US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters on July 8, moments before he was smuggled off the main presidential aircraft inside an airport catering container and boarded onto a secondary, smaller military aircraft while travelling back to the US from a NATO summit in Turkey.
One more threat was that someone present near the NATO summit had been seen with a shoulder-fired missile. The president then reportedly quickly left the plane, stepping inside one of the cargo containers, to board a smaller US Air Force aircraft positioned nearby. About a dozen journalists traveling in a separate section of Air Force One with no access to the president were unaware of the switch and flew out of Turkey on the plane despite the apparent threat from Iran, which is at war with the United States. “Whatever it is. You know my attitude?
An Iranian threat prompted Trump’s secret Air Force One swap last month, according to The New York Times. Two US officials told the publication that they knew about one specific threat, which was a surface-to-air missile against Air Force One. “I think actually the plane that I flew on was at greater risk,” Trump said on Tuesday, who did not provide many details about the action. But he said the incident did not scare him. “I don’t worry about anything, to be honest,” Trump said.
