President Trump addressed troops from five different branches of the military in a special Thanksgiving video call on Thursday from his Mar a Lago resort. He thanked troops for “having the tremendous courage to defend us and to defend freedom.” Addressing troops stationed in Afghanistan, the President said: “Everybody’s talking about the progress you’ve made in the last few months since I opened it up,” referencing his decision earlier this year to send up to 4,000 more trips to the country — going against his campaign promise to scale back foreign commitments. “We opened it up, we said, ‘Go ahead, we’re going to fight to win.