President Donald Trump recently stopped his motorcade and exited his limousine for a very important reason: He wanted to thank and shake hands with a group of very surprised and appreciative firefighters.
In a now-viral video of his decision to change plans for his motorcade in order to meet these heroes, the presidential motorcade suddenly stopped — and two Secret Service agents from another vehicle walked up to the window of Trump’s car, seemingly to make a quick plan for his unscheduled meet and greet.
One firefighter who had been filming the motorcade as it was about to pass by could be heard saying, “No, he’s not” — then he laughed in disbelief.
Trump climbed out and walked toward the firefighters.
“Thank you, men, thank you,” Trump said as he shook their hands, making sure to greet each one.
The firefighter filming the impromptu encounter exclaimed, “That’s awesome!”
.@realDonaldTrump stops his motorcade to thank fireman. Awesome! pic.twitter.com/zcUrtUeNqT
— PolishPatryot?? (@PolishPatryot) August 4, 2018
Naturally, naysayers immediately jumped on the president’s kind act, saying it was “staged.”
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The firefighter who filmed the president posted on Twitter Sunday, “Hi I was the fireman with the body cam that captured the video, it was not staged at all, we were not expecting him to do it at all — we were even told that he won’t be stopping at all to see us, but as his limo was pulling in he was banging on the glass for the driver to stop.”
Hi I was the fireman with the body can that captured the video it was not staged at all we were not expecting him to do it at all we were even told that he won't be stopping at all to see us but as his limo was pulling in he was banging on the glass for the driver to stop
— Michael Giordano (@mgiordano382) August 5, 2018
“It didn’t look staged. Congratulations for the video and the honor. It looked like a very human moment from President Trump, and it’s too bad that folks can’t just see that,” wrote one commenter.
In the video, Trump also gathered the firefighters together for a group photo — and gave the thumbs up.
Best President we’ve had in a very very long time…thank you President Trump!!!❤️
— heidi wallace (@ghfw103) August 4, 2018
The Twitter post that showed the president’s appreciation of these heroes went viral this past weekend after it was posted Saturday afternoon — and it’s so far garnered over 1 million views and over 10,000 retweets.
Check out the remarkable video of a very human and very unusual moment in politics:
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