Trump secretly slipped off Air Force One and left journalists and some of his own staff behind on a plane he thought might be attacked — a move critics call cowardly and callous.

• Leaving a summit in Turkey, Trump boarded the old Air Force One in front of cameras, then was sneaked out minutes later through a catering truck onto a smaller military jet.
• That left the original plane as a decoy — still carrying reporters and White House staff who believed the president was with them.
• The threat, reportedly from Israeli intelligence about an Iran plot, is being questioned as possibly exaggerated to stoke anger at Iran.
• Asked why the press had been told to lower their window shades, Trump said it was because they were "on a dangerous flight."
• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was on the secret jet, while a few loyal aides went with Trump; Marco Rubio and other top officials were not on the secret plane.

Outlook: Expect more scrutiny of the decision to use staff and press as unwitting decoys and of how credible the Iran threat really was.