The Rock lastly reveals how he tweeted about Bin Laden’s loss of life 45 minutes earlier than President Obama

Again in 2011, Al-Qaeda founder and chief Osama Bin Laden was discovered and killed following a tense and extremely confidential mission by the US.

American Navy SEALs raided a compound close to Islamabad, earlier than capturing him useless, following a ten-year manhunt.

President Barack Obama introduced the information of Bin Laden’s profitable assassination reside on TV shortly after. Nevertheless, many individuals had been very confused when actor and wrestler The Rock hinted on the information on Twitter earlier than the president made the reveal.

Fairly how The Rock, a.ok.a Dwayne Johnson, had the data previous to the president revealing all has by no means been shared till now.

The Moana star shared all about his goof with Hollywood Reporter.

The journalist mentioned that they had a tweet to point out him from Might 2, 2011, and Dwayne joked: “Oh my God, this isn’t good.”

He confessed: “I’ve received a good friend of a good friend who gave me a name. The decision was like, ‘Hey, this factor occurred.’ And I mentioned, ‘Okay, fantastic information.’ I used to be informed on the decision that the president at the moment [Barack Obama] was going to make his speech in 20 minutes or no matter.

“I mentioned, ‘Okay, nice’. So 20 minutes go by, and at in regards to the twenty fifth minute, I tweet this…”

He posted: “Simply received phrase that can shock the world – Land of the free…dwelling of the courageous DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!”

It was then that The Rock realised his error: “Then I get a second name, and the decision is, ‘Yeah, the president didn’t go on but.’ And I went, ‘Oh s**t’.”

Fellow wrestling star additionally introduced the information to the group on the Excessive Guidelines pay-per-view in Tampa, Florida.

Simply received phrase that can shock the world – Land of the free…dwelling of the courageous DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) May 2, 2011

The Rock was additionally requested if he would take into account operating for workplace sooner or later, however dodged the query.

Persons are nonetheless replying to his tweet, all this time later.

One individual wrote: “Tremendous bizarre to me that this doesn’t have like 100,000 rts,” whereas one other agreed: “Man it’s wild that this has <1k retweets. 2011 twitter was bizarre."

“Individuals joke however they ignore the truth that The Rock by some means knew Bin Laden died minutes earlier than the remainder of the nation did,” quizzed one fan.

“Confirmed. The Rock is the deep state. Kidding. Severely although how do you know earlier than nearly everybody else?” joked one other.

“Think about the numbers this is able to’ve accomplished if it occurred now,” wrote one X consumer.

In 2015, somebody requested “Are you able to inform us the way you knew?”… ten years later, they lastly have the reply.