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From Clinton To Trump, Presidents Use Decoys And Secret Flights
Presidents sometimes travel to places where people want to hurt them.
To stay safe, they use secret plans and tricks.
Some presidents used fake planes and fake cars called decoys.
Those decoys tricked people into watching the wrong things.
Bill Clinton used decoys like this.
Other presidents kept their trips a secret until they were already on the way.
George W. Bush and Barack Obama used that approach.
President Trump's operation in Turkey was unusual because it used both tricks at once.
There was a public show suggesting he was going one way, but he really went another way.
Even people traveling with him did not know the real plan.
US presidents have historically used decoy aircraft and vehicles to confuse observers, as with Clinton.
Under Bush and Obama, secrecy meant keeping a trip hidden until the president was safely on his way.
Trump's operation in Turkey appears to have combined both approaches in a single episode.
The operation featured a public performance designed to suggest one movement, followed by a completely different movement.
The real movement was concealed even from people traveling with the president.
- Who
- US Presidents, including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump
- What
- Presidential operations using decoys, hidden trips, and concealed movements to outsmart assassination threats
- Where
- Turkey, site of Trump's combined decoy operation
- When
- Not specified in the article
- Why
- To outsmart assassination threats against presidents
Key facts
- Subject
- US presidential protection against assassination threats
- Presidents referenced
- Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump
- Clinton's tactic
- Decoy aircraft and vehicles to confuse observers
- Bush and Obama's tactic
- Keeping trips hidden until the president was safely en route
- Trump's Turkey operation
- Combined public decoy performance with concealed movement
- Unusual aspect
- Real movement concealed even from traveling companions
- Location
- Turkey








