Prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight in an extraordinary ruse that involved hiding the president in an airport catering cart, according to reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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    6 days ago

    Is it bad that even though I’m an American and not exactly a full on Iranian supporter…but wouldn’t mind if they successfully assassinated Trump and Vance at all? It would at least be karma for starting this bullshit war in the first place

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      6 days ago

      Nope. I’m with you. Almost feels treasonous to wish our president harm/death, but fuck him and his family.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Hahaha.

    I hope he loves in fear. He did all of that. He ruined the fucking nuclear treaty, he invaded when that went to shit, and now he’s losing a war.

    What a fucking goddamn dumbass. I hope he never rests well again.

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    7 days ago

    "Look, people are asking me about aircraft catering carts. And I tell them, nobody knows catering carts better than me, okay? Nobody!

    ​These carts, they are INCREDIBLE. Absolutely top of the line.

    People come up to me, big flight attendants, strong people, with tears in their eyes, they say, ‘Sir, we put hundreds of sodas in there, the little cans, the snacks, everything, and it still moves so light. Nobody else could design a cart like this’."

    – Trump probably

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      7 days ago

      What’s… funny I guess, is that he doesn’t even really talk like that anymore, because he barely makes it through a sentence now

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    7 days ago

    Are they sure he was hiding in there? Maybe he just went in there to eat in private and just so happened to get wheeled on board the plane. I could see him stuffing himself inside one of those things just so we can nosh on some shrimp away from all the judgy eyes.

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    7 days ago

    Didn’t he survive 2 assasination attempts before without worry, what’s the difference with a mere threat?

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    7 days ago

    Sorry. No way Fatty McRapist is getting into a catering cart. Maybe the back of a catering van. Assuming you bleach it before putting food back in it.

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      7 days ago

      It sounds like it was like a wheeled trolley you’d see in a hotel hallway, but I think it was actually a cargo container of some sort used to load catering cargo on and off the plane. Although I’m not completely dismissing the image of him crouched under a tablecloth being wheeled down the tarmac by a butler concealing an MP5.

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        7 days ago

        They have a scissor lift box truck that the food comes in and then they lift it up to the plane and wheel the carts off. They got JFK’s dead body on air force one the same way.

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      7 days ago

      For a cross-Atlantic flight stocking up AF1 during a Trump term, breaking out the XXXL food truck would be standard procedure.