{"id":1603,"date":"2019-09-25T10:36:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:04:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:04:33","slug":"australian-state-visit-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/australian-state-visit-to-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian State Visit to the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Official White House Photo by Keegan Barber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For their second Official State Visit,\nPresident and Mrs. Trump welcomed Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison\nand his wife, Jenny, to the White House on September 20, 2019. Again, Mrs.\nTrump proved to the world that she is an exceptional White House hostess. This\ntime, she planned an alfresco dinner and evening in the White House Rose\nGarden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The first lady characteristically carefully planned all of the details for the exquisite dinner. In a nod to Australia\u2019s national colors and floral emblem, the golden wattle, green and gold were used throughout the decor. Alternating round and rectangle tables draped in beautiful shades of yellow and green linens displayed centerpieces featuring more than 2,500 yellow-hued roses in gold woven baskets. The Reverend Franklin Graham gave a warm invocation before the celebratory meal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Official White House photo by Andrea Hanks  <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Continuing President and Mrs. Trump\u2019s\ndesire to highlight the U.S. military in as many ways as possible at all White\nHouse events, the entertainment for the evening was the largest gathering ever\nof premier military musicians for a state dinner at the Executive Residence. It\nfeatured over 150 members from choral and musical groups from the United States\nArmy, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force that included the \u201cThe President\u2019s Own\u201d\nUnited States Marine Chamber Orchestra, the United States Army Chorus, the\nUnited States Army Herald Trumpets, the United States Army Strings, the United\nStates Navy Band Sea Chanters, the United States Air Force Strings and the\nUnited States Air Force Singing Sergeants. The soaring voices surrounded the\ndinner guests entirely from all sides \u2014 and at every level: the talented\nmembers of the military set their stage on the roof overlooking the Rose\nGarden, along the West Colonnade, and along the outer edges of the Garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even in terms of White House extravagance, the event\u2019s dining and music were extraordinary \u2014 and Mrs. Trump and her staff brought the outdoor setting to a stunning level, unlike any state dinner before. In her column in the New York Post, Australian reporter Miranda Devine wrote, \u201c\u2018It was the most magnificent, spellbinding, magical night crafted out of the imagination of Mrs. Trump,\u2019 said Morrison afterward, admitting to being \u2018overcome\u2019 by tears when the military orchestra played the iconic Australian song \u2018Waltzing Matilda.\u2019 Australian golfer Greg Norman, who had been seated next to Mrs. Trump, remarked, \u2018[It was] the best event I have ever attended. EVER!\u2019 Henry Kissinger reportedly told Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney it was one of the best official functions he had attended, high praise from a 96-year-old statesman whose career serving presidents began in the Nixon administration.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For their second Official State Visit, President and Mrs. Trump welcomed Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison and his wife, Jenny, to the White House on September 20, 2019. Again, Mrs. Trump proved to the world that she is an exceptional White House hostess. This time, she planned an alfresco dinner and evening in the… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[49,1],"tags":[47,31,21,48,25,33,20,22,18,19],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaining","category-white-house-wednesdays","tag-entertainingatthewhitehouse","tag-firstlady","tag-maga","tag-presidentialtraditions","tag-whitehouse","tag-whitehousehistory","tag-whitehousetraditions","tag-whitehousewednesdays","tag-flotus","tag-realmelaniatrump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}