Trump hid in catering cart to board secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat – reports

<p>Elaborate ruse was used to transport president to military flight from Air Force One to return from Nato meet</p><p>Prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight from Turkey to Britain last month when the White House said he was flying aboard ⁠Air Force One, in an extraordinary ruse that involved hiding the president in an airport catering cart, according to reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times.</p><p>The operation took place when Trump was in Ankara for a Nato summit with world leaders, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/10/trump-flew-secrecy-amid-iran-threat-air-force-one-became-decoy/">according to the Post</a>. The president reportedly boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet in view of television cameras, and then was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies preflight, a US official told the Post.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-secret-flight-nato-return">Continue reading...</a>