BBC Essex journalist Richard Smith reported live from the runway as Trump landed for his state visit in June 2019.
He said: “The leader of the free world arriving in your patch is a big deal – and my job was to bring that alive for radio listeners in June 2019.
Donald Trump’s flight into Stansted had only been confirmed just days before, so I had to try and steep myself in facts as soon as possible.
As a radio reporter, I knew there would potentially be a need to fill time, to find ways of keeping going throughout the arrival process.
The risk with live coverage is sometimes very little – or nothing – can happen.
I was placed at the front of a fenced-off area holding about 50 photographers and journalists from the world’s media, all there to see the doors open and the president and first lady walk out.
There was a man with a trundle wheel measuring out exactly to the inch where Air Force One should park in front of the waiting reporters.
One of the TV reporters was searching for a hair band to deal with the high winds next to the runway. The gusts were particularly bad for telly hair.
It took Trump 15 minutes to exit the plane after touchdown, which felt like an eternity at the time.
I managed to keep talking live on air for that whole 15 minutes. I think I must have been running off pure adrenaline.
Trump walked down the stairs, boarded a military helicopter and headed straight to London.
And just like that, the president of the United States of America had come and gone.
You only expect one presidential state visit, and so I felt the hand of history on my shoulder that day.
There was undoubtedly pressure to get everything spot on and to put on a good show for our listeners.
The smell of fuel was also really strong: clearly, presidential jet fuel is the best.”