Travel pool note #9 - Rolling from Zhongnanhai / roses quote

Motorcade is rolling from Zhongnanhai at 1.54pm. Pool did not lay eyes on POTUS.

Pool saw Bessent, Hegseth and Greer walking hastily to their vehicles a few minutes before we rolled.

Also here are the full quotes from Trump on roses in the garden earlier:

"These are the most beautiful roses anyone's ever seen ! I asked the President: 'Could you get me some for the rose garden, and he said yes. I've never seen roses so big!"

Colleagues who know say that Xi then said in Chinese:

"We will provide the president with some of our Chinese rose (Rosa chinensis) seeds, as he wants to plant some in the rose garden."

Danny Kemp

AFP White House Correspondent

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