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On 7 March 2017, President Trump used his personal Twitter account to tweet a criticism of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, for supposedly releasing 122 vicious prisoner from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who later returned to the battlefield and engaged in terrorist activities: That message was also shared via the official Twitter account of the President of the United States: President Trump's tweet was posted shortly after the airing of a segment on the Fox & Friends program about a former Gitmo detainee, Yasir al Silmi, who was killed during a 2 March 2017 U.S. raid in Yemen. Fox & Friends, which correctly stated that al Silmi had been released under the administration of President Obama, ended the segment by noting that 122 detainees discharged from Guantanamo Bay had subsequently engaged in terrorist activities. But the Fox & Friends segment did not specify when those prisoners were set free, creating the mistaken impression among many viewers (including, apparently, President Trump) that all 122 of those prisoners had been released during the White House tenure of Barack Obama. According to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 122 detainees released from Guantanamo Bay had afterwards reengage[d] in terrorist or insurgent activities as of 15 July 2016. But of that total, 113 were transferred out of detainment at Guantanamo prior to the January 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama — that is, under the administration of President George W. Bush: As the New York Times noted of this information, President Obama not only released a far smaller number of Guantanamo detainees, but a much smaller percentage of the Guantanamo prisoners transferred during his administration are confirmed or suspected of causing problems:
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