Curmudgeon Feared Iran Strike!

Trump flew coach.

The U.S. Secret Service and Joint Chief of Staff secretly plotted an escape plan for President Donald J. Trump while he was in Türkiye. While at the NATO summit, the president was supposed to fly on his Qatari gifted Air Force One. The U.S. Secret Service and Vice President JD Vance did not find suitable for him while frustrations were building up back in the United States.

So the president ended up going home on the original Air Force One. However, the Washington Post had reported that a secret transfer of the 80 year old curmudgeon to a smaller military plane was the objective as the Iranians still furious over the Feb. 2026 attacks vowed to take him out.

The elaborate operation took place on July 8 as Trump departed Ankara following a NATO summit and one day after the U.S. renewed military strikes on Iran. While the White House publicly maintained that Trump traveled to Britain aboard the legacy Air Force One — not his gifted Qatari jet — the president was actually aboard an Air Force C-32A, a modified Boeing 757, the Post reported.

Iran has Trump, Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer and Mark Levin targets for assassination.

Iran has considered ways of hurting the U.S. and Israel. They are targeting U.S. audiences with Lego AI and the infrastructure. They have shut down the Strait of Hormuz. That carries 20% of the oil shipments. 

As the Post article details, though, in reality, Trump first boarded the familiar blue-and-white Air Force One on July 8 in view of television cameras. Minutes later, however, Trump and several aides secretly exited through another door and entered an airport catering truck that had been raised to the aircraft.

The truck then transported them to the smaller C-32A, leaving journalists and some White House staff aboard Air Force One unaware that Trump was no longer with them. One U.S. official described the plane carrying the press and staff as a “decoy.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth separately boarded the C-32A and traveled with Trump to Britain, according to the report. The secret flight reportedly used the nondescript call sign “Reach 18,” while the legacy plane carrying reporters and staff eventually appeared on flight trackers as “AF1” despite Trump not being aboard.

The operation was reportedly triggered by a credible Iran-linked threat against Trump or his aircraft amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran. Trump has repeatedly discussed threats against his life from Iran, telling reporters after arriving in Britain that he was “number one” on the country’s “list.”

Trump's new jet is still a security issue.

The White House continued the ruse after Trump arrived in Britain, posting that he had landed “aboard the former Air Force One.” Trump was seen descending from that aircraft before later boarding the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747-8 for the flight back to Washington.

Asked that night why reporters had been ordered to close their window shades before leaving Türkiye, Trump cited the danger posed by U.S. adversaries.

“But if I go, you go. Right?” Trump told reporters. “Perhaps someday you want to change professions.”

The curmudgeon insulted Kaitlan Collins when she pressed him about why Air Force One was delayed and journalists were told to lower shades.

Of course, Israel provided the U.S. this credible threat. It seems like Israel was the reasons to why the U.S. continued its repeated attacks on Iran. 

Iran demands are simple. Pay for the damages, sovereignty of the Strait of Hormuz is under Iran and Oman, apologize to the victims, end all sanctions, leave their nuclear program alone, quit calling them terrorists and pull U.S. forces away from their sovereignty. 

The U.S. refuses the demands.