You could be right, Goblin, or you could be wrong. President Trump may have spoken to the special forces troops after the operation to get their narrative before going on camera with his account. I'm not saying that's what happened but I don't rule it out either. In any case you can rely on Washington Post and New York Times to frame their accounts so as to most negatively reflect on President Trump and his administration. That's what they do.It seems old "Generalissimo BS" (BS for bone spurs or the more smelly stuff) may have been exaggerating
As to the significance of Abu Baker al-Baghdadi's death on ISIS effectiveness, it's too soon to tell. Apparently several inner circle acolytes fell along with 3 of his children. Maybe some of them were key to his propaganda machine, recruitment efforts, funding, and such at an executive level, ISIS having been reduced from a regional force to isolated enclaves by the Trump administration, with help from the Kurds and Iraqi forces.
I would think the die-hard ISIS cultist's morale would be quite low today. At the same time I'm getting the sense that the difficult extrication of US forces from the squeeze of Turk, Russian, Syrian, Kurd, Iraqi and Iranian impulses might prove to have been quite wise. Why expose American soldiers to that disaster in the making?
Looking back, the US allowing Iran and Iraq to fight it out in the 80's was a masterstroke, pitting enemies vs. enemies, supporting Iraq, the lesser enemy vs. Iran, the greater enemy. Perhaps the current scenario is a sort of redux. Going back to that era, supporting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union played a not insignificant role in the collapse of the USSR, though subsequent events proved costly. At the same time, Saudi Arabia was an enthusiastic supporter of the Afghans, and Saudi Arabia was critical to the US energy supply. But the Cold War was ultimately won, and President Trump has implemented US energy independence.
The politics of this and everything else is painted by pundits on all sides. I tend to focus on results.