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Catering Run is satire. Every factual claim below links to its source.

Art

All visuals (the truck, the planes, the reporters, the apron, the icons) are drawn directly in code (HTML5 Canvas) for this game. None are copied, traced, or AI-generated from any photo, and no real photos, news footage, flags, seals, or national emblems are used anywhere. The president is never drawn; he's represented only as a necktie in the food cart.

The real story

Per the Washington Post (as reported Aug. 10, 2026): leaving the NATO summit in Ankara in July 2026, Donald Trump boarded the older Air Force One in view of cameras, then was moved minutes later in an airport catering truck to a smaller Air Force C-32A, reportedly because of an Iranian threat against Air Force One. The Qatari-gifted jet wasn't used for that leg. Reporters and some staff believed they were on the president's plane. At RAF Mildenhall in England, he was seen getting off the older Air Force One, suggesting he was moved back aboard out of sight. The White House didn't directly address the report.

Who made the switch and who didn't: aides Dan Scavino, Natalie Harp, and Walt Nauta reportedly went with Trump in the catering truck, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joined them on the C-32A soon after, by its own external stairs. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stayed on the decoy plane, reportedly so officials in the presidential line of succession weren't all on the same aircraft, along with the press corps and other staff who didn't know a switch had happened.

Footnote: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who'd recently returned from maternity leave with a newborn, was reportedly among the staff aboard the decoy plane, per CBS News.

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