{"id":44356,"date":"2026-08-14T12:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=44356"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:57:59","slug":"iran-has-turned-donald-trumps-secret-plane-switch-into-a-bizarre-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=44356","title":{"rendered":"Iran Has Turned Donald Trump\u2019s Secret Plane Switch Into a Bizarre Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Iran\u2019s state media has seized on new details about a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2026\/08\/11\/donald-trump-catering-cart-turkey-flight-iran-threat\/\">covert aircraft swap<\/a>\u00a0involving\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, transforming the security maneuver into a running joke about presidential fear. The meme is about the US president hiding inside a\u00a0<strong>catering truck<\/strong>\u00a0to avoid a perceived Iranian threat.<\/p>\n<p>A presenter on Iranian state television said the incident had become a source of \u201chumiliation\u201d for Donald Trump. \u201cAgain, Trump, with his new scandal, has become the top subject in the U.S. media these days,\u201d the presenter said. \u201cA scandal stemming from fear of Iran\u2019s military power, a power that caused Trump, last month, while returning from Turkey, to secretly switch his plane\u201d (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/irans-state-media-mock-trump-over-airplane-switch-meme-shows-him-hiding-catering-2026-08-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On July 8, Secret Service officials received a credible threat\u00a0reportedly from Israel\u00a0that someone could target Air Force One with a shoulder-fired missile. Agents moved Trump and\u00a0a small team\u00a0into a catering truck, then transferred them to a smaller C-32A jet. Air Force One took off separately with senior staff aboard.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s embassy in South Africa joined the ridicule on X, writing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2026\/08\/12\/donald-trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-control\/\">Trump<\/a> \u201cwill be hidden in a trash can before long.\u201d The post featured a meme of Trump inside a food-filled catering box. The account regularly shares viral content picked up by Iranian state media. Further, it continued to post more memes on Trump\u2019s transfer.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IraninSA\/status\/2087579775518847211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Another one<\/a>\u00a0was posted with the caption, \u201cBrave American hero, or a coward hiding in a catering truck?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"\/>\n<p>The online taunts match billboards across Tehran showing Trump in coffins or drowning at sea. Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has also pledged vengeance for his father\u2019s death during the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/08\/11\/us\/trump-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0reported that American officials discovered Iranian operatives knew Trump\u2019s exact hotel floor in Ankara. Tehran and the White House have not officially commented on the aircraft switch. Diplomatic efforts remain frozen on the\u00a0Strait of Hormuz\u00a0and the Iran war in general.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandatory.com\/news\/1830339-donald-trump-catering-truck-airplane-switch-iran-memes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mandatory<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s state media has seized on new details about a\u00a0covert aircraft swap\u00a0involving\u00a0Donald Trump, transforming the security maneuver into a running joke about presidential fear. The meme is about the US president hiding inside a\u00a0catering truck\u00a0to avoid a perceived Iranian threat. A presenter on Iranian state television said the incident had become a source of \u201chumiliation\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-10-6.jpg?resize=1200,630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-gossip"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}