New York Post

Don slags mag after A’stan trip

It’s Fake News(week)

- By YARON STEINBUCH

President Trump slammed Newsweek over its story on his Thanksgivi­ng plans, which the mag said would include “tweeting, golfing and more” — before he ended up making a surprise visit to US troops in Afghanista­n.

“I thought Newsweek was out of business?” the president wrote, quote-tweeting his son Donald Trump Jr.’s photo of the commander in chief serving Thanksgivi­ng dinner to the service members at Bagram Airfield, north of Kabul.

Attached to the image was a screenshot of Newsweek’s Thursday morning story, with the headline: “How is Trump spending Thanksgivi­ng? Tweeting, golfing and more.”

The report began, “As with any other day of the year, Trump will probably be tweeting, or expressing his opinions in another way.”

“Fake news gonna fake!” Trump Jr. wrote.

In an updated version of the article, Newsweek added the president’s first trip to Afghanista­n as president to the top of the story.

“President Donald Trump made a surprise trip to visit U.S. troops in Afghanista­n on Thanksgivi­ng Day and said he had reopened negotiatio­ns with the Taliban,” the updated story read.

During his trip, Trump met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and announced the restart of peace talks, as well as a planned reduction of US troops in the country.

“It’s a dangerous area and he wants to support the troops,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said of Trump. “He and Mrs. Trump recognize that there’s a lot of people far away from their families during the holidays and we thought it’d be a nice surprise.

“It’s truly about Thanksgivi­ng and supporting the troops.”

Newsweek did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.

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