US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat

President Trump secretly departed Turkey on a military C-32A aircraft hidden in an airport catering cart, rather than the Air Force One he was publicly seen boarding, due to a credible Iranian assassination threat during a NATO summit in Ankara last month. The elaborate deception operation concealed the president's actual location from journalists and some White House staff, with the administration falsely claiming he had departed on the older jumbo jet. A similar security tactic was previously used by President Bill Clinton in 2000 when flying to Pakistan.