Trump is telling the press that the CIA decided to sneak him off AF1, and he just did what they told him to do. This is apparently another total Trump lie.
The CIA didn’t take the Israeli report of a threat very seriously. Rubio was aware and decided that AF1 was not in great danger, so he got on the plane.
But Trump, afraid for his life, decided that he must not fly on that (to his mind) dangerous plane. He could have just ordered that AF1 be grounded for security’s sake. But no, he opted to put all those people at risk of death just to save his own neck. He meant for AF1 to be a decoy target for Iran missiles. He figured they might all be killed.
Interesting choice of people he chose to sneak off with him: his personal attendants, who would take care of HIM, regardless of strategic choice. He would gladly sacrifice all those others as a decoy, just to save himself.
This mindset is Trump’s ego-centeredness in a nutshell. Throw anyone under the bus just to protect himself. No loyalty to Rubio or Bessent. In fact, Karoline Leavitt was also on the decoy plane, and Facebook accounts are suggesting that she resigned partially because Trump was ready to let her be killed by the Iranians.
Trump’s attitude towards the United States is the same. He’s out to enrich himself, at the expense, and perhaps the demise, of America, or even the world economy. He thought he could get his hands on Iranian oil, at the risk of thousands of lives and the destruction of the world economy. He doesn’t give a damn about oil prices or the American people. He wants the oil, the same way he took and hid Venezuela’s oil (the 13 billion dollars cannot be located at present).
And did you hear his own explanation of why he put all those people at risk? He claimed that his smaller, secret plane was in greater danger than AF1, simply because he was in it. Typical Trump BS, with no meaning or substance. You mean he snuck off AF1 and hid in a catering truck in order to put himself at greater risk? Huh?