You won't be surprised to know that there are "journalists" doing the thing where they make everything about themselves again.
Yesterday Brett wrote about journalists and other Democrats who are clutching pearls over what happened recently in Turkey:
The big news on X today isn't that it's Election Day in several key states, but that President Donald Trump pulled the old switcheroo on a flight from Turkey, boarding Air Force One in full view of cameras, slipping out the far side into a catering truck, and transferring to another military transport. This was all done due to a credible assassination threat from Iran, and as our own Sam J. reported earlier, CNN's Jake Tapper took great offense that White House staffers and reporters were left on Trump's death jet.
The story: Iran had a serious plot to kill the president while he was overseas.
Media headlines: OMG Secret Service prioritized protecting the president and not every member of the press who was tagging along.
Reporters seem shocked to learn that the Secret Service's job is to protect the president and not all the press that travels with him.
So the USSS thought the threat against the president was strong enough to surreptitiously remove him from AF1.
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) August 11, 2026
And then proceeded to let the plane full of White House staffers and reporters take off and fly back to the US.
The job of government staffers and journalists is not to serve as decoys when there’s a credible threat requiring the primary to surreptitiously be exfiltrated from the vehicle. https://t.co/qRIYx6vwgp
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) August 11, 2026
Many reporters use themselves as decoys all the time because they hope we mistake them for actual journalists instead of the propagandists they really are.
It's "stunning to think that all those on the [regular] plane were sort of a decoy, and were not told that the president wasn't on board, and that the deception was continued even after he was safely returned to Washington. And that's hard for me to understand." —@davidaxelrod pic.twitter.com/V0TWp3fUkr
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 11, 2026
So the reporters were left on a plane that the White House knew was being credibly targeted with threats serious enough that they removed the president?
— Sam Stein (@samstein) August 11, 2026
Also, what food was on the catering truck?
An argument could be made that the regime would have no interest in taking out many of the "journalists" who are parroting Iranian state media in the U.S. and helping spread their propaganda.
Veteran Pentagon correspondent @bstarrreports: "If it was not safe for the president to be on that flight, how was it safe for the media to be on that flight?" pic.twitter.com/5E0kXNlREo
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 12, 2026
Watching "journalists" find out in real time that the Secret Service prioritizes the president over reporters has been amazing.
You'll also notice that nobody above mentioned this:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were among those who remained on the AF1 that was used as a decoy after secret Trump swap-- via @Kevinliptakcnn https://t.co/FsxVrN3tme
— Alejandra Jaramillo (@AlejandraJMillo) August 12, 2026
Next up Tapper and the rest will be reporting, "yeah, but Rubio and Bessent both had parachutes and reporters didn't."
