President Donald Trump's incredible military show of force for his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has everyone talking after Putin was greeted with a flyover of a B-2 stealth bomber on the tarmac in Alaska.
The amazing moment happened on Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage after President Trump and Putin met on the ground and shook hands on a red carpet.
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After their greeting, the two men walked down the red carpet when the bomber and the US. Fighter jets flew overhead, causing Putin to appear somewhat startled and shocked by the military greeting.
It was clear Putin wasn't expecting it. He stopped walking with Trump, looked up, turned his head one way, then turned his head the other way, as he looked up at the sky filled with the US military. Trump also stopped at one point but appeared to be unbothered as he clapped his hands before he leaned over and said something to the foreign leader.
One could only wish to have been a fly on the wall when Trump or someone in the White House suggested, "You know what would be cool ahead of our meeting? An epic flyover of our bomber when we are greeting each other on the tarmac in Alaska."
The plan was widely praised by conservative commentators and others on social media.
Podcast host Charlie Kirk wrote on X, "Donald Trump flies a stealth bomber directly over Vladimir Putin's head. Welcome to America!"
"President Trump just gave the most jaw-dropping flex I've seen in nearly six decades… meeting with Vladimir Putin as a Raptor F-22 sat on the tarmac… while B-2 Spirits sliced the sky overhead," another person wrote. "It wasn't just a meeting… it was a message… America's strength on full display for the world to see."
While a third person wrote, "WOW! This is what President Putin saw while riding with President Trump in the motorcade in Alaska. Nothing but pure USA military might. A B-2 flew over his head moments before this. I am LOVING it."
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier also reacted to the flyover and said it was hard not to point out the significance of the bomber flyover after it was stealth bombers that were used in the massively successful strike on Iran's nuclear capabilities with Operation Midnight Hammer in June.
ABC News' Jonathan Karl said that President Trump "does...know stagecraft. That was a made-for-television moment seeing him walk down one red carpet, greeting Putin, walking down another red carpet, and then getting into the presidential limo…"
"He sees this is — he has brought the Russian president to American soil," he added. "This is a home game for Donald Trump. He has brought him to — to American land. He has done that flyover of the B-2 bomber, just like the B-2 bombers that took out the — the air campaign against the Iranian nuclear facility, twalking by American firepower, and getting into the — the most sensitive personal vehicle in America, the presidential limousine."
At the time of this publication, the meeting between Trump and Putin was ongoing. Check back to RedState for updates on the Alaska Summit.
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