Defending his government move of stopping hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Pakistan, Trump told Fox News: "And we give Pakistan $1.3 billion a year . ... [bin Laden] lived in Pakistan, we’re supporting Pakistan, we’re giving them $1.3 billion a year -- which we don’t give them anymore, by the way. I ended it because they don’t do anything for us, they don’t do a damn thing for us."

He also referred to Laden and his former compound in Abbottabad, and told the news channel: "You know, living – think of this – living in Pakistan, beautifully in Pakistan in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I don’t know, I’ve seen nicer."

"But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pakistan knew he was there," he added. 

The compound in the Pakistani city was demolished shortly after United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group forces, in a daring late-night helicopter raid, killed the terrorist.

Laden was killed in 2011.

In September, the US military had declared that it will cancel the $300m (£230m) aid to the South Asian nation as the latter has failed to take action against militant groups operating from its soil.