The folks at CNN are having a meltdown over President Trump's surprise visit to troops in Iraq on Tuesday.

Primetime host Don Lemon, a regular Trump critic, is accusing the Commander-in-Chief of being "the Grinch." A CNN national security analyst agrees and said on his show last night the President "stole Christmas," by politicizing his message.

So CNN is now labeling Trump as "the Grinch" who stole Christmas from the troops in Iraq.



This of course comes after they spent an entire day railing on Trump for not visiting troops during Christmastime (even though it turned out he had a scheduled trip to Iraq) pic.twitter.com/xWXnWSUyRC — Caleb Hull ???????? (@CalebJHull) December 27, 2018

While President Trump was aboard Air Force One and on his way to Iraq late Monday night and into Tuesday, the media face planted repeatedly by claiming he was the only president since 2002 not to visit U.S. troops around Christmastime. Things went downhill from there.

So to summarize the last two days, the media went from...



"Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime"

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"Trump only went to Iraq to visit troops after he got embarrassed"

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"The troops were too excited and political when Trump showed up" pic.twitter.com/7st75mEp0a — Caleb Hull ???????? (@CalebJHull) December 27, 2018

Want to know why people hate the media? This tweet received thousands of RTs and the article was shared by just about every prominent liberal.



However, Trump left for Iraq on Christmas night to visit troops.



Will they apologize for their story? https://t.co/nXGwnnRBfQ — Caleb Hull ???????? (@CalebJHull) December 27, 2018

And then things got even worse: they started criticizing troops stationed overseas for daring to support Trump.

Video footage and the written report of Trump's visit with service members in Iraq showed signing of hats and a "Trump 2020" patch.



But troops' requests for the autographs could brush up against Department of Defense guidelines for political activities. https://t.co/jUUqF91bcX — CNN (@CNN) December 27, 2018

Trump the Grinch? Members of the pretentious media should look in the mirror.