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Trump on airplane ruse: "I do what they say"
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August 12, 2026
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1:52Now PlayingPresident Trump confirmed Tuesday night he secretly switched planes while flying out of Turkey after the NATO summit last month amid threats from Iran.
"It's only up to the Secret Service. I just follow what they'd like to do, so I go by Secret Service and the military," he told reporters at Joint Base Andrews. "They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it, I do what they say."
President Trump was covertly moved in an airport catering truck to board a smaller military plane, using the older Air Force One jet as a decoy, the Washington Post reported Monday.
The president said he "didn't really ask too much about" the nature of the threat, saying he receives "a lot of threats."
"Any consequential president has a lot of threats. Nonconsequential presidents don't get threats. And I think that I'm maybe the most consequential president," he said.
"I don't worry about anything, to be honest, whatever it is. You know my attitude? Whatever."
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