Questions I Have After Learning That Trump Was Allegedly Smuggled Out of Air Force One in a Catering Box
We already knew something weird happened with Donald Trump last month in Turkey, even by the already weird standards of this administration. He ordered new military strikes against Iran while in Turkey for a NATO summit—meaning he was unusually close to the fireworks he was creating. The Washington Post first reported this on Monday, and the New York Times corroborated it on Tuesday.
- ▪We already knew something weird happened with Donald Trump last month in Turkey, even by the already weird standards of this administration.
- ▪He ordered new military strikes against Iran while in Turkey for a NATO summit—meaning he was unusually close to the fireworks he was creating.
- ▪The Washington Post first reported this on Monday, and the New York Times corroborated it on Tuesday.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 9 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Watch: Was Trump smuggled out of Air Force One in a catering truck? — BBC News — World
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| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:45:03 +0000 |
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We already knew something weird happened with Donald Trump last month in Turkey, even by the already weird standards of this administration. He ordered new military strikes against Iran while in Turkey for a NATO summit—meaning he was unusually close to the fireworks he was creating. Then, when he left Turkey for the U.K., the official story was cagey and self-contradictory, and involved him supposedly flying on an older Air Force One-designated plane, instead of his brand new, more luxurious Air Force…
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