President Donald Trump has expressed Thanksgiving Day gratitude to members of the armed forces serving overseas.
He spoke to the soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq, on the USS Monterey, and in Turkey and Bahrain via conference call from his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump repeatedly said the service members were ‘very, very special people’ to him and everyone else in the country.
‘It is an honor to speak with you all and give God thanks for the blessing of freedom and for the heroes who have this tremendous courage to defend us,’ Trump started off the call.
President Donald Trump expressed Thanksgiving Day gratitude to members of the armed forces via conference call from his private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida
‘For each of you I know it is hard for you to be away from home at this time of year.’
Trump then continued by listing off his administration’s achievements in a bid to show the service members what they had to look forward to returning home.
‘We’re doing well at home,’ he said.
‘The economy is doing really great, when you come back you’re going to see that with the jobs and companies coming back into our country and the stock market just hit a record high, unemployment is the lowest it has been in 17 years.
‘So you’re fighting for something real, you’re fighting for something good.’
President Trump added that he and the rest of American supported them in their endeavors.
He spoke to the soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq, on the USS Monterey, and in Turkey and Bahrain via conference call
Trump repeatedly said the service members were ‘very, very special people’ to him and everyone else in the country
Trump then continued the call by listing off his administration’s achievements in a bid to show the service members what they had to look forward to returning home
‘We totally support you, in fact we love you,’ he told the soldiers.
‘This is a Thanksgiving you won’t forgot. You’re in a very different part of the world than you’re used to but boy are you doing a job there and thank God for you.
‘We also want to give thanks to our loved ones, our amazing military families. I know they miss you… they are every bit as important as the others you work with because they put up with so much.
‘They put up with the time away… they do it because they love our country and they love you.’
Trump earlier tweeted that he would be visiting a Coast Guard facility in Florida later in the day.
