🥹Turns out this has been an old tradition all along. Seems I was the uninformed one here…
In this video, Cui Jie, commander of the women’s special operations unit of the CCP’s People’s Armed Police Falcon Commando Unit, personally explains in an interview that during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the ceremonial hostesses standing beside the medal presenters were actually special forces soldiers from the Falcon Commando Unit.
To prepare for the role, they spent six months growing out their hair and undergoing professional etiquette training.
So the question is: who exactly were the “waitresses” serving at the state banquet for Trump this time?