Travel pool note #16 - Trump and Xi arrive for banquet
- From
- Danny KEMP
- Sent
- Thursday, May 14, 2026 6:20 PM CST
Presidents Trump and Xi walked into the state banquet at 6.13pm, to strains of stirring music from a Chinese military band.
Very hard to see POTUS from the side of the banquet where pool is located.
Xi is giving opening remarks from podium, praising MAGA. Via translation: “The people of China and the United States are both great peoples, which people achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and making America great again. Together holding hands, we can help each other succeed in advance, the well being of the whole world.”
Danny Kemp
AFP White House Correspondent