This should be fun. President Trump is making history by traveling to Joint Base Andrews to welcome Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping for an official state visit. First Lady Melania Trump has attended to all the formal details in advance of the two days the Trump’s and Xi’s will spend together.
Livestream links below to the first event; the arrival ceremony for Chairman Xi.
UPDATE: Video Added.
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There is a genuine warmth between both Xi and Trump and it is visible in their interactions.
On Wednesday, September 23, the President will greet His Excellency, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China and Madame Peng Liyuan at Joint Base Andrews.
On Thursday morning, September 24, the President and First Lady will host a State Arrival Ceremony honoring His Excellency, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China and Madame Peng Liyuan.
The ceremony, which will be held on the South Lawn, State Floor, and Rose Garden of the White House, will feature 479 military personnel, representing all branches of the United States Armed Forces.
As the arrival begins, the South Drive will be lined with the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon leading to a national flag display of U.S. and China flags where the United States Army Herald Trumpets will present a fanfare on the South Portico as the President and First Lady welcome His Excellency Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan to the White House.
On the State Floor, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band will play the national anthems of the People’s Republic of China and the United States of America, followed by remarks from both The President and His Excellency Xi Jinping.
The ceremony will also feature a Presidential Salute from the United States Marine Silent Drill Platoon and United States Joint Forces Command on the South Lawn. There will then be a Military Review in the Rose Garden where The United States Army Herald Trumpets will line the roof of the West and Oval Colonnades. Military demonstrations will be performed by the United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, the United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon, and “The Commandant’s Own” United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps. The ceremony will conclude with a military flyover featuring a B-2 Spirit and four F-22 Raptors.
After the arrival ceremony, Mrs. Trump and Madame Peng Liyuan will visit the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art to explore works spanning centuries of artistic achievement and Sino-American cultural exchange.
On Thursday evening, the President and First Lady will greet His Excellency Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan upon their arrival to the North Portico of the White House for a State Dinner in the East Room. The Office of the First Lady will share additional details on the State Dinner on Wednesday, September 23.
On Friday morning, the President and First Lady will greet His Excellency Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan upon their arrival to the South Portico of the White House for tea in the Red Room of the White House. Afterward, the couples will travel to the National Archives in Washington, DC where they will view a variety of important records and documents significant to the American and Chinese relationship throughout history.
To conclude the historic State visit, the President and First Lady will bid farewell to His Excellency and Madame Peng Liyuan at the National Archives. {SOURCE}
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Viewers of Fox News, CNN, MSNOW, and the three networks won’t even know it happened because they don’t cover PDJT anymore.
Cspan didn’t cover t either.
That’s a first.
Real America’s Voice just reported the trad media’s injunction demanding access was denied.
Interesting.
Melania is as stunning and gorgeous as ever!
Was thinking the same thing. The dress she is wearing looks to be a great choice. Quite lovely.
Thank you Sundance, we never get tired of seeing him going to the arena, especially making sure Melania got on ok…in those heels.
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I’ll be wishing both First Families a wonderful productive business visit in which all people in the world will benefit from their ideas and actions. World Peace depend upon people being willing and able to socialize and talk to each other.
I wonder if Xi will see things from China at the Smithsonian that were saved from Mao’s cultural revolution. Perhaps that is an irrelevant question but how do peoples go forward when they destroy their culture?
Also, where does this couple quarter while they are here?
I’m sure they’ve had a regret over two over killing all the “Intellectuals” (ie. that is, educated people).
That set ’em back a couple generations.
Worse than Covid.
I was hoping Xi would bring that Giant Panda silent drill team along, always an impressive site.
The simple act of rolling out the red carpet seems complicated for some.
These people act like they have never done a
Red Carpet welcome before.
I’m watching Agenda Free TV and he is cracking up over this.
You have to wonder what the thoughts are inside the plane.
Will rsbn be covering the visit tomorrow?
The RAV pool feed looks great!
Xi looks fine. The stroke news must have been fake.
So neat to watch the greeting ceremony!
The senator from Mississippi stupidly made a statement how inappropriate all of this is.
I’m with Marco, who pointed out that China is the only country that rivals our financial status.
The senator seemed to forget the adage about holding one’s friends close and one’s enemies closer.
Melania looks fabulous, btw.
“I heard you was dead”
Xi smiles and replies “not hardly”
Snake Plissken?
For you young ones out there, the above quotation is a famous exchange in the John Wayne movie Big Jake (q.v.). 🙂
I can imagine that Xi and everyone on the plane will be very tired. That’s a long flight and jet lag will be coming.
The weather is ripe for turbulence. Any thoughts of sleeping on the plane coming over probably never happened.
My ears nearly started hurting just *looking* at that wind blowing their hair around the whole time they were on the ground.
Trade Rep Greer’s Bloomberg interview that SD posted yesterday will stick with me for a long time in re: China. Paraphrasing but it was more or less:
“The Chinese are who they have demonstrated to be over a thousand years of history. We take them as they are, not as the US Gov’t would wish them to be. As such, we will take very short-term views on any agreements with them and will re-evaluate with regular frequency. The Trump Administration lives in ‘Realville’.”
Yep.”Over a thousand years” is no exxaggeration.
They ain’t changing, cuz this is not a new thing, The lying with a smile on your face/ amorality didn’t start with “communism”.
Read the old Chines Classics and you’ll see the exact same stuff.
I agree. It was good. Greer is proving he is a very smart man.
Was also the line in “The Shootist” when Wayne was carriage riding with Lauren Bacall and meeting with Richard Boone but I couln’t find the clip. Probably in many more movies too.
Jacob McCandles
I think it was a line used in a few of his movies. Wayne had that habit of using taglines.
Seems like this thread got discombobulated
Here’s my take away:
Why isn’t there a Slovenian mail order bride service?
The first lady is just stunning.