President Donald Trump is reported to have shifted to a smaller military aircraft while Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stayed on a decoy flight after leaving a NATO summit in Turkey, according to a senior U.S. official. The report says the movement occurs in the context of a security response to an Iranian threat.
The outlets describe the same core sequence: Rubio and Bessent continue on what is characterized as an effectively decoy plane, while Trump takes a different route by changing aircraft. The Washington Times attributes the account to a senior U.S. official and frames it as part of protective measures following the threat.
Other coverage provided in the prompt largely repeats the same claim, without adding distinct new details. Across the sources, the main differences are limited to wording and the depth of description rather than the underlying events.
