He left his staff and the press on AF1 as the decoy plane while he sneaked off. What a piece of shit…..
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/politics/trump-plane-ruse.html
An Elaborate Ruse: Trump Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid Threats
President Trump hid in an airport catering cart and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.
By Maggie Haberman and Eric Schmitt
Aug. 10, 2026, 8:17 p.m. ET
Top White House and administration officials engaged in an elaborate ruse to spirit President Trump out of Turkey during the NATO summit there last month, transporting him in a catering cart to a military jet because of a credible threat against him and Air Force One from Iran, a senior U.S. official said Monday.
Mr. Trump had traveled to Turkey aboard a 747-8 donated by Qatar, which is far more luxurious than the older Boeing jets used for Air Force One, and which the U.S. government worked quickly to retrofit for presidential travel. Mr. Trump announced he would not take that plane, and instead would fly one of the older planes out of Turkey, for “old time’s sake.”
The Qatari jet traveled ahead of the older plane to a U.S. military base in the United Kingdom. Mr. Trump boarded the older plane as cameras rolled at the airport in Ankara.
But instead of flying out aboard that older, powder-blue-painted jet, Mr. Trump was taken by a food cart that had been fitted to the belly of the plane. He was then taken by car to a third plane, which he traveled aboard in secret to the United Kingdom, the official with knowledge of the matter said.
The furtive operation was reported earlier by the Washington Post, which identified the third plane carrying the president as a C-32A, a military variant of a Boeing 757. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Defense Department referred all questions to the White House.
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