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Trump and the troops

29 December 2019

3:34 AM

29 December 2019

3:34 AM

This article is in The Spectator’s January 2020 US edition. Subscribe here.

Thanksgiving Day, the most American of holidays, found President Trump performing one of the nation’s few remaining civic rites: supporting the troops. When the President secretly flew to Afghanistan to feed and thank servicemen at Bagram Air Base, he got a cheering hangar full of airmen in return.

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