Former President and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump released an ad in early-voting states over the Christmas holiday. The ad features Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders telling the story of Trump’s surprise Christmas visit to soldiers in Iraq in 2018.
“It was Christmas Day. We boarded Air Force One in complete and total darkness, in the pitch black of night,” Sanders says in the ad. “We landed in war-torn western Iraq. No lights on the runway.
“There were hundreds of troops packed into a dining hall. They had absolutely no idea that the president and first lady were about to walk into that room.”
“It was a sight and a sound and a scene that I hope I never forget. That room absolutely erupted. That was the kind of patriotism President Trump brought back to our country,” Sanders said.
“One of the young soldiers yelled from the back of the room, ‘Mr. President, I reenlisted in the military because of you.’ And without missing a beat the president said, ‘And son, I am here because of you.'”
Watch the ad below:
New @realDonaldTrump Christmas ad featuring our secret trip to Iraq five years ago on Christmas Day. pic.twitter.com/YEDlQpPlWv
— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) December 24, 2023
