If you can't figure that out, then you are correct, indeed, it isn't a fair fight.
Look, you asked for an example, I gave one and indicated pretty clearly what the potential implications are. Your last two or three posts have been trying, in an inane way, to show that it is not specific enough for you.
Fine, no skin off my back whatsoever, either way. As I said, you are free to think whatever you wish.
He travels with the United States military. You act as if he travels across town to a hotel room to thank them. The idea is that as he is disembarking a plane he thanks the people who are serving. The same danger exists to the President whether he thanks his crew or not.