Prosecutors say bombing suspect taunted Trump

NEW YORK — A Bangladeshi immigrant arrested in a New York subway bombing mocked President Donald Trump on social media while on his way to carry out the botched suicide mission, authorities said as they brought federal charges against him Tuesday.

Akayed Ullah had posted a statement on his Facebook account just before the Monday morning attack, stating: “Trump you failed to protect your nation,” the criminal complaint said.

He also told law enforcement officers at the hospital where he was taken with burn injuries to the body and hands: “I did it for the Islamic State,” according to the complaint.

His rush-hour attack fizzled in a long walkway used by commuters moving between trains in the city’s busiest subway station at Times Square. Three pedestrians complained of harmed hearing and head- aches after the bomb went off.

Ullah, 27, was expected to appear before a magistrate judge, though it was not immediately clear if he was well enough to go to court.

During a search of his Brooklyn apartment, investigators recovered a passport with the words “O America, die in rage” scrawled in it, the complaint says.

He hoped to “terrorize as many people as possible” with a bomb filled with metal screws that he believed would cause maximum damage, the complaint said.

The complaint charged Ullah with providing material support to a terrorist group, use of a weapon of mass destruction and three bomb-related counts.

According to the complaint, Ullah started to become radicalized in 2014 and began researching how to build bombs after he had “viewed pro-ISIS materials online.