Air Force 1 touched down at the Naval Air Station on Boca Chica at 11:50 am this morning. President Donald Trump spent a brief few minutes on the tarmac greeting local officials and serving military forces in Key West before headed to meet with the Joint Interagency Task Force downtown. It was the first visit from a seated commander in chief since President John F. Kennedy’s stop in 1962. Just before 2 p.m., Trump was set to depart Key West en route to Palm Beach.

Trump makes his way across the tarmac prior to being escorted to the Joint Interagency Task Force-South. Hays Blinckmann/Keys Weekly
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