// BBC WORLD NEWS — MONDO
Trump says he switched planes after Nato summit because of possible threat
Watch: Trump tells reporters why he switched planes
President Donald Trump has confirmed that he secretly swapped planes as he left a Nato summit in Turkey last month due to a possible threat.
"I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, different plane," Trump told reporters. "I just have to do what they say."
The revelation comes after reports that Trump boarded Air Force One on 8 July in view of television cameras before being transported to a military aircraft with the help of a catering truck.
The last-minute switch has raised questions about whether those left on the decoy plane were placed in danger, but Trump maintained on Tuesday the military jet he boarded instead was at "greater risk".
Officials told the BBC's US partner CBS News that the US had detected a credible Iranian threat to fire a missile at the plane. The New York Times reported that US intelligence had information of a person near the Nato summit who had been seen with a shoulder-fired missile.
Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know the US president had been smuggled out as part of an elaborate ruse in response to a possible Iranian threat.
Watch: Was Donald Trump smuggled out of Air Force One in a catering truck?
Trump has previously said he was Iran's "number one target" during the summit in Ankara.
"I guess there was a threat out there," the president said during a visit aboard Air Force One to an event in Ohio on Tuesday. "I didn't really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats."