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On Christmas day, NBC News published a piece by Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner titled, “Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime.”
In the piece, the journalist wrote that while Presidents Obama and Bush both made a habit of visiting troops at Kaneohe Bay and Walter Reed every year of their respective presidencies since 2002, Trump had not visited American troops on December 25, making him “the first president since 2002 who didn’t visit military personnel at Christmastime.”
It was later reported that President Trump had indeed visited American forces in Iraq on December 26. According to the Associated Press: “Trump’s trip was shrouded in secrecy. Air Force One flew overnight from Washington, landing at an airbase west of Baghdad under the cover of darkness Wednesday evening.”