CBS News reports that during a July 8 trip through Turkey, Trump secretly left Air Force One via a catering truck to board a separate military plane, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent remained on the original aircraft, which kept the Air Force One call sign as a decoy.
The two cabinet officials reportedly stayed behind specifically to preserve the presidential line of succession in case anything happened to the decoy plane; White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and communications director Steven Cheung also stayed on the original aircraft, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew with Trump.
Trump told reporters the switch was ordered by the military and Secret Service over an unspecified threat, saying only that he receives "a lot of threats." Members of the press aboard say they were not told they were on a decoy flight, and the White House Correspondents' Association has not commented.
The full dispatch is available from the source below.