Decoys to hide presidents are common - but elaborate Trump ruse was different level - BBC News

Deceptions of varying complexity are often used to thwart potential threats, former Secret Service agents say.

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Watch: Was Donald Trump smuggled out of Air Force One in a catering truck?

On 8 July, US President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in plain sight of television cameras as he departed the Nato summit in Turkey.

But when the mighty Boeing aircraft left Ankara, the president had reportedly already been secretly spirited away via a catering truck to a C-32A, a military version of the Boeing 757, which flew the president to RAF Mildenhall in the UK.

Those left on board were unwitting decoys and had no indication that Trump was no longer travelling with them.