{"id":77306,"date":"2026-08-12T04:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/trump-plays-down-air-force-one-plane-switch-as-criticism-grows-over-decoy-passengers-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T04:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:55:57","slug":"trump-plays-down-air-force-one-plane-switch-as-criticism-grows-over-decoy-passengers-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/trump-plays-down-air-force-one-plane-switch-as-criticism-grows-over-decoy-passengers-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump plays down Air Force One plane switch as criticism grows over \u2018decoy\u2019 passengers \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says Secret Service wanted him on \u2018different plane\u2019 due to threat as Democrats call for congressional briefing<\/p>\n<p>Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump said he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a \u201cdifferent plane\u201d due to a threat that he insisted didn\u2019t scare him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/12\/donald-trump-air-force-one-switch-politics-primaries-midterm-elections-results-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says Secret Service wanted him on \u2018different plane\u2019 due to threat as Democrats call for congressional briefing Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. President Donald Trump said he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a &#8230; <a title=\"Trump plays down Air Force One plane switch as criticism grows over \u2018decoy\u2019 passengers \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/trump-plays-down-air-force-one-plane-switch-as-criticism-grows-over-decoy-passengers-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump plays down Air Force One plane switch as criticism grows over \u2018decoy\u2019 passengers \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}