--- title: President Trump Praises His Afghanistan Strategy in Thanksgiving Address to Troops | TIME description: 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” canonical: https://time.com/video/dG9tcox5/ og:title: President Trump Praises His Afghanistan Strategy in Thanksgiving Address to Troops og:description: 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” og:url: https://time.com/video/dG9tcox5/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dG9tcox5/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Praises His Afghanistan Strategy in Thanksgiving Address to Troops twitter:description: 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” twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dG9tcox5/poster.jpg?width=720 --- # President Trump Praises His Afghanistan Strategy in Thanksgiving Address to Troops ## Video: President Trump Praises His Afghanistan Strategy in Thanksgiving Address to Troops [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump Praises His Afghanistan Strategy in Thanksgiving Address to Troops](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dG9tcox5.m3u8) (1:10)  _Published 2017-11-23. 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”_ --- Jul 27, 2023 11:02 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Trump Makes Thanksgiving Visit to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, Touts Resumed Taliban Peace Talks](/video/bH7JlBSU/) ### Trump Makes Thanksgiving Visit to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, Touts Resumed Taliban Peace Talks [Watch President Trump's Inaugural Address](/video/bL9xqRfb/) ### Watch President Trump's Inaugural Address [Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - We Wont be a Burden](/video/XPHkBd35/) ### Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - We Wont be a Burden --- ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trump Praises His Afghanistan Strategy in Thanksgiving Address to Troops","description":"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”","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dG9tcox5/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-11-23T17:55:12.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dG9tcox5.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/dG9tcox5/","duration":"PT1M10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/dG9tcox5/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```