一名熟悉安保部署的消息人士称，上月特朗普在土耳其策划秘密换机行动，从大型总统专机悄悄转移至小型军用飞机，几名贴身心腹陪同他一同搭乘该机；多名内阁官员则留在老式空军一号充当诱饵，全程未与总统同行。
随特朗普登上小型军机的贴身幕僚包括：总统行政助理娜塔莉・哈普（长期全程陪同特朗普出访）、白宫副幕僚长丹・斯卡维诺，以及白宫椭圆形办公室主管沃尔特・诺塔（同样频繁随总统出行）。
国防部长皮特・赫格塞思和特朗普一同搭乘从安卡拉起飞的 C－32A 小型行政专机；国务卿马尔科・卢比奥、财政部长斯科特・贝森特、副幕僚长斯蒂芬・米勒则留在老式大型总统专机上。
知情人士表示，美方紧急制定这套隐秘换机方案，根源是收到确切情报：有肩扛式防空导弹瞄准总统专机。该威胁出现在上月土耳其北约峰会最后一天。
情报细节十分具体，美方官员判断，无论搭乘老式空军一号，还是特朗普出访时乘坐的卡塔尔赠款改装专机离境，特朗普的生命都会面临极高风险。
消息人士拒绝透露情报来源，但称此次威胁可信度极高，关键原因是伊朗方面精准掌握了特朗普在土耳其的全部行程细节。特朗普此次下榻土耳其首都安卡拉市中心一家连锁高端酒店，多次往返酒店与峰会会场，行踪完全暴露。
军方、特勤局官员在短短数小时内敲定整套转移方案：利用航空配餐卡车掩护特朗普换乘另一架军机撤离。随特朗普赴土耳其的高官包含卢比奥、贝森特、赫格塞思、参谋长联席会议主席丹・凯恩上将，但并非所有人都能跟随总统撤离。
CNN 现场影像分析显示，总统车队抵达停机坪前，安卡拉机场工作人员就已将航空配餐卡车停靠在空军一号机身侧面。
特朗普登上老式专机后，配餐卡车货舱放下，车辆驶离大型飞机，停靠到 C－32A 小型军机旁。
当地时间晚 8 点 44 分左右，这架没有总统的老式空军一号率先起飞，直接从搭载特朗普的小型军机上空飞过；一分钟后，小型军机滑出停机位准备起飞。
美国官员透露，换机时，卢比奥、贝森特与其他白宫工作人员、军方人员、随行媒体记者全都留在这架蓝白配色的波音 747 老式专机上。 机上绝大多数人事先完全不知道总统早已不在机内。
所有飞机均降落在英国一处军用机场后，现场视频拍到赫格塞思、诺塔、哈普陪同特朗普，从老式空军一号步行登上卡塔尔赠送的全新总统专机，启程返回华盛顿。
特朗普淡化周密避险计划
周二，特朗普承认整套换机避险方案属实，但刻意淡化这场周密的安保调包行动。
周二特朗普从俄亥俄州返回安德鲁斯联合基地，面对记者采访时表示：“我完全听从特勤局和军方安排。他们要求我换乘另一架航班、另一架飞机，两机安全等级一致，既然他们坚持，我就照做，一切听他们指挥。”
特朗普称，工作人员并未向他透露太多必须秘密换机的细节，还表示自己对离开土耳其时可能遭遇肩扛式导弹袭击一事毫不在意。
他说：“说实话我什么都不担心，不管是什么威胁，我的态度就是无所谓。”
北约峰会最后一天，特朗普全程多次主动向记者提及针对自己的伊朗暗杀威胁。美国政府长期预警，伊朗可能为报复 2020 年特朗普下令无人机击杀伊朗高级将领苏莱曼尼一事，伺机刺杀特朗普。
特朗普出访土耳其前夕，伊朗民众在已故最高领袖阿亚图拉・哈梅内伊的葬礼上集会，高呼处死特朗普。哈梅内伊在美以联合对伊朗开战初期遇袭身亡。
伊朗保守派教士、议员哈米德・拉塞伊在特朗普停留土耳其期间发文，主张直接对其发动导弹打击：“我的提议是，如今这个卑劣的特朗普近在咫尺，正在土耳其出席北约峰会，我们应当毫不犹豫、公开动用导弹打击特朗普与一众战犯在土耳其的下榻地点。”
峰会结束后 CNN 报道，以色列向美方移交情报，显示伊朗近期制定了全新刺杀特朗普的计划。
但当时部分美方官员对这份以色列情报持怀疑态度，认为这份情报一定程度上是以色列用来左右特朗普对伊政策的手段。
Several close personal aides joined Trump on his secret flight from Turkey， source says
Close personal aides joined President Donald Trump aboard a smaller aircraft flying out of Turkey last month after he snuck out of a larger plane， according to a person familiar with the arrangements， while several Cabinet members remained on the legacy Air Force One that flew without him．
The aides with Trump on that smaller plane included Natalie Harp， an executive assistant who regularly accompanies Trump when he travels； Dan Scavino， a deputy White House chief of staff； and Walt Nauta， the director of Oval Office operations who also frequently travels with the president．
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also traveled with the president on the smaller C－32A that took off from Ankara， while Secretary of State Marco Rubio， Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller stayed on the larger plane．
The scramble to devise thefurtive planto sneak Trump out of the country on an alternate jet was prompted by a specific threat to Air Force One by a shoulder－fired missile， according to the person familiar with the matter． The threat emerged on the final day of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey．
The threat was specific enough that officials feared Trump’s life would be at enormous risk if he flew out of the country on either the legacy Air Force One plane or theQatar－donated jetthat he used to fly to the summit．
The person declined to say where information about the threat originated， but said it was believed to be serious in part because of how specifically the Iranians seemed to know details of Trump’s arrangements in Turkey． Trump spent one night in Ankara， the Turkish capital， at a luxury chain hotel downtown， and traveled several times between the hotel and the summit venues．
