Elaborate ruse was used to transport president to military flight from Air Force One to return from NATO meet
Prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight from Turkey last month when the White House said he was flying aboard Air Force One, in an extraordinary ruse that involved hiding the president in an airport catering cart, according to reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times.
The operation took place when Trump was in Ankara for a Nato summit with world leaders, according to the Post. The president reportedly boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet in view of television cameras, and then was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies preflight, a US official told the Post.
An official also confirmed the operation to the New York Times.
61 Comments
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 71 pts · 43d
I'm not buying this. There's no way in hell this fat orange pile of blubber fits in this.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 93 pts · 43d
It's something more like this:

These aren't the actual ones used but the photo in the article only shows one from the back.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 16 pts · 43d
That still seems like a tight squeeze for his fat ass. Maybe with some lube.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 43d
That's what they used the cheese whiz for
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 3 pts · 43d
"Mr president, please stop licking the lube from the walls, we still need to get you out there."
Salvo@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 43d
More like one of these;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrozjmNx5L0
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 43d
Presidential transport's full.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d
LOL. My favorite this week. Kudos!
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 43d
I thought the same thing, but it was an airport catering cart, not an airplane catering cart. I assume that means the big thing those little things are loaded onto.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 43d
Yeah this fat ass ain't a contortionist
Goun@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 43d
I'm imagining this was a prank they played on him, like yo they gonna kill you hide in this thing right here go go go
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 3 pts · 43d
https://youtu.be/x7itNBV1cio?t=39
First thing I thought of when I read the headline.
fonix232@fedia.io · 6 pts · 43d
I mean... we could make him fit...
Almacca@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 43d
Might need to use more than one.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 42d
It might if you used a blender.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 1 pts · 42d
Fat chance. He's quite the fatso. Even in liquid form, he would probably overflow.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 42d
I still think it's worth trying, just to be sure, you know.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d
I have no doubt this is what we were intended to imagine, so we'd click on the link.
leadore@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 43d
So that means they must have thought Iran would shoot his plane down. I guess they considered the poor suckers flying on the Air Force One expendable. I wonder if anyone told them about it.
edit: Oh, per the article the answer is No, of course they didn't:
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 43d
Hope they cleaned it out really well afterward. That's the type of smell that transfers and lingers.
zd9@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 43d
If you read the article they had to burn the cargo hold after because smell of spray-on bronzer and shit was so strong.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d
I did read the article and didnt find any reference to such
zd9@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 43d
whooosh
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
probably had to burn the entire airport.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 43d
too bad they didn't just lock the cart and leave it on the hot tarmac for a couple weeks...
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 43d
At least the stench wouldn't change
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 43d
OMG, we cannot let this man become a martyr. If that means shoving him into a catering cart, then so be it.
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 6 pts · 43d
It's a gloomy thought, but: No matter what happens to him, he will be a martyr to many, and there's precious little we can do about it.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 43d
I hope nearly every outlet starts calling him the worst President in history and just makes that canon. Constant drum beat: "worst President in history, Donald Trump..."
I sure hope the Murc's Law media does not try to Ronnie Raygunize this monster. They should just repeat the mantra "worst President in history" as if it's commonly accepted, just like they often did about Carter ever after he left office, but in this case, it would be far more accurate.
It'd be even better if he were alive to see it and had no FCC to try to squash the media. :) Remember how the right just melted right the fuck down when they'd hear the phrase "former President Trump" during Biden's presidency? I really don't know how they expected the media to label him, but imagine if they start accurately characterizing him, too.
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 3 pts · 43d
My instinct is that the non-rightwing-shill media are never going to be loud and dumb enough to reach his fans, to change the currents set up by the loud and dumb rightwing-shill media outlets.
We would need every news outlet, every pundit, every talking head on the internet to tie him to his failures in a radically simplistic, one-sided, emotional way, 24/7, over and over again for years:
"trump interferes with vaccines for children; why does trump hate America so much?"
"trump wrecks international shipping with outburst of violence; why does trump hate America so much?"
