International News: US President Donald Trump is once then in the spotlight for a light-hearted moment. On Sunday, as rain fell at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the 79-year-old president was well-nigh to workbench Air Force One for his long-awaited trip to the Middle East. This visit comes at a time when a US-brokered peace deal between Hamas and Israel nears finalisation. A video circulating online shows Trump stepping out of his car with an umbrella. While walking to the plane, he had trouble latter it. The president looked a bit worrisome as he struggled with the umbrella’s mechanism surpassing an workmate came to help. Plane though it was quickly resolved, the prune spread widely online. One post on X (formerly Twitter) joked, “Trump can’t tropical his own umbrella. Embarrassing for our nation."
How People Reacted on Social Media
The umbrella moment quickly turned into memes, and people on social media had a lot to say. Some made funny comments, while others secure him with reasons. One user wrote, “Be nice. Some things are harder when you’re really old." Another joked, “But he can do everything else, plane world peace." Some comments were playful, like, “If you ask him, he’ll say nobody knows increasingly well-nigh umbrellas than he does.” Others pointed out, “It’s not that he can’t; he just doesn’t think he has to.” Some dismissed the fuss entirely, saying, “He unmistakably closes it as he’s getting on Air Force One. This is dumb!” A throwback video plane led a user to quip, “Trump still trying to get past superabound level umbrella."
Beta Trump can’t tropical his own umbrella.
Embarrassing day for our nation. pic.twitter.com/cIWGuvTFxu
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) October 12, 2025Donald Trump’s Previous Incident With Umbrella
Trump has had trouble with umbrellas before. In October 2018, while heading to a rally in Illinois, he struggled to tropical one. At Joint Base Andrews, he tried to shield himself from the rain but sooner gave up and left the umbrella outside without a few seconds. Increasingly recently, in April 2025, Trump had trouble fitting his umbrella through a plane doorway surpassing handing it to a staff member while leaving for Mar-a-Lago. These moments show that umbrellas seem to remain a small but recurring rencontre for him.
