President Barack Obama arrived safely by jet Wednesday night at Tinker Air Force Base as part of a four-state energy tour.

The president, making his first presidential trip to Oklahoma, will leave Thursday morning to go to the Cushing area, where he is expected to deliver remarks on domestic energy and on the Keystone XL pipeline.

He is scheduled to return Thursday afternoon to Tinker, and then he will depart for Ohio. None of the president's stops in Oklahoma are open to the public.

Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and Air Force Maj. Gen. Bruce Litchfield, commander of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker, greeted Obama as he stepped off Air Force One about 9:30 p.m. Oklahoma's top two elected officials, Gov. Mary Fallin and Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, both Republicans, were on out-of-state trips already scheduled before the Democratic president announced late last week he was coming to Oklahoma.