Trump Avoids Visiting Troops In Harm’s Way, Talks To Them From His Country Club Instead

Well PO1 Tony Holland I am not surprised that huffingtonpost is sarcastically posting this headline.
President Trump hints at a possible visit to Afghanistan after making a Thanksgiving phone call with an Air Force general Thursday, saying you never know what could happen.

President Donald Trump talks with troops via teleconference from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

His comments come after he pledged over the weekend to visit U.S. troops in a war zone either in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The president said he’s had a very busy schedule over the past two years, but will be visiting a war zone soon.

The U.S. has about 14,000 troops in Afghanistan who are supporting a training and advisory mission, as well as counter-terrorism operations.

“So, we’re winning, your winning and I appreciate very much and General your reputation is an incredible one. Thank you very much for your job and I’ll see you back when you’re back in the United States or maybe I’ll even see you over the there. You never know what’s going to happen.” -President Trump

A White House team is reportedly planning President Trump’s war zone visit, but has not released a date or location."
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I see some pretty stark differences here though between Presidential Administrations. First, there was a LOT more troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq during the Obama administration because Military Genius Obama was given incorrect intelligence assessments by both the CIA and NSC on ISIS in Iraq and nearly lost the country to that opposing force and I might add, did significant damage to Syria where over half the population of Syria became refugees on the move to other destinations. Likewise Afghanistan started to slip as well under Obama and required more troops. So a much larger troop presence in both countries. Second, the current administration has been starved of staff because the Democrats wanted to play political games with slow walking all appointments. This administration easily has probably 30-40% less people in it than the Obama administration partly due to that Democratic Party political manuever. The whole country is suffering from lack of progress on several issues due to this stupidity which is likely to get worse with the next two years. Third, this administration is focused more on domestic policy by virtue of his political campaign than Obama was. Obama was prancing all over the world trying to impress world leaders with his speeches while our Economy was in stagnation mode at home. I think if I were a troop overseas I would rather my family back in the states be in a robust economy vs having to struggle to make ends meet. His list of targeted issues is also a lot more broad than Obamas. Obama had an easy time passing his first infrastructure program even though 95% of the funds really went to transfer payments and soclal program expansion (which didn't help the national debt any because those are not investments). Obama could not pass a second stimulus of any consequence because he was seen as largely wasting the first. Everyone is suffering because of that including our troops overseas. We'll see how Trump does but I can tell you that already Trump is doing far superior in Infrastruture spending with private participation. Already we have three seperate privately run High Speed Rail programs in this country, in the past few weeks Virgin Atlantic Airways via it's VIRGIN TRAINS subsidiary has entered the United States market in a very big way in Florida, California and now Texas. Under Obama, High Speed Rail was to be entirely taxpayer funded and in California we have a $100 Billion Dollar Taxpayer funded system under construction which will probably fall behind schedule significantly and not meet financial targets. High Speed Rail is just one example. We have several Airport Improvement projects funded with private money undergoing the lengthly EIS process, some of which got under way via Obama and some under Trump. Before Trumps Presidency is over we should see projects in New York, Kansas City, and Los Angeles underway. I don't know if it was me I would rather have POTUS focus on the Economy, Trade and hopefully the National Debt than do the worldwide Air Force One tour. The few troops remaining in Iraq and Afghanistan I think would rather have it that way. If it was me and I was stationed overseas, I would rather see an America building for the future than one standing still.