John Oliver Mocks Trump Over Plane-Swap Staff Incident
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- John Oliver mocked Trump for allegedly sacrificing staff in an airplane-swap incident, per Variety's headline.
- Trump reportedly secretly used a military jet to leave Turkey amid Iranian threats, according to New York Times and Washington Post headlines covering the same underlying event.
Why it matters: Trump's reported decision to secretly swap planes and leave staff behind while departing Turkey amid Iranian threats fuses a security episode with a political optics story that Oliver has already seized for ridicule.
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