Trumps host Halloween celebration at the White House

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted the White House's annual Halloween celebration on Thursday, greeting costumed children in a low-key event that PBS NewsHour · The Independent, relaying the Associated Press, and The Independent both describe. Both outlets say it lasted about an hour. The Independent frames it against two earlier years in which Trump set candy bars on children's heads, including a child in a Minions costume in 2019, and says this year he put the sweets in bags and avoided any such viral moment.

The Associated Press says the couple wore no costumes and gave out jumbo candy bars, and that Trump paused to watch his Qatari Air Force One jet fly low overhead before dancing a little to the "Ghostbusters" theme. The Independent adds that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff, attended with their families, and that one older child dressed as the president in a MAGA hat and a shirt with the number 47.

The Independent also reports that Trump earlier campaigned in South Carolina for Senator Darline Graham, and that he canceled weekend visits to Kansas and Iowa.

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