The POTUS secret trip to see the troops was a practice run for the My Fellow Americans flight. POTUS didn’t like the flight. Said he never was on a flight that was blacked out like the one he was just on.
This is what Trump said about the flight in.
want to just first say thank you for everything. And, on behalf of Melania and myself, we had a great flight in.
I want to thank everyone at Al Asad Air Base. Special people. We came in, we were — we felt very safe coming in. It was a pretty difficult journey in certain ways, but we felt very, very good; very safe. And also we knew exactly where we were going, and we’re going to say hello to you and wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Comments on flight from presser on AF1 in Iraq