In a speech on Thursday morning, President Joe Biden introduced that the chief of the Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was useless after blowing himself up as U.S. troops closed in on him in Syria.

Greater than two years in the past, President Donald Trump made the same speech in regards to the dying of ISIS's former chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died after detonating a suicide vest whereas being cornered by U.S. troops. However Trump's speech took a distinct tone than Biden's and targeted extra on insulting the previous ISIS chief. It even confronted criticism for being "crass."

Throughout his 2019 speech, Trump mentioned al-Baghdadi died "like a canine."

"He died like a canine, he died like a coward. The world is now a a lot safer place," Trump acknowledged. "He was a sick and wicked man, and now he is gone. Baghdadi was vicious and violent and he died in a vicious and violent manner. He was whimpering and crying and screaming all the way in which."

In his speech on Thursday, Biden condemned and criticized al-Qurayshi, calling him a "horrible terrorist chief," and identified that he was behind the genocide towards Iraq's Yazidi minority in 2014. His rhetoric was far much less heated than Trump's, although.

The president famous that realizing al-Qurayshi had surrounded himself with households, together with kids, officers determined to conduct a particular forces raid, "slightly than concentrating on him with an airstrike."

Biden mentioned that "in a closing act of determined cowardness, with no regard to the lives of his family or others within the constructing, [al-Qurayshi] selected to blow himself up...taking a number of members of his household with him, simply as his predecessor did."

Biden Takes Different Tone Than Trump
President Joe Biden struck a distinct tone than former President Donald Trump did when he delivered a speech in regards to the dying of an ISIS chief in 2019. Above, Biden delivers remarks on the White Home on a U.S. Particular Operations raid concentrating on ISIS chief Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi February 3, 2022, in Washington, D.C.Win McNamee

"Final evening's operation took a significant terrorist chief off the battlefield and it despatched a powerful message to terrorists all over the world: we are going to come after you and discover you," Biden mentioned.

White Home Press Secretary Jen Psaki famous Thursday that the explosion Thursday evening killed not solely al-Qurayshi however a girl and three kids.

In distinction, Al Jazeera reporter Patty Culhane mentioned in 2019 that Trump's "crass" rhetoric would "incite al-Baghdadi's followers." In an interview with TIME, Daniel Benjamin, who served because the coordinator for Counterterrorism on the State Division from 2009 to 2012, known as what Trump mentioned in his speech "beneath us all."

"These persons are legal, they're flawed at what they do, they do not have respect for human life, they need to be dropped at justice," Benjamin mentioned. "What I do not perceive is why we have to get down within the gutter and use this type of language. I do not assume it's American. I believe it's beneath us all."

Newsweek reached out to former President Trump's press workplace for remark.