‘Can You Come To The White House?’ A Reporter’s Tale Of A Surprise Trip To Iraq

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December 27th, 2018

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive to visit members of the U.S. military during an unannounced trip to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on Wednesday. Reporters traveling with Trump, as has happened with past presidents, were not allowed to report that the president was in Iraq until the end of the visit … Continued

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The call came Sunday afternoon.

“Can you come to the White House?”

I was still wearing running pants and had my hair up in a plastic scrunchy, but figured there wasn’t time to change.

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