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Trump reportedly snuck out of the plane and onto a catering truck that whisked him off to a smaller military jet for the return flight. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201c<em>Fantastic<\/em>. The only problem I can see there is: Next time he needs to escape, he\u2019s not going to be able to use the catering truck trick again because everyone knows about it now,\u201d cracked Oliver. \u201cPeople are going to be suspicious from now on if they see a plane go one way, a catering truck go another and an enormous man-sized cake get wheeled away by two suspiciously-jacked chefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWhile it clearly doesn\u2019t look great for a president to be emergency-hiding in a catering truck, it looks even worse when you remember that a lot of other people were still on that plane that he was smuggled off of,\u201d continued Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6015\">Anne Hathaway Tears Up as She\u2019s Named a Disney Legend (and Her 2026 Box Office Crosses $2 Billion): \u2018I\u2019m One of the Most Insanely Lucky People in the World\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tYes, a number of journalists and White House staffers, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, were left onboard Air Force One after Trump escaped.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cNot great!\u201d exclaimed Oliver. \u201cThere were a lot of innocent people on that plane \u2014 and Marco Rubio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCoincidentally \u2014 or not \u2014 Trump\u2019s White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced her resignation shortly after the airplane-swap incident. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6013\">Ariana Grande Brings Out \u2018Wicked\u2019 Co-Star Cynthia Erivo for \u2018Happy Days\u2019 and \u2018For Good\u2019 at Eternal Sunshine London Show<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver dedicated his latest \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d to Trump\u2019s controversial airplane-swap incident while leaving a NATO summit in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[238,622,1082,1083],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-hbo","tag-john-oliver","tag-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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