US President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he followed the direction of the Secret Service when he secretly switched planes prior to taking off from Turkey last month after attending the NATO summit, CBS News reports.

"It's only up to the Secret Service," Trump said in response to a question from CBS News on the incident. "I just follow what they'd like to do, so I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say."

On the tarmac of Ankara's airport on July 8, the US president was secretly moved from Air Force One to another jet via an airport catering truck because US intelligence had learned of a credible plot by Iran and its proxies to fire a missile at the plane Trump was departing Turkey from.

Asked by reporters Tuesday about the nature of the threat, Donald Trump responded, "I guess there was a threat out there. I didn't really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats."

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