One of the things that has made Dwayne Johnson as popular as he is is his stellar social media game. When he’s not tweeting about Jumanji or whatever movie he’s working on, he’s on Instagram sharing photos of himself doing random stuff.
But while people may know all about Dwayne Johnson’s behemoth cheat day meals and crazy workouts, his greatest – and most baffling – social media post revolves around Osama bin Laden’s death.
For those who need a refresher, Osama bin Laden masterminded the 9/11 attacks and the U.S. undertook a super-secret mission to hunt him down in 2011, which was ultimately successful.
Details for an operation like this would be kept under lock-and-key, yet a mere nine-ish hours after the mission happened, Dwayne Johnson of all people took to Twitter to spill the beans on bin Laden.
In fact, not only was he the second person on Earth to publicly confirm bin Laden’s death, he did it two hours before Barack Obama’s official presidential address about the mission.
The obvious question here is how a guy like Dwayne Johnson is privy to highly-classified intel like the bin Laden operation and the answer is we don’t know and he won’t say.
Despite Stephen Colbert’s attempts at loosening him up with tequila, Johnson only revealed he has “friends in high and low places,” which brings up the question of how he made those friends in the first place.
Presumably it has something to do with that ridiculous U.S. presidential run idea he keeps tossing out. Maybe he just happens to know a bunch of knowledgeable Navy SEALS whom he met and trained with as preparation for Jumanji or whatever testosterone-filled action film he’s working on.
So is appears that the moral of this story is Dwayne Johnson knows more than we do and is a good source of information regarding super-secret U.S. missions as well as Jumanji-related press spam.
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