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The furor over Trump's vaccine changes and Trump's secret decoy plane - C C - Aug 13, 2026
BACKGROUND: A couple of nights ago, MSM outlets were going out of their way to frame Trump as a coward in the plane-juggling incident. Which might have been justified to an extent if this were a unique event. But this is something security does all the time. And belatedly, CNN walked things back in today's article (below) to better reflect that.
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https://youtu.be/ENC1noyBjl4
VIDEO EXCERPTS: The White House yesterday announced a change in the recommended childhood vaccine allotment. Now I want to just make sure that no matter where you come down on this issue, you understand what happened. Back in the 1970s, the government recommended 11 vaccines for children between birth and 18 years old. That number is now 72. And including some of them that are combined together, like MMR.
So remember we've gone from 11 to 72. In Europe, Denmark has 10. The UK and Germany have between 12 and 14. So when people tell you this is causing confusion and the scientific community is settled... Then either the rest of the world is all doing this wrong or something's going on in the United States. Maybe big pharma has paid everybody off.
[...] The other big story that I wanted to talk to you about concerns the media being in a tizzy.
When the president flew from Turkey back to the United States, the Washington Post did this whole exposé about how the president got off the newer red, white, and blue Air Force One and got on the old one. Well, it turns out that reporting was not true. He actually got on the new one, the red, white, and blue one, and they saw him. There are all these cameras on it. There's a picture of him at the top of the stairs.
And sometimes if you're getting on a commercial plane, you get on the jet bridge and walk through, and on the other side they're sometimes bringing in catering. Obviously Air Force One's a much bigger plane, but they were doing that. And the president walked across, got in the catering truck, went down, and then got on a very small plane that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was on.
Flew to England and then got back on the red, white, and blue jet and flew home. All because there was this huge threat from Iran.
Now, the funny thing about this is the media is all in a tizzy because they weren't on the plane, and now they're saying, "Well, we could have been a target on the old plane." It's always about them, not the president's security, not about national security. It's always about them. And I find it so fascinating in all these stories how much it's all about their own well-being.
Why officials decided to smuggle Trump out of Turkey with a catering truck and a secret plane (CNN): Former Secret Service agent and CNN contributor Jonathan Wackrow said it is not uncommon for the Secret Service to play a three-card monte-esque game when the president travels. “Decoys happen all the time with the president. If you think about every time he gets on a helicopter in Washington, DC, there are three identical helicopters that shell game constantly,” Wackrow said.
Truth about Trump's flight finally exposed ... https://youtu.be/ENC1noyBjl4