President Trump arrives in Afghanistan for surprise Thanksgiving visit with troops

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President Trump arrives in Afghanistan for surprise Thanksgiving visit with troops

By Brooke Singman, Jenny Buchholz | Fox News November 28, 2019:

President Trump on Thursday took a surprise trip to Afghanistan to visit U.S. military troops stationed at Bagram Air Field on Thanksgiving.

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The trip was kept a secret for security purposes.

Trump, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wy., traveled with the president on a 13-hour overnight trip on Air Force One from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to Afghanistan on Wednesday.

The president arrived in Afghanistan just in time to serve troops Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Standing alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, he dished out turkey to roughly two dozen troops at a dining facility decorated with red, orange and yellow Thanksgiving banners and tablecloths. Mulvaney, Barrasso, and O’Brien were also behind the counter.

“There’s nowhere I’d rather spend Thanksgiving than with the toughest, fiercest warriors,” Trump said. “I’m here to say Happy Thanksgiving and thank you very much. As president of the United States, I have no higher honor than serving as commander-in-chief.”

He added: “We will continue to work tirelessly for the day when all of you can go home to your families, and that day is coming very soon.”

The president was originally slated to spend Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Details of how he was able to sneak out of the resort property are still unclear. He did, though, fly out of an undisclosed airport on Wednesday evening.

Fox News has learned that security precautions for the trip were taken to the extreme, with the cellular devices, including those of senior White House officials on the flight, taken before boarding the plane.

The president greeted the crew and even stayed in the cockpit for takeoff.

On the flight to Afghanistan, Grisham told the small group of press that the purpose of the trip is “truly about Thanksgiving and supporting the troops.”

“It’s a dangerous area and he wants to support the troops,” Grisham said. “He and Mrs. Trump recognize that there is a lot of people who are away from their families during the holidays and we thought it would be a nice surprise.”

Grisham also said that while the trip has been in the works for weeks, only a very tight circle of White House officials knew about it. To keep suspicions at bay, Grisham says the White House scheduled tweets to be sent from the President’s twitter account during the many hours that he did not have access to the internet.

Thursday’s surprise trip is the president’s first to Afghanistan and his second to a conflict zone. Last year, he traveled to Iraq to visit U.S. troops on the day after Christmas.

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FormerlyNicab
FormerlyNicab
4 years ago

Trump 2020! God bless Donald J. Trump.

Maddog
Maddog
4 years ago
Reply to  FormerlyNicab

MAGA! Couldn’t be more proud of OUR president!! !

Deplorable Me
Deplorable Me
4 years ago
Reply to  FormerlyNicab

Trump 2024!!

Vietnam Vet
Vietnam Vet
4 years ago

Thank you, Mr. President for being our respected CIC, and restoring dignity to the WH again, and to the troops.

Trevor Fortune
Trevor Fortune
4 years ago

Damn, I wish he had taken a plastic turkey along with him and destroyed a bunch more lefty heads. That would have been so damn funny it would have carried me through to the new year.

movingwaters
movingwaters
4 years ago

In contrast I am reminded that it seems like every time an American got tortured or beheaded Obama would be seen smiling and happy in his golf cart on the course the next day. I am go grateful to God that Trump is, despite all the opposition, revealing and undoing Obama’s wicked legacy.

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

Good job, Mister President! Bravo!

martin potashner
martin potashner
4 years ago

really great mainstream media was in Florida lol

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