Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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President Donald Trump secretly left Turkey on a third U.S. military aircraft last month after publicly boarding the older Air Force One, part of a security operation prompted by an Iranian-linked threat.

Trump had arrived in Ankara for the NATO summit aboard the newer Boeing 747-8 donated by Qatar. Before leaving July 8, he said he would switch to the older presidential jet “for old time’s sake” and boarded that aircraft in front of cameras.

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