00:00President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday that he skipped out of Air Force One after a
00:06recent summit in Türkiye, because the secret service and the military wanted me to travel
00:11on a different plane due to a threat.
00:15I am guided by the secret service and the military.
00:18They wanted me to take a different flight, a different plane, Trump said, referring to
00:24how he escaped from the presidential plane.
00:27According to the Associated Press, his statements confirmed a report published by
00:32The Washington Post first reported on Monday that Trump hid in a container
00:38airport food service to transfer to another aircraft, while Air Force One,
00:44with White House officials, security and support staff, and journalists on board,
00:49It took off from Türkiye, essentially serving as a decoy in case Iran
00:55carried out a threat of attack considered credible.
00:59So, uh, I go by Secret Service and the military.
01:03They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, uh, equal safety, but they
01:09wanted me to do it, so I do it.
01:11I do what they say.
01:12Why did they want me to do that?
01:15I guess there was a threat out there.
01:16I didn't really ask too much about it.
01:18I get a lot of threats.
01:42Well, this one went over to England, where it was shown to the soldiers.
01:47No, I know, but this one went over to England because the soldiers wanted to see it, and
01:52it stopped, and they showed it to the soldiers, and we did a switch over there, and it was
01:57really as per the military, and I guess I have to do what they say.
02:00Uh, they go for safety, and I have to do what they say.
02:03Why was it too dangerous for you to fly on Air Force One, but not too dangerous for the
02:08I think, actually, the plane that I flew on was at greater risk.
02:12I think it was at greater risk because that would be the plan I think that we, that they
02:16would be more likely to go for.
02:19President, we were you surprised, Mr. President, that the Secret Service is telling you to take
02:24that third plane?
02:25No, not surprised.
02:27I have a lot of threats.
02:29I have a lot of threats that you don't know about.
02:32Any consequential president has a lot of threats.
02:35Non-consequential presidents don't get threatened, and I think that I may be the most consequential
02:42president.
02:43There's nobody who's done more than me in a period of almost six years.
02:48There's nobody.
02:49Were you worried about a shoulder-fired missile?
02:52Uh, I don't worry about anything, to be honest.
02:55Whatever it is.
02:55You know my attitude?
02:56Whatever.
03:01I don't trust Iran.
03:03Why?
03:03Are you saying I trust Iran?
03:05I'm the last person that trusts Iran.
03:07They've lied to me constantly.
03:09We have total control over the Harmoes Strait right now.
03:13They don't have control.
03:14We have total control.
03:15We own it.
03:16And at some point, maybe they'll do something, and then they get blown away.
03:20But we, right now, we're in a very good position.
03:23We have a country that has been the bully of the Middle East for 50 years.
03:29It's really 51, if you think about it, right?
03:31We've been saying 47 for four years.
03:34And they're no longer the bully of the Middle East.
03:36Thank you very much, everybody.
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