FLOTUS pool report #3 - more color and event ends

POTUS high fived a boy appeared to be dressed as him. The boy was wearing a blue suit, red tie and red hat. The little girl with him was dressed in a white coat, a la Melania Trump. FLOTUS appeared to be complimenting them. After those kids got their candy, POTUS directed the kids to turn around and pose with the Trumps for photos.

When a family wanted a group photo with the Trumps, FLOTUS wrangled the smallest member - who was about to dash off - into the shot.

FLOTUS later bent down to comfort a little girl who seemed a bit overwhelmed by the event.

POTUS continued to direct the event as needed - when the line slowed he crocked his finger at the kids to get them moving toward the Trumps. At one point he tossed a Hershey’s bar at a dad, who caught it.

POTUS also put a candy bar on top of the light up cap of a kid dressed at the EDM DJ Marshmallow (thanks to DailyMail’s Jon Michael Raasch for the costume ID).

More memorable costumes: a McDonald’s drive through (two kids in a wagon with a McDonald’s sign), a Statue of Liberty, and Secret Service agents.

Staff were swapping out the baskets of candy for the first couple. At one point POTUS was signaling for a new one.

As the sun went down, the White House was lit up in orange.

Staff cut off the line off at 6:38 pm and the Trumps put down their baskets and posed for photos.

POTUS - holding FLOTUS’ hand - came up to the press and yelled he was going to do a tele townhall. It was hard to hear him over the music. He gestured back to the White House.

POTUS and FLOTUS went back inside at 6:41 pm.

And that’s a wrap for Halloween at the White House.

Emily Goodin

White House Correspondent

McClatchy DC/Miami Herald

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