Trump is not going to be happy to hear about this, and that honestly thrills me.

According to a report from Tommy Christopher at Mediaite, former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush were told about the strike on Ayman Al-Zawahiri by the Biden administration before the general public knew…but another former president*, Donald Trump, was not. (Trump will always have an asterisk by his name as far as I am concerned…he wasn’t a true president, fight me.)

At Tuesday’s White House briefing, John Kirby attended alongside Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to answer any questions about the strike on Al-Zawahiri that happened over the prior weekend.

But as pointed out by Mediaite’s Christopher, one question from the Washington Post’s White House Tyler Pager went unanswered: (Transcript courtesy of Mediaite)

MR. PAGER: John, just a quick question. Did the President alert former President Obama or Bush or Trump be- — after the strike, before he informed the public? President Obama did so when the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden. I’m wondering if there’s any communication between the current President and his predecessors in the last (inaudible)?

MR. KIRBY: You know, Tyler, I don’t have — I — I’d have to go back and check. I don’t know if there was outreach to former Commanders-in-Chief after the fact. There was no notifications to anybody before the act — before the strike.

Pager noted how then-President Obama called former President Bush and described the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in detail:

“Bush said he was eating souffles at a Dallas restaurant with his wife, Laura, and two friends when he got word that Obama, his successor as president, was trying to reach him.

“I excused myself and went home to take the call,” Bush said. “Obama simply said, ‘Osama bin Laden is dead.’”

After Obama described in detail the secret U.S. raid on Osama’s compound in Pakistan and the decision he made to go ahead with the mission, Bush said he told Obama: “Good call.”

And according to an exclusive from Mediaite, they can report that similar calls were made by the Biden administration following the Al-Zawahiri strike, to Presidents Obama and Bush — but not to Trump.

A National Security Council spokesperson told Mediaite that “The Biden Administration spoke to Presidents Bush and Obama to notify them about the strike before it was announced publicly.”

And it makes perfect sense. Trump can’t be trusted. Come on, we can all see him hitting Truth Social and saying “Something really big happened tonight, but I can’t tell you what, and it’s not as big as what I did, but it’s still somewhat big”. We all know it. The man cannot be trusted. PERIOD. Trump took classified documents from the White House when he left! The man just can’t be trusted. Plus, he refused to concede the election, and broke the tradition of a peaceful transfer of power. Therefore, he doesn’t deserve the respect that comes along with being a former president.

SAD!