GOP Rep Mike Gallagher Rips ‘Massive Idiots’ Praising Osama bin Laden Letter on TikTok

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., dismissed those behind a TikTok trend of praising Osama bin Laden's post-9/11 "Letter to America" as "massive idiots."

Gallagher, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, reacted to clips of TikTok users actually praising bin Laden's letter during a Thursday Fox News appearance.

"Well, these people are, of course, massive idiots. I just came from watching the footage that the Israeli embassy compiled about the October 7th attack. It is horrific," Gallagher said.

Bin Laden's letter was released after more than 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 terror attack and included the terrorist's justification for the attack. In the letter, he blasts involvement from the West in Middle Eastern affairs and blasted the United States' relationship with Israel.

Gallagher said on Thursday praising bin Laden as "right" amid the Israel-Hamas conflict is "absolutely disgusting." He called for a ban of the China-owned TikTok.

"For someone on TikTok, to somehow suggest that this is America's fault, or that bin Laden, who killed thousands of innocent Americans was right is absolutely disgusting and further evidence that we need to ban TikTok or force a sale before a Chinese-controlled app," Gallagher said, "before the Chinese Communist Party checkmates the free world by controlling the dominant media platform in America that can spread this dangerous, disgusting nonsense."