{"id":56970,"date":"2025-12-10T05:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56970\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:25:13","slug":"trump-arrives-at-wilkes-barre-scranton-airport-takes-off-in-marine-one-helicopter-to-mount-airy-event-delco-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56970\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump arrives at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton airport, takes off in Marine One helicopter to Mount Airy event \u2013 Delco Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSTON TWP. \u2014 President Donald Trump has arrived at the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport ahead of his visit Tuesday night to Mount Air Casino Resort in Paradise Twp.<\/p>\n

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Marine Corps helicopters wait for Air Force One at the Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One at the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre International Airport on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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Air Force One taxies down the run way at the Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One at the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre International Airport on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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Lights from Air Force One come into view at the Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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Air Force One arrives at the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre International Airport in Avoca on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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Marine Corps helicopters wait for Air Force One at the Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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Air Force One touched down at the airport shortly after 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Trump emerged from the presidential plane then entered the Marine One helicopter to be transported to Mount Airy.<\/p>\n

White House officials have said Trump\u2019s main focus will be to discuss an economic message about ending the inflation crisis he says he inherited from President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s visit marks Trump\u2019s first return to Northeast Pennsylvania since winning back the presidency last year, when he twice campaigned in the region.<\/p>\n

Then-candidate Trump held a campaign rally Oct. 9, 2024, at the Riverfront Sports complex in Scranton. It followed an Aug. 17, 2024, rally at Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Twp.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump and Air Force One arrived at the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport around 5:50 p.m. Tuesday,. (Bob Kalinowski\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n

Trump previously spoke at the arena in April 2016, October 2016, August 2018 and September 2022. He also participated in a Fox News town hall at the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple on March 5, 2020; held an Aug. 20, 2020, rally at Mariotti Building Products in Old Forge; and landed and spoke at the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport in Pittston Twp. on Nov. 2, 2020.<\/p>\n

He also campaigned twice at Lackawanna College in Scranton during his successful 2016 presidential campaign. Those events took place in July and November 2016, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSTON TWP. \u2014 President Donald Trump has arrived at the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport ahead of his visit Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,803,3296,139,28,50,178,180,179,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-56970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-local-news","9":"tag-luzerne-county","10":"tag-national-politics","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news","17":"tag-top-stories-dtd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}