President Trump Breaks With Tradition In Korea – Eats With the Troops

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US President Donald Trump (2nd-L) talks to military personnel while South Korean President Moon Jae-In (R) looks on at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul on November 7, 2017. Trump's marathon Asia tour moves to South Korea, another key ally in the struggle with nuclear-armed North Korea, but one with deep reservations about the US president's strategy for dealing with the crisis. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON / The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by SONG Kyung-Seok has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [November] instead of [September]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure that the same actions are carried out by them. Failure to promptly comply with these instructions will entail liability on your part for any continued or post notification usage. Therefore we thank you very much for all your attention and prompt action. We are sorry for the inconvenience this notification may cause and remain at your disposal for any further information you may require. (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Simply put – this is why President Trump is beloved by active and veteran military members.

During the President’s visit to South Korea, he eschewed what one official described as “cliché” – a visit to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) which separates the north and the south. A visit to the DMZ had become a longstanding tradition, started by former President Ronald Reagan.

“It’s becoming a little bit of a cliché, frankly,” one senior administration official told reporters.  “And that’s why he’s going to be down at Humphreys.”

‘Humphreys’ is Camp Humphreys where Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in stopped in to have lunch with the troops.

Trump told the troops there was nowhere he’d rather be, promising they’d one day return home to good jobs.

The President was well-received by our fighting men and women …

“I had a choice of having a beautiful, very fancy lunch and I said no, I want to eat with the troops and we ate with the troops,” Trump told reporters.

And guess what was on tap for the President and the troops? It was ‘Taco Tuesday,’ of course.

“The menu was as it always is on Tuesday — Mexican food,” Stars and Stripes reported. “Trump had tacos, a burrito and curly fries.”

The manager of the grill at Humphreys, Sgt. 1st Class Michael Banegura, said he gave the President other menu options, but Trump insisted on eating what the other soldiers were eating.

“He said he’d rather eat with the troops than at a fancy restaurant,” Pvt. Merion Holmes said. “It made me feel like he cared.”

And there you have the difference between former President Obama and our current Commander-in-Chief in a nutshell.

Trump makes our military members feel like he cares.

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By Rusty Weiss

Rusty Weiss has been covering politics for over 15 years. His writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, Fox... More about Rusty Weiss

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