The honor is the stairs. The work is still Nov. 10, magnets and chips.
🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump met Xi's plane on the tarmac himself, something no president has done for anyone since 1962
He and Melania stood at the bottom of the stairs at Joint Base Andrews, with six F-16s and six F-22s parked behind them and a red carpet rolled across the concrete, for the… https://t.co/Be75V4paYz pic.twitter.com/PrOntEtbn6
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 23, 2026
- Touchdown shortly before 6 p.m. ET. Peng Liyuan with him. Cai Qi and Wang Yi on the trip.
- Trump and Melania waited at the steps. Handshake. Red carpet. Six F-16s and six F-22s lined on the field.
- Bloomberg. First U.S. president in about six decades to greet a foreign counterpart at Andrews, not counting a pope. Last comparable case cited: Kennedy and Macmillan in 1962.
- Xi did not meet Trump at the airport in Beijing in May. Washington is paying that courtesy back tonight.
- Thursday: White House arrival, Rose Garden inspection, bilateral meeting, state dinner with OpenAI, Google and Nvidia names on the guest list. Friday: tea. No side trips outside the capital. About 48 hours on the ground.
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