a fixture in American politics over the past 11 years.

The words each president uttered and their mannerisms at the podium reveal a lot about the type of leaders former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump attempted to be and in the case of President Joe Biden, attempt to be.

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