Remember when President Trump was in Turkey and there was a credible Iranian threat to assassinate him? The media traveling with Trump managed to make the story about themselves of course. That happened after the president was put on a separate plane while reporters and a couple White House Cabinet members stayed on the plane that the press thought Trump was still aboard.
The media's reaction — or should I say overreaction — led some to sarcastically refer to the flight reporters were on as "The Death Jet."
The picture that some "journalists" painted about the experience would make some people think they'd just barely survived a World War I dogfight high above the Western Front.
Reporters who were in Turkey with Trump back in America on CNN relaying stories about their experience on the "decoy plane": pic.twitter.com/vZ6awI2AVK
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) August 13, 2026
Sure enough, Netflix came along and thought those stories might make for riveting streaming on their platform.
This July, while flying back from a NATO summit in Turkey, President Trump slipped off Air Force One in a catering truck and secretly boarded a different aircraft — leaving traveling reporters to fly on, unaware the president was no longer with them.
— Netflix (@netflix) September 1, 2026
Instadocs: The Decoy Plane,… pic.twitter.com/iuADnXxMoV
Jim Acosta wasn't even there but I'd bet my car that he gets interviewed in the special.
Are you going to talk about how other presidents did the exact same thing, or nah?
— Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) September 1, 2026
Yeah, I'm certainly not expecting "actually this is not at all unprecedented" to be covered much if at all in this particular show.
Hahahahahahahaha they made a documentary just so the journos can tell their war stories about a plane ride where nothing happened. https://t.co/isOVO7rQ5w
— Parker Thayer (@ParkerThayer) September 1, 2026
Brian Williams was made for this moment and he missed out on it.
I might watch (so you don't have to) but only to document some of the most egregious examples of self-aggrandizement from self-described journalists.
