Trump greets JBER personnel, meets with Dunleavy as Air Force 1 briefly stops in Anchorage

President Donald Trump greeted military personnel and met with Gov. Mike Dunleavy at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Friday afternoon during a refueling stop en route to Japan from Washington, D.C.

Air Force One landed at JBER late Friday afternoon. Trump stepped off the plane and chatted with military personnel on the tarmac, posing for photos, signing caps and shaking hands along the way. As he walked across the tarmac, Trump said Alaska is a “nice stop.”

“We’re here in Alaska, we’re on our way to Japan, we’re with our great military. These are great, great future leaders, right?” Trump said in a video posted on his Twitter account Friday afternoon that showed him among JBER troops.

“We just got off the plane, I wanted to say hello, and these are tremendous people,” Trump says in the video, turning to the troops behind him. “So thank you very much,” he says to cheers from the crowd.

Trump met with Dunleavy aboard Air Force One during his refueling stop. The two discussed “a number of Alaska-focused priorities, including resource development, streamlining regulations and other items directed at growing Alaska’s economy,” according to Dunleavy spokesman Matt Shuckerow.