Blue state governor makes another appearance with Trump before his 100-day speech: 'Happy we're here'

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., welcomed President Donald Trump on the tarmac in Michigan before his speech to National Guard members on Tuesday, where she likewise spoke at the occasion without concealing her face.

” Well, I had not prepared to speak, however on behalf of all the military males and females who serve our nation and serve so honorably on behalf of the State of Michigan, I am truly damn pleased we’re here,” Whitmer stated.

Fox News co-host Judge Jeanine Pirro stated on “The 5” Tuesday that Whitmer had an opportunity to set the tone for the Democratic Celebration.

” I believe that … naturally, she exists due to the fact that of the soldiers, however there are some Democrats who would not remain in the exact same space with Donald Trump,” Pirro stated. “I believe that she did the ideal thing, and I believe that wishing to deal with the president to revive making to Michigan is a wise relocation.”

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Throughout the occasion on Tuesday, Trump revealed strategies to switch out the retiring A-10 Warthog airplane based out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan with 21 new F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets.

Trump shared the information throughout a speech to National Guard members at the Michigan base before an occasion honoring his 100th day in workplace.

” So I wish to thank Guv Gretchen Whitmer for bringing it likewise to our attention extremely highly. And, you understand, I’m not expected to do that. She’s a Democrat. They state, ‘Do not do that. Do not have her here.’ I stated, ‘No, she’s going to be here,'” Trump stated. “She’s done a great task, honestly. And she’s she was quite included with, with the Republicans. They collaborated on waiting. And it was difficult. So I wish to thank you quite, Gretchen. Excellent task.”

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer searches as President Donald Trump indications executive orders in the Oval Workplace of the White Home on April 9, in Washington, D.C. ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Whitmer’s existence Tuesday came a couple of weeks after apparently concealing her face throughout a conference with Trump in the Oval Workplace.

Whitmer was slammed for protecting her confront with a folder as an image of the minute ended up being a meme on social networks.

She satirized the now-viral minute by as soon as again holding folders up in front of her face when inquired about her journey to Washington, D.C., throughout an occasion at the Detroit Economic Club after the conference with the president.

” … I do not desire my image taken, that’s all it was. I sort of wanted I had not put my folder up in front of my face, however whatever. You understand I existed … I simply composed a book about finding out to make fun of yourself, so I’m respectable at it. All of us have our minutes,” Whitmer stated.

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer waits with Michigan National Guard adjutant basic Significant Gen. Paul Rogers at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Tuesday, in Harrison Town, Mich. ( AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The guv’s journey to Washington brought her 2028 governmental aspirations into the nationwide discussion as she struck a diplomatic tone with Trump. She thoroughly slammed Trump’s tariffs while stating she comprehended the “inspiration behind the tariffs” and even concurring with Trump that we “require to make more things in America.”

Whitmer’s Oval Workplace minute marked her 2nd conference with Trump in less than a month, and Tuesday’s conference now marks the 3rd. As Trump signed executive orders from the Oval Workplace on April 9 and responded to concerns from journalism, he stated Whitmer had actually “done an exceptional task” as guv and called her a “great individual,” a break from his common lines of attack on her character.

When Trump signed the executive orders requiring the examination of 2 first-term administration assistants who were important of his actions, Whitmer’s workplace stated she was brought into the space “with no notification” which her look was “not a recommendation of the actions taken or declarations made.”

However Trump called the problems “bipartisan” and jokingly included, “We’ll all stand there together and cut a ribbon. OK, Gretchen?”

Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancy and Deirdre Heavey added to this report.