Many Democrats and reporters continue to go full Jim Acosta over the Secret Service's move to protect President Trump while in Turkey. Trump was taken to a different plane while some Cabinet members and reporters remained on the original plane.
Following last month’s NATO summit in Turkey, President Trump boarded Air Force One in front of news cameras before being secretly transferred to a smaller plane, fooling reporters and the public. The decoy operation aimed to protect Trump due to security threats from nearby Iran, including potential missile risks targeting the presidential aircraft, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
The president was carried between planes in a catering truck and raised to plane level on the far side from where he had boarded. High-ranking officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio as well as reporters boarded Air Force One. The operation wasn’t publicly disclosed until the Washington Post reported it late Monday.
The press and Dems (as always, pardon the redundancy) continue to give the impression that they were left as sitting ducks when in fact the plane they were on had a fighter jet escort back to the UK.
However, the media still can't sensationalize what happened enough:
Stephen Miller declined to answer questions after his TV hit this afternoon, including whether he was aware that President Trump wasn't on Air Force One as they flew back from Turkey. pic.twitter.com/TgDHUTDESC
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 13, 2026
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CNN and others will be chewing on this one for quite a while.
CNN going full MISSING PLANE again on another vanity story literally no one cares about except them. https://t.co/lkc3SvoO9f
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 13, 2026
They are determined to make everybody care!
Democrats are of course trying to help:
I still can't get over this. Trump and his top aides like Hegseth knew of a credible SAM threat to shoot down AF1 and they didn't warn the other passengers on the jet. They just let them take off as a decoy. https://t.co/HRurJbwkps
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) August 12, 2026
Should traveling reporters have been made to take a bus and then a boat back to the U.S.?
Can you at least pretend like you were once in the military and ask yourself what the threat sources and national security would have been if that plane didn’t take off? You literally have no idea.
— Wade Miller (@WadeMiller) August 13, 2026
You don’t seem to understand what “decoy” means.
— Justin Redalen (@Justinredalen) August 12, 2026
Also, where were your complaints when Bill Clinton did the exact same thing?
The Wall Street Journal has a piece that pours cold water on journalists and Dems who continue to get the vapors over what happened in Turkey:
Sitting presidents have duped the public on their whereabouts for over a century in a series of stunts involving trains, battleships, planes and yachts. 🔗: https://t.co/zBprdthvIR pic.twitter.com/jMZamRc51I
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 13, 2026
As usual, the lefty media will take something that other presidents have done and try to make it unique to Trump.
"But this time it's different because we hate him" https://t.co/rgXDhFUwUQ
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) August 13, 2026
Also the media prove continually why the White House can't share details with them.
don’t forget that publicizing this closes-off this particular method of using a decoy to foil the next potential assassination attempt
— sonch (@soncharm) August 13, 2026
And yet they TDS media and other Democrats just don't care.
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