Trump makes surprise trip to Afghanistan

November 29, 2019 08:24

United States President Donald Trump made his first trip to Afghanistan when he made a surprise visit to an air base near Kabul to thank American troops serving in the war zone and joined 500 of them in having turkey on the occasion of Thanksgiving.

After having dinner with his troops during the unannounced visit on Thursday, Trump had a hastily-arranged bilateral meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

Kept a highly-guarded secret till the time he left Afghanistan, Trump touched down at the Bagram Air Field outside Kabul on a pitch-dark tarmac after a 13-hour flight abroad Air Force One.

The president reached just in time to serve troops Thanksgiving dinner at the air field's dining facility.

He was greeted at the airfield by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley.

A small pool of reporters travelling with him were only allowed to shoot Trump's arrival from inside a van.

Wearing a navy blue suit and a striped red tie, the president dished out turkey to roughly two dozen troops at a dining facility decorated with red, orange, and yellow Thanksgiving banners and tablecloths.

Trump wished them a Happy Thanksgiving. He then walked into a dining hall full of about 500 troops.

"I'll be talking to you later, but right now I want to have some turkey." he said. "I'm going to join you for a little lunch. We're also going to shake hands with some of the folks."

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