Retired Navy Seal who says he killed Bin Laden calls Trump's military parade 'third world bulls***'

Jessica Durando | USA TODAY

The retired U.S. Navy Seal credited with shooting al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in a 2011 raid called President Trump’s plan for a military parade “third world bulls***”.

“We prepare. We deter. We fight. Stop this conversation,” Robert O’Neill said on Twitter this week.

O’Neill, a Trump supporter, then said in a tweet Friday, “I simply think a parade is a bad idea. And I used locker room talk….”

O’Neill told The Washington Post in an interview in 2014 that he fired the two shots that killed the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks. One current and one former SEAL confirmed O'Neill's story of the raid to the Associated Press.

Trump asked the Pentagon to get the ball rolling on plans for a military "celebration," the White House said Tuesday.

A military parade is third world bullshit. We prepare. We deter. We fight. Stop this conversation. — Robert J. O'Neill (@mchooyah) February 8, 2018

Trump attended a Bastille Day parade with French President Emmanuel Macron on July 14, 2017, in Paris, which included tanks, soldiers in gleaming helmets astride horses and jets flying overhead.

When Trump met with Macron at the United Nation General Assembly two months later, he said it was one of the "greatest parades I've ever seen."

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"We’re going to have to try to top it," Trump told the French president.

"We are actually thinking about Fourth of July, Pennsylvania Avenue, having a really great parade to show our military strength," he said.

The idea of a military parade down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue came to Trump before his visit to France for the Bastille Day parade. He first mentioned the idea in an interview with the Post two days before his inauguration.

According to O'Neill's website, he was part of over 400 combat missions during his military career and received two Silver Stars and four Bronze Stars with Valor. He now serves as a public speaker, security consultant, philanthropist and FOX News contributor.

His New York Times bestseller "The Operator: Firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my Years as a SEAL Team Warrior" tells the story of the bin Laden raid and his deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

O'Neill made headlines in 2016, when prosecutors in Montana dropped a driving under the influence charge against him, CBS reported. Both sides in the case agreed that medication prescribed to treat symptoms related to O’Neill’s military service formed the basis for the DUI charge, The Montana Standard reported.

Contributing: David Jackson