Donald Trump did not leave Turkey the way his own account described. According to the Washington Post, he left this month's NATO summit in Ankara using a decoy Air Force One and a catering truck to reach a substitute flight — a departure that contradicts what he has publicly said about how he got out of Turkey.

Intelligence had flagged a credible threat from Iran against Trump while he was in Turkey, according to the reports. The Guardian reports he hid inside a catering cart to board the alternate flight, part of a ruse to mask his real route out of the country.

Governments rarely confirm a credible threat against a sitting US president in real time. HYPOTHESIS: officials judged the Iranian threat serious enough to risk revealing tradecraft normally kept secret, rather than let a false public account stand unchallenged. Supporting: the reporting frames the ruse as a response to the threat and notes it contradicts Trump's own account. Against: no report specifies the threat's nature, source, or assessment, and no US or Turkish official has confirmed the threat level on record.

Watch for whether the White House or National Security Council confirms or denies the account, and whether Tehran responds to reporting that a plot against Trump altered his travel plans.