Trump used his staff as bait

[ImStillMags Mags]

The most insane part of the Trump catering cart story isn't that he hid in a food truck. It's that he used a plane full of reporters and staff as a decoy against a credible threat on his own life.

Think about that for a second.

The Secret Service comes to you and says there is a real, specific plot to kill you tonight, and the danger is the plane. You have two choices. Keep everyone on the ground until it's safe. Or send the plane up anyway, with other people on it, so the killers aim at the wrong target while you slip out on a second aircraft.

He chose the second one. On purpose. As the plan.

In Ankara last month, Trump climbed the stairs of the old Air Force One in full view of the cameras, waved, and slipped back out a side door. A catering truck, the kind that loads meal carts before takeoff, raised its container to the far side of the jet, took him aboard, and drove off across the tarmac.

Airport footage shows it vanish from view for about forty seconds before reaching a smaller military plane. He flew to Britain on that one with Pete Hegseth.

The 747 he'd posed on took off without him. A jumbo jet sent up into the sky as bait.

And it wasn't only the press on it. The New York Times says Secretary of State Marco Rubio was on that plane. So was Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. So was Stephen Miller. So was Steven Cheung, the communications director who would later put out the statement defending the whole thing.

More than a hundred people, told nothing, sent up as cover.

Now the part that should end the argument. Asked about it afterward, Trump admitted the plane he left them on was the one at greater risk, because that, he figured, was the one they'd go for.

So he knew. He looked at the aircraft he believed was more likely to be shot out of the sky, loaded it with his own cabinet and a cabin full of journalists, told them to close their shades, and walked to the safer plane.

Picture being on it. You think the president is forty feet up the aisle. He isn't. A Secret Service agent keeps coming back to make sure your shade stays down. Politico's Megan Messerly filed her note that night: wheels up from Ankara, shades closed, see you on the other side. She didn't know she was the decoy.

Senator Richard Blumenthal is now demanding a congressional briefing, asking what anyone did to protect the people left on the plane that was judged too dangerous for the president. The White House has no answer.

When the press finally got to ask why they'd flown blind in a sealed cabin, Trump grinned. They were on a dangerous flight, he said, because of the sleazebags he has to deal with. Then came the line.

"I'm number one on their list, before you. But if I go, you go. Right?"

Except he didn't go. He was never going. He was on the other plane the whole time.

[Lobo]

In ultra-narcissist Trump's mind, all other people exist solely to benefit him in some way. Their own deaths are meatningless.

The Cosmos came into being when Donald was born, and it will cease to exist when he dies. Be prepared for it...

[BEZARK]

Heck, I’d happily use his team as decoys.,