US President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that the Secret Service and military directed him to use a “different plane” when departing Turkiye last month following a NATO summit, citing safety concerns, Anadolu reports.
“It’s only up to the Secret Service. I just follow what they like to do. So I go by the Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, a different plane, equal safety,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after returning from Ohio.
“They wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say,” he said.
“I guess there was a threat out there. I didn’t really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats,” he added, without elaborating.
“I have a lot of threats. I have a lot of threats that you don’t know about. Any consequential president has a lot of threats. Non-consequential presidents don’t get threatened. And I think that I may be the most consequential president. Nobody’s done more than me in a period of almost six years,” he said.