"trump covers up food contamination for political donors; why does trump hate America so much?"
"trump sabotages American farmers with (tariffs / parasites); why does trump hate America so much?"
"trump sabotages American military with (disease / shortages / ridiculous deployment requirements); why does trump hate America so much?"
I'm doubtful that this will be possible.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
I bet we'd all be ready to pay the martyr cost this one time. Cheerfully, even.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d
He's unlikely to go in a way that's publicly verifiable. IMO, that keeps the martyr door chalked wide open. Don't get me wrong: I really don't want to be right about that.
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 43d
Clever if true, but this trick only works once, and now it's out in the open.
All nations contemplating assassinations now:
Noted. If attempting to take out a leader-in-transit, don't just target the Presidential/Royal plane, target the support aircraft and any others that might exchange 'catering carts' on the tarmac as well, in case Dear Leader is stowing away on one of those.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 43d
Honestly not that easy. The US has a ridiculous number of aircraft scattered on bases around the world. Given that Turkey is Nato they had many choices
You'd have hundreds of potential targets maybe more, and if you fail you've just given the person you tried to kill an excuse to start a ground invasion. The US wouldn't win that conflict, but it would cost a lot of lives
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 17 pts · 43d
So the US presidential plane, operated and supported by the best-funded and most technologically advanced air force in the world, isn't safe from Iranian missiles?
It's not the sort of thing an administration would admit to, if that administration actually had American geopolitical interests at heart.
oppy1984@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 43d
This. They just said AF1 is not as safe and secure as we've been told. Even if it's not true and it's actually more secure than we're led to believe, his cowardice just put doubt in the minds of everyone, including the quickly growing list of enemies. And that doubt puts the aircraft and everyone on board in danger going forward.
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 43d
What an Alpha Male move
davidagain@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 43d
Sounds like him. Like most bullies, he's strong on the bravado and weak on the bravery.
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 43d
What? The strongest, smartest, and most fearless president we've ever had hiding in a catering truck? Say it's not so.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 43d
What a little bitch.
And then all the staffers and press got on the plane he thought was being targeted. Fucking coward.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 43d
I wonder how often so-called "normal" world leaders pull Keystone Cops bullshit like this. Seems like the kind of thing you only resort to if things are already going very poorly / stupidly, but it has to happen from time to time. I'm sure the secret service has done some truly wacky capers that have never seen the light of day.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 43d
Man, I bet that cart smelled baaaaaaaad.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 43d
fartshart cartmister_flibble@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 43d
Staffers opening it up like
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 42d
That cart should be labeled as hazardous material from now on.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 43d
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 43d
Clown
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 43d
How did his fat ass even fit?
DementedSociety@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 43d
tTump is fat bitch that shits his pants constantly and was Epsteins best buddy, they raped children together.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 43d
Hey! I just landed and my president was not in the carousel! I think you guys lost my president! I want to speak to your manager!
giantripdrop@piefed.social · 5 pts · 43d
bunnybunny@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 43d
Why the fuck did they let that pussy out.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 43d
I love that for him.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 43d
Meanwhile at home he has army avenger (AA) vehicles on his golf greens just in case.
You'd think someone so near the end would just accept it.
Furbag@pawb.social · 1 pts · 43d
I wish I lived in the timeline where his assassination attempt in Butler made him have a single moment of self reflection where he decided that it just wasn't worth it and he dropped out of the race immediately.
I mean, I really wish I lived in the timeline where we all got to see the pink mist, but I'd trade for the less good outcome at this point.
ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net · 3 pts · 43d
Fucking coward.
Arancello@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 43d
searching for the Taylors Farms menu?
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 42d
Chicken or pasta? Chicken.
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
I hope they sat him right next to the mashed potatoes. (If you read the book his niece wrote you'll get it)
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
they probably just told him it was for security, but wanted to contain his pants-shitting smell so people could breathe. I bet the crew of both planes and the press pool were ecstatic.
ZK686@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 42d
Let me guess, Lemmy and Reddit are happy our President is being threatened.... traitors.