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President Trump visited US troops in Afghanistan this Thursday—the first time he has done so. In addition to his Thanksgiving greeting, he also announced that he had resumed peace negotiations with the Taliban.

This being the same Taliban that protected helped Osama Bin Laden as it planned and launched attacks on US soil on 9/11.

But more importantly, he wanted to let the troops know what a great job he was doing.

“We’re doing so well. Our country is the strongest economically it’s ever been. We’ve never done so well. We have the greatest economy anywhere in the world.”

“So it is nice to know that you are fighting for something that is doing well as opposed to something that was not doing well just a number of years ago.”

According to Slate, he went on to praise what a great job he had been doing with the stock market:

“[T]he stock market reached the highest level ever in the history of the exchanges, all three. If you look, all three. It’s incredible. It’s incredible what’s happening. Just broke a record. I think it’s close to 130 days. So we’re less than three years and 130 times we’ve broken the all-time record. And to me that doesn’t mean an all-time record, it means something different. It means jobs. It means 401(k)s. People come up to me with their 401(k)s and they say, ‘You’ve made me look like a genius. Thank you very much.’ They are up 78 percent. They feel good.”

The trip lasted about 3 and a half hours in total.

Trump, in surprise Thanksgivings Day visit to the troops in Afganistan, reminds them what they are fighting for: a record-breaking stock market.

— ron debate (@rondebate) November 28, 2019

Good thing Trump managed to remind the troops about how great he is during that short time.