During a NATO news conference, President Trump says he's "No. 1 on the kill list for Iran" and addresses questions about why he was returning home on the legacy Air Force One instead of the new presidential jet.
One thing was clear from President Donald Trump’s appearance at the NATO summit in recent days: He believes Iran wants him dead.
"I'm No. 1 on the kill list for Iran," the president told reporters Wednesday. "I like being number one on TikTok better."
Trump returned to the subject repeatedly throughout the summit — with a level of candidness that might seem unusual for any other president.
A new report suggests U.S. officials may have had fresh intelligence to support concerns about the threat: the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Israel recently shared intelligence with the United States indicating Iran had developed a new plan to assassinate Trump.
The report also adds new context to questions surrounding Trump's decision to switch from the interim Air Force One to one of the legacy VC-25A aircraft during his return from the NATO summit. The White House has not said whether the reported intelligence played any role in that decision.
Trump flew to the summit in Turkey, which borders Iran, aboard the new Air Force One, a retrofitted Boeing 747 donated by Qatar, but switched to one of the older Boeing VC-25A aircraft that have served as Air Force One for more than three decades for the first leg of his trip home, from Ankara to Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom.
Bill Gage, a former Secret Service special agent who traveled on dozens of presidential and vice presidential foreign trips, told Fox News Digital he had "never seen a plane switch up" in the middle of an overseas visit.
Trump said the newer aircraft was instead flown ahead of him to Royal Air Force Mildenhall, UK, so U.S. troops could tour it.
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