At long last, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania paid a visit to U.S. troops stationed overseas, after a secret overnight flight to Iraq. This visit, held at the…
At long last, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania paid a visit to U.S. troops stationed overseas, after a secret overnight flight to Iraq.
This visit, held at the Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, should have been a moment of relative triumph and personal growth for the president, who had promised to make such a trip and who has attracted criticism for not having done so at a time in his presidency at which nearly all of his post-World War II predecessors, including Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, had.
But unfortunately, Trump managed to make what should have been a low-key and uncontroversial affair into an embarrassing disaster.
View the complete December 27 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet.org website here.