2026-08-11
According to reports, President Trump secretly switched planes while leaving Turkey after a NATO summit last month, using an airport catering truck/container to move from Air Force One to a separate military aircraft, in response to a threat from Iran.
All sides report the same underlying account from a report (attributed to The Washington Post by some) and largely use similar language. Coverage differs mainly in emphasis: left and center outlets stress the secrecy, hiding, and a deception in which reporters were misled about the president's whereabouts, while right outlets frame the threat more specifically as an assassination attempt and emphasize the maneuver as a way to evade or decoy the danger.
Left outlets report that Trump secretly hid in a catering container and switched to a military jet to leave Turkey amid an Iran threat after the NATO summit.
When Air Force One took off from Turkey after July’s Nato summit, almost everyone believed Donald Trump was on board … but he wasn’t. Jonathan Freedland talks to Tara Setmayer of the Seneca Project about why the White House felt the need to come up with such an elaborate lie to protect the presiden…
When Air Force One took off from Turkey after July’s Nato summit, almost everyone believed Donald Trump was on board … but he wasn’t. Jonathan Freedland talks with Tara Setmayer of the Seneca Project about why the White House felt the need to come up with such an elaborate lie to protect the presid…
President Trump secretly moved from Air Force One to another plane within a day of U.S. and Turkish intelligence picking up on an Iranian plot to fire a missile at the jet, CBS News has learned.
Secretaries Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent were on the decoy flight last month when President Trump secretly switched to a different plane while Pete Hegseth was with Mr. Trump.
President Donald Trump downplayed the extraordinary nature of the subterfuge involved in his flight, which saw him stow away in an airport catering container to sneak onto another plane while Air Force One was sent into the sky, essentially as a decoy.
President Trump boarded Air Force One last month as usual. But the Washington Post reports he was smuggled off the plane in a catering truck and flew on an entirely different aircraft due to a threat.
In response to a threat against the jet last month, the president was clandestinely removed in a catering container. But the plane was sent into the skies anyway with government employees and reporters onboard.
Some of President Trump’s top officials traveled on the original Air Force One, which the president secretly disembarked.
President Trump secretly switched from Air Force One to a different plane after a NATO summit in Turkey last month. The U.S. had learned of a credible Iranian missile threat as he left Turkey's capital. Ed O'Keefe reports.
President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the Republican president was flying on Air Force One, according to a report published by The Washington Post on Monday.
President Trump hid in an airport catering container and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.
Ahead of a flight from Turkey, President Trump secretly left Air Force One and was moved to another plane with the help of a catering truck, according to a source, as the U.S. grappled with a threat from Iran.
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