Officials， including from the military and Secret Service， put together the plan to move Trump to another plane by way of a catering truck to fly out of the country within hours． Trump had been accompanied to Turkey by several senior officials， including Rubio， Bessent， Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen． Dan Caine． But not all would join the president when he left．
Avideo analysisby CNN showed officials at the Ankara Airport began positioning the catering truck at the side of Air Force One before his motorcade arrived to the tarmac．
After Trump boarded the plane， the catering truck’s container was lowered and it drove away from the bigger plane and pulling up to the smaller C－32A．
The larger plane， now without the president on board， took off at roughly 8：44 p．m． local time， passing right past the smaller plane with Trump inside． The smaller plane taxied away a minute later．
When it came time to switch planes， both Rubio and Bessent remained behind on the blue and white Boeing 747 along with other White House staffers， military personnel and members of the press， according to US officials．
Most of the passengers on the plane were unaware that Trump was not aboard．
After all the planes had landed at a military airbase in Britain， Hegseth， Nauta and Harp are all seen on video alongside Trump as he walked from the old Air Force One jet to the new Qatari plane for the flight home to Washington．
Trump downplays elaborate scheme
On Tuesday， Trump confirmed the broad contours of the scheme but downplayed the nature of the ruse．
“I just follow what they’d like to do． So I go by Secret Service． And the military． They wanted me to go on a different flight， a different plane， equal safety， but they wanted me to do it， so I do it． I do what they say，” Trump told reporters as he landed at Joint Base Andrews from Ohio on Tuesday．
Trump said he was not given many details about what necessitated the clandestine maneuvering and professed to be unbothered about the possibility of a shoulder－fired missile attack during his departure from Turkey．
“I don’t worry about anything， to be honest，” he said． “Whatever it is， you know my attitude？ Whatever．”
Trump had appeared preoccupied with Iranian threats on his life over the course of his final day at the NATO summit， raising the issue repeatedly with reporters． The US government has long warned that Iran may try to kill Trump in retaliation for the 2020 drone strike he ordered which killed a top Iranian general， Qasem Soleimani．
In the days before Trump’s visit to Turkey， crowds of Iranians called for Trump’s death during funeral proceedings for the slain Supreme Leader， Ayatollah Ali Khamenei， who was killed at the start of the US－Israeli war against Iran．
Hamid Rasaei， a conservative cleric and member of Iran’s parliament， wrote when Trump was in Turkey that the US president should be targeted while in the region： “My suggestion is this： Now that the bastard Trump is within our reach and has come to Turkey for the NATO summit， we should officially and without hesitation target the location where Trump and several other criminals are staying in Turkey with a missile．”
CNN reported in the days following the summit that Israel had sharedintelligencewith the United States that Iran had recently devised a new plan to assassinate Trump．
But some officials at the time cast skepticism on the Israeli intelligence， suggesting the report was viewed — in part — as piece of a broader Israeli effort to influence Trump’s decision making on Iran．
