Inside Trump's 3.5-hour top-secret Thanksgiving trip to visit US troops in Afghanistan

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In a top-secret trip, President Donald Trump visited Afghanistan to celebrate Thanksgiving with US troops. Photos show what it was like.

President Donald Trump ate turkey with US troops in Afghanistan for Thanksgiving.

Trump visited Afghanistan on Thursday for the first time. For security purposes, it was a top-secret trip that involved decoy planes, a false announcement from the White House about his whereabouts, and someone continuing to tweet from his personal Twitter account while he was en route to avoid raising suspicions.

He was in Afghanistan for three and a half hours. He made a speech to 1,500 US troops, served and ate turkey with soldiers, posed for photos, and met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.On Wednesday morning, November 27, President Donald Trump played a round of golf at Mar-a-Lago, the private resort he owns in Florida. The White House announced he would be spending the night in Florida, too, but at 7 p.m., he secretly boarded Air Force One.

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