Yeah, he does look weirdly excited. Xi knows it 😂
🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 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 start of three days that include a state dinner.
The last time an American president greeted a foreign leader at that base, John F. Kennedy was waiting for Britain's prime minister.
Xi did not return the gesture when Trump flew to Beijing in May.
Ahead of the visit, a senior U.S. official said Beijing has not taken fentanyl seriously enough, with China still the main supplier of the chemicals Mexican cartels use, and about 35,000 Americans dead in the past year alone.
Greeting him personally is a real gamble, because Trump spent his own leverage before the talking started, and the list he needs to work through is long: fentanyl, tariffs, chips, rare earths, and China's role in both Ukraine and Iran.
If he walks away from three days of pageantry without a single commitment, Beijing got the photographs for free.
Source: New York Post, WH / Writer: Daniel