was. we're going to set it in a broader strategic contrast. contrast with the president's remarks yesterday, they were okay, but there were clear moments where he wanted to do a big victory dance, wanted to hot dog it a little bit, amp the rhetor rhetoric, unbecoming of commander in chief who just conducted a very significant counterterrorism raid, he appropriately lavished praise on intelligence and military professionals who conducted the complex operation. but the rest of it was sort of unnecessary. and i think could potentially undermine the ability to get allies in to fight with us againstis whi isis on the resur because of president trump's policies. >> jonathan swan, the president wanted to remind everyone that in his view, baghdadi was bigger than bin laden. to paraphrase, bin laden was only important because he knocked down those buildings. he had to insist on that. he had to insist that this raid was bigger, more consequential, more important.