2026-08-12T17:40:53.615Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/politics/trump-lies-plane-switch
唐纳德·特朗普总统周二晚间证实了《华盛顿邮报》、CNN等媒体的报道，称他上月在土耳其因安全威胁秘密更换了专机。
“我猜当时确实有个威胁，”他对记者说，“我没过多追问此事。”
当被问及特勤局和军方要求他换机时，他补充道：“我只能照他们说的做。他们是为了安全着想，我必须听从他们的指令。”
但这一证实清楚表明，即便 immediate 危险已经解除，特朗普和白宫当时都对这一情况撒了谎。
当时不公开换机的内情尚且情有可原——尽管许多人会认为，让留在“空军一号”上的记者和行政官员在不知情的情况下充当诱饵，而特朗普乘坐小型军用专机离开，这已经突破了为保护总统可接受的行为边界。但特朗普和白宫的所作所为远不止为了实施保护性伪装而撒谎这么简单。他们还 outright 否认存在任何安全威胁。
他们是在首次有报道称特朗普将使用他的 legacy 版“空军一号”——而非卡塔尔赠送的翻新新专机——是出于安全顾虑时，作出上述否认的。
在该报道首次曝出之前，特朗普曾在社交媒体上宣称，他7月8日更换总统专机“只是为了怀旧”，并将本应作为“空军一号”投入使用的卡塔尔赠送的新专机先行送往英国，“以便让我们伟大的军事英雄们有机会领略我们空军机队中这款漂亮的新成员”。
之后特朗普从土耳其飞往英国（我们现在知道，他乘坐的是第三架小型专机），随后登上新“空军一号”返回美国。他在接受记者采访时公然否认存在安全威胁。
“你是说当时没有安全顾虑？”一名记者问道。
“没错，没错。怎么会有呢？”特朗普回应道。
当被问及是否存在“其他任何问题”时，他说：“没有。”
当记者们持续追问时，他多次回避了问题。
但不止特朗普一人如此。
白宫通讯主任史蒂文·张（Steven Cheung）当时发表了一份颇为隐晦的声明，为卡塔尔赠送的新“空军一号”的安全性能辩护。
但随后在社交媒体上，他猛烈抨击了MS NOW的一名记者，该记者曾报道称特朗普更换至 legacy 版专机，是因为担心卡塔尔赠送的新专机的安全能力“无法安全应对与伊朗不断升级的冲突”。
他将该报道斥为“完全的假新闻”，并称该记者“根本不知道自己在说什么”。但几周后，白宫宣布将进一步加强新“空军一号”的安保措施，这已经让他的这番言论不攻自破。特朗普本人也证实，该专机正在“进行全方位升级”。
而如今，总统本人证实了他更换专机是因为受到威胁。
这一新披露的信息也严重动摇了特朗普从土耳其返回几天后就伊朗军事能力发表的言论。
7月13日，他在福克斯新闻节目中宣称伊朗“整个军事力量都已不复存在”。
“他们什么都没有了，”他补充道，“他们没有海军，没有空军，一切都没了。他们的防空系统也没了。”
但现在我们知道，就在五天前，特朗普还曾因担心伊朗有能力在土耳其上空袭击“空军一号”，而被迫两次更换专机。
CNN记者凯文·利普塔克（Kevin Liptak）周三报道称，一名知情人士表示，当时的威胁涉及肩扛式导弹——这是一种具体到足以让官员们担心的威胁：如果特朗普乘坐任何一款“空军一号”专机，他的生命都将面临巨大风险。
这并非特朗普有关伊朗军事能力的言论首次被现实事件打脸。他一贯将德黑兰描述为军事上已被削弱，但伊朗仍在继续作战，延长了冲突时长。冲突初期，特朗普和国防部长皮特·赫格斯瑟（Pete Hegseth）曾宣称美国和以色列可以自由出入伊朗领空——但随后就有两架美军战机被击落。
总统有关伊朗以及战争进程的诸多广泛声明也都站不住脚。他此前保证外交协议即将达成，以及伊朗已经同意关键让步的说法，同样如此。
这场战争一团糟，而且极不受欢迎。而本届政府不断让美国人有理由怀疑其就这场战争发表的几乎所有言论。
The Trump White House flat-out lied about his secret plane switch
2026-08-12T17:40:53.615Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/politics/trump-lies-plane-switch
President Donald Trump late Tuesday confirmed reporting from the Washington Post, CNN and others that he secretly switched planes in Turkey last month because of a security threat.
