Trump's claim of sending Taliban's Abdul a photo of his house sparks meme frenzy after Harris debate; here's why

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Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump's claim that he had sent a Taliban leader named 'Abdul' a photo of his own house in 2021 during the much-anticipated debate with Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Tuesday has sparked a meme frenzy on the internet.

Recalling his role as the President in negotiating with the Taliban before the 2021 withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Trump stated during the widely televised debate that he had sent a photo presumably as a threat to the Abdul- a Taliban leader- and asked him to instruct his snipers to stop killing the US troops in Afghanistan.

"He is still the head of the Taliban. & I told Abdul don't do it anymore, you do it anymore you're going to have problems. And he said why do you send me a picture of
my house? I said you're going to have to figure that out, Abdul. & for 18 months we had nobody killed," Trump said at the debate.

Notably, Hibatullah Akhundzada has been the head of the Taliban since 2016 and it’s unclear who Trump was referring to, however he was most likely referring to Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the Taliban’s negotiators with the U.S.

The withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan in 2021 has been widely viewed as a failure of the Biden administration, especially after 13 soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing.

Following Trump's suggestion, social media users flooded the internet with memes.

“Now that the dust has settled, can we go back to why Trump sent a guy named Abdul a picture of his house?”, a user wrote on X.

Now that the dust has settled, can we go back to why Trump sent a guy named Abdul a picture of his house?
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Another one said, “I wonder if Trump really gonna send Abdul that picture of his house tho ??”

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Shared a video with the caption, “This what happens when Trump shows #Abdul his house,” a third user mocked Donald Trump.
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