President Donald Trump discusses current military operations with Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command Commander, and Gen. Raymond A. "Tony" Thomas, U.S. Special Operations Command Commander at MacDill, AFB, FL, Feb. 6, 2017. (DoD photo by D. Myles Cullen/Released)
Business Insider: Trump talks tough about the military, but he hasn't visited a war zone where US troops are fighting — unlike his predecessors
* President Donald Trump repeatedly portrays himself as a gung-ho supporter of the US military, but a year and a half into his tenure the president has yet to visit American troops in a war-zone.
* The vast majority of Trump's commander-in-chief predecessors dating all the way back to World War II visited troops in war zones, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
* Both Bush and Obama met with US troops in combat zones soon into their first terms.
President Donald Trump repeatedly portrays himself as a gung-ho supporter of the US military, but over a year and a half into his tenure the president has yet to visit American troops in a war zone.
Since Trump took office, American troops have been killed everywhere from Somalia and Niger to Yemen and Iraq. In 2018 alone, five US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan.
But Trump has yet to visit Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria, among other places where US troops are putting their lives on the line to execute his orders.
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WNU Editor: As Commander in Chief it is now expected for a President to visit a warzone not only for the optics of morale, but also to send a message to the American public and to our allies (and foes) abroad on the U.S. commitment to these conflicts. But this is an unconventional President. And as long as there is no public outcry for him to go, I expect him to be more focused on his domestic and trade agenda than on conflicts in places like Afghanistan. Personally .... I think this is a mistake.
Hat tip to Fred for the above story.
