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Asked by a reporter why they were told to close their window blinds on Air Force One during a return trip, Trump said, “Because you’re probably on a dangerous flight.”
Asked whether he was aware of any credible threat by Iran against the fortified presidential plane, Trump said, “Well, I have a threat all the time. I’m No. 1 on their list, before you. But if I go, you go. Perhaps someday you want to change professions.”
Iran has openly vowed to retaliate against Trump for a lethal drone strike in 2020 that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of the elite Quds Force with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, after he had survived several assassination attempts from western, Israeli and Arab states over the past two decades.
Calls for Trump’s death have only accelerated with the monthslong U.S.-Israel war in Iran that has killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, among other top Iranian officials.