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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Travel pool note #30 // Wheels down + gaggle 🛬✈️
We are wheels down at JBA at 1:12 a.m.
POTUS came back shortly after takeoff, 11:31 p.m. local time in the UK, and gaggled with us for about 15 minutes. Keeping this brief, as we are told it was broadcast live, and it will be 6.5 hours old by the time we land, but some highlights below:
What was the security concern that caused us to change planes?
“We sent this one in so that the Air Force Base here, it was in the same exact line, so you saw, did you see the picture? … There are hundreds of people out there,” he said, referencing a printout White House staff had brought us before the gaggle of his Truth Social post, of service members with the plane. “So they came a little bit earlier. We switched planes.”
So you’re saying there wasn’t a security concern?
“No, no.”
No issues?
“No, no, except we sent it a little early. Same line, going back. We sent it a little bit early so we could let them see it the base, the whole base came out and saw the plane.”
Do you know why the had us close our window blinds?
"Well, yeah, because you’re probably on a dangerous flight because of the sleaze bags that we have to deal with."
So you think that Iran was possibly thinking of trying
"They asked you to close your windows, they probably feel that way. They didn’t ask me to close mine, but if they did, I would’ve done it. No, these are sick people. So I could see something like that. I didn’t know they did that, but I could see something like that."
Were you aware of any credible threat by Iran against Air Force One?
“Well, I have a threat all the time. I’m number one on their list, before you. But if I go, you go. Right? Perhaps someday you want to change professions."
On new Iran strikes: