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Netflix documentary on Trump’s ‘decoy plane’ coming Friday

President Trump’s secret departure on an alternate military aircraft over the summer in Turkey is getting the Netflix documentary treatment. “Instadocs: The Decoy Plane,” premiering Friday on the streamer, will explore how the president was secretly shuttled inside a catering truck to a smaller Air Force C-32A plane in July amid security concerns involving Iran. The documentary…

· 307 words· updated September 1, 2026 at 11:45 AM
A catering truck is parked at Air Force One on the tarmac as the motorcade carrying President Trump arrives to depart following the NATO summit at Ankara International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026.
A catering truck is parked at Air Force One on the tarmac as the motorcade carrying President Trump arrives to depart following the NATO summit at Ankara International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026.

President Trump’s secret departure on an alternate military aircraft over the summer in Turkey is getting the Netflix documentary treatment.

“Instadocs: The Decoy Plane,” premiering Friday on the streamer, will explore how the president was secretly shuttled inside a catering truck to a smaller Air Force C-32A plane in July amid security concerns involving Iran.

The documentary will detail the story “through the eyes of the traveling press corps with firsthand accounts” from journalists including Associated Press White House photographer Alex Brandon and The Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe, among others, Netflix said in a Tuesday announcement about the project.

“As we get on the tarmac, and we round and I look at Air Force One, I see those catering vehicles up against the side of Air Force One. There’s one at the front and one at the back,” Brandon, who was covering Trump’s departure from the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, said in a preview clip from the documentary.

“And I have never seen that before. Forty years doing presidents, never seen that before. I shot it. I shot the shit out of it,” the photojournalist said.

The Washington Post first reported in August how Air Force One acted as a “decoy,” with some White House staff and reporters remaining on board, while the president flew on the other aircraft.

“Beyond showing the lengths the Secret Service will go to protect the president, this installment reveals the cost of that mission: to get him home safely, a plane full of reporters and the public they answer to were left flying blind,” Netflix said.

White House communications director Steven Cheung told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, last month, “As the President has said recently, there are many enemies of America who have their sights on him, and we use every tool at our disposal to address those threats.”

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