Overview
- Multiple news reports and the president confirmed that U.S. security officials moved President Trump from the public Air Force One into an Air Force C-32A using an airport catering truck to leave Ankara, Turkey.
- A U.S. official told outlets the move responded to a credible Iran-linked assassination threat that reportedly included concern about a shoulder‑fired missile near the summit.
- Journalists and some White House staff were left aboard the decoy Air Force One and were instructed to lower window shades, which pool dispatches recorded as an unusual security order.
- The White House defended the Qatari‑gifted 747-8 as fitted with high-level security protocols even as reporting has renewed scrutiny of its retrofit work and whether it initially lacked some defensive systems.
- Lawmakers, reporters, and security experts are seeking briefings and possible oversight on who received the threat intelligence, whether reporters and staff were put at risk, and how the C-32A and legacy jet movements were coordinated.