“I guess there was a threat out there,” he told reporters. “I didn’t really ask too much about it.”
The president added of the Secret Service and military telling him to switch planes: “I just have to do what they say. They go for safety, and I have to do what they say.”
But the confirmation makes it clear that both Trump and the White House lied about the situation, even after the immediate danger had passed.
It’s one thing not to disclose the ruse in real time — though many would argue that allowing the reporters and administration staff that remained on Air Force One to effectively serve as unwitting decoys, while Trump flew on a smaller military jet, stretches the bounds of what’s acceptable to protect the president. But Trump and the White House went further than just lying to perpetuate a protective ruse. They also denied there was a security threat at all.
They did so when it was first reported that Trump would use his legacy Air Force One — rather than the new, retrofitted one he got as a gift from Qatar — due to security concerns.
Before that story first broke, Trump claimed on social media that he was swapping presidential aircrafts on July 8 “for old time’s sake” and sending the new Qatari-gifted plane meant to be used as Air Force One to the United Kingdom ahead of him “in order to give our Great Military Heroes a chance to appreciate our beautiful new addition to the Air Force Fleet.”
After Trump flew from Turkey to the UK (on what we now know was that third smaller plane) and then re-boarded the new Air Force One for the leg back to the United States, he spoke to reporters and flatly denied a security threat.
“You’re saying there wasn’t a security concern?” a reporter asked.
“No. No. Why would there be?” Trump responded.
Asked if there were “any other issue,” he said: “No.”
When reporters kept asking, he repeatedly deflected.
But it wasn’t just Trump.
White House communications director Steven Cheung issued a somewhat oblique statement at the time defending the security capabilities of the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One.
But then on social media, he ripped into a reporter from MS NOW who had reported the switch to the legacy plane was due to “concerns” about the new Qatari-gifted plane’s security capability “to safely manage a rapidly escalating conflict with Iran.”
His dismissal of that reporting as “complete fake news” and his statement that the reporter “has no idea what she is talking about” were already undermined by the news a couple weeks later that the White House was moving to further secure the new Air Force One. Trump himself confirmed that the plane was being “maxed out.”
And now the president is confirming that he switched planes because of a threat.
The new revelations also sharply undercut what Trump said about Iran’s military capabilities just a few days after returning from Turkey
Appearing on Fox News on July 13, he claimed that Iran’s “entire military is gone.”
“They got nothing,” he added. “They have no Navy. They have no Air Force. It’s all gone. Their anti-aircraft is gone.”
But now we know that, just five days earlier, Trump was forced to switch planes — twice, in fact — because of fears that Iran was capable of striking Air Force One over Turkey.
CNN’s Kevin Liptak reported Wednesday that a person familiar with the matter said the threat involved a shoulder-fired missile — a specific enough threat that officials feared Trump’s life would be at enormous risk if he flew on either version of Air Force One.
This isn’t the only time that Trump’s claims about Iran’s capabilities have been undercut by real-world events. He’s routinely cast Tehran as militarily crippled, but it keeps fighting and prolonging the war. And early in the conflict, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed the United States and Israel had free rein over Iran’s skies — before two US jets were shot down.
Many of the president’s broader claims about Iran and how the war has played out have also fallen apart. As have his assurances that a deal was right around the corner and that Iran had already agreed to key concessions.
The war is a mess — and an unpopular one at that. And the administration keeps giving Americans reason to doubt pretty much everything it says about it.
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