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Trump lauds US military for firing ‘mother of all bombs’ in Afghanistan

President Donald Trump has praised America’s “incredible military” for dropping the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal on an area of eastern Afghanistan.

“We have [an] incredible military. We are very proud of them and this was another very, very successful mission,” Trump told reporters after meeting with first responders at the White House on Thursday.

When asked if he personally ordered the use of the powerful bomb on a tunnel complex allegedly used by Daesh (ISIL), Trump said, “Everybody knows exactly what happened and what I do is I authorize my military.”

“We have the greatest military in the world and they’ve done their job as usual. So, we have given them total authorization. And that’s what they’re doing,” he added.

The Republican president also grabbed the opportunity to criticize his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama’s policy on Daesh in Afghanistan.

“If you look at what’s happened over the last eight weeks and compare that to what’s really happened over the last eight years, you’ll see there is a tremendous difference,” he claimed.

Earlier on Thursday, a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), also known as the “mother of all bombs,” was dropped on tunnels in Nangarhar province by an MC-130 aircraft, operated by US Air Force Special Operations Command, according to the Pentagon.

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