Trump visits the troops in Iraq and Germany, media hardest hit

Steve Berman:

While the media was gleefully chastising President Trump for sitting at the White House on Christmas day, while other presidents have made a point of visiting wounded soldiers around Washington, the president was making other plans.

NBC was positively joyful on Christmas to publish this story (which they later had to amend):

Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime.

"Based on a check of NBC logs, President Barack Obama visited troops at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in Kaneohe Bay, every Christmas he was in office, from 2009 to 2016." Of course he did. The media worships Obama, even when he vacationed in Hawaii, disrupting weddings, clearing golf courses, and generally making life on the islands a pain in the backside by his presence there.

Just after midnight, Trump left Washington on Air Force One, with a disguised callsign and a faked identifier code, headed to share the love in Iraq. Some aircraft spotters in the U.K. caught on, but not in time to spoil the surprise.
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And Trump arrived in Iraq to a love fest, letting everyone know we're not going anywhere (from Iraq at least).

"I made it clear from the beginning that our mission in Syria was to strip ISIS of its military strongholds," said Trump, who wore an olive green bomber style jacket as he was welcomed by chants of "USA! USA!" and speakers blaring Lee Greenwood's song, "God Bless the USA."

"We'll be watching ISIS very closely," said Trump, who was joined by first lady Melania Trump, but no members of his Cabinet or lawmakers. "We'll be watching them very, very closely, the remnants of ISIS"

As he hobnobbed with the troops 10,000 miles away, taking selfies and showing off First Lady Melania, the Trump-hating media over here, was not satisfied. They're never satisfied with this president.
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On the way back to the US Trump visited with troops in Germany.  It was clear that the troops were excited to see him in both countries. 

The media really has egg on its face for its reports critical of Trump not meeting with troops over Christmas.  Trips like this one require weeks of planning and security is obviously tight especially in a war zone. It should be noted that it is even rarer for the First Lady to go on such trips.