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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

President Donald Trump's reported secret escape from Air Force One amid fears of an Iranian assassination attempt sparked a furious online backlash Monday, with critics accusing the White House of leaving journalists and staff aboard what was described as a "decoy" aircraft.

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Trump Used Own Staff as Decoy During Iranian Assassination Threat Donald Trump let the press pool and some of his staff think he was on Air Force One, while really he had been smuggled in a catering cart onto a different plane.

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-- Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 11:52 AM · Aug 11, 2026

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Fat bald pedo coward

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-11 11:14 AM | Reply

Was Trump wearing his general's uniform when this was going on?

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-11 11:24 AM | Reply

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-11 03:14 PM | Reply

*** Iran Knew of Details of Trumpf's Visit to Ankara ***

"The Iranian threat that prompted Dummkopf Trumpf's secret Air Force One swap last month emerged as he was heading into his last day at the NATO summit in Turkey on 8 July.

According to two US officials with knowledge of the threat, US intelligence picked up multiple streams of information. They knew that there was a specific threat of a surface-to-air missile against Air Force One, meaning whichever plane was carrying the president, and that someone in the vicinity of the NATO summit had been spotted with a shoulder-fired missile. And the Iranians knew specifically where Mr. Trumpf was staying in Ankara, including which floor of the building.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence related to the threat.

The information was deemed sufficiently credible to lead Mr. Trumpf and senior members of his junta to engage in an extraordinary decoy effort to get him out of Turkey. He boarded the older Air Force One in front of the cameras, which he had announced he would be taking "for old time's sake," before sneaking off in an airport catering container and taking a military jet out of the country.

Dummkopf Trumpf has been the target of Iranian plots in the past. He was grazed by a would-be assassin's bullet while campaigning in Butler, PA in 2024 and targeted by another armed man at his Florida golf course later that year. Those two assassination attempts were unrelated to the Iranian threats.

But a man was convicted in connection with a murder-for-hire plot against Mr. Trumpf that was uncovered by the Biden administration. That plot was said to be led by Iranians, using a proxy force."

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Lots of people in NYC knew where Benjamin Netanyahu was staying for UNGA last year, causing the Israeli Shin Bet to make different arrangements for his sulfuric visit next month.

If someone was spotted near the NATO summit with a MANPADS weapon, the Turkish security services would have found him/her by now.

Let's see if the TNP makes an arrest soon or they request the extradition of someone from Iran or elsewhere.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-12 02:06 AM | Reply

I'm going to presume that it's up to the Secret Service to take these decisions, not Donald Trump, although it's well known that Trump is a clinical narcissist who thinks of nobody but himself and is quite capable of shoving anything or anybody out of this way to save himself.

Of course, he could have arranged some excuse to keep the Old Air Force One on the ground until it was announced that he was safely back in U.S. Airspace but that would be expecting a lot from someone with Trump's voluminous mental flaws.

#5 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-08-12 05:45 AM | Reply

Oh curses. Foiled again!

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-08-12 05:48 AM | Reply

Well, don't forget, we "decapitated" their leadership, perhaps if the Iranians had killed a lot of Trump's staff, including Rubio...
Buy also yeah, if I were in the press on that plane, with kids and responsibilities and all, I would be might pissed off. If there is a danger, give the press the chance to opt out of the flight.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-12 06:27 AM | Reply

The bloated orange chomo uses EVERYONE for his own corrupt desires.

Children that he raped
Taxpayers
One after another lawyer
Wives
Voters
Congress
Charities
Contractors
Employees
Banks

Everyone and everything.

He is the product of two sociopathic parents who raised a child that never faced any consequences, skated through life with out ever having to face the consequences of his actions.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-08-12 07:33 AM | Reply

He knew he was being targeted, He warned no one, He sent them all to be slaughtered in his place,
Then he hid in a food locker and snuck on another plane,
There is your "courageous" leader, Sacrifices everyone else while he slithers around out of harms way

#9 | Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2026-08-12 08:02 AM | Reply

-George Washington led the American military in our War for Independence.

-Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies in the Civil War.

-George H.W. Bush flew combat missions as a Navy pilot in World War II.

-Donald Trump hid in an airplane catering cart in the Iran war.

#10 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-08-12 08:03 AM | Reply

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