President Trump on Wednesday addressed reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews after his travel was temporarily delayed.
Reporters scrambled as an emergency slide was deployed on the new Air Force One gifted to the US by Qatar.
Trump was inside Marine One when the inflatable slide was deployed.
President Trump exited Marine One and walked over to the reporters.
Trump told the reporters that the slide was being tested.
“They were doing a check on the emergency slide. It takes about 15 minutes,” Trump said.
“They were checking it before, and they just wanted to make sure,” Trump told reporters.
He added, “So they’ve, I guess, already put it up. They want to make sure everything works perfectly.”
A reporter asked President Trump about tonight’s Midterm Convention.
“We’re gonna explain what we’ve done for the country! We’ve done things never done in the 1st or 2nd term, frankly, of a president,” Trump said.
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President Trump is en route to Dallas, Texas, to deliver remarks at the Republican Midterm Convention.
