Qatar Force 1 was rushed into service and doesn’t have the security features of the older 747s yet. Even the possibility of a threat was probably real enough.
The Qatar jet had left hours earlier, the flight Trump boarded/sneaked off was the older AF1 jet. Then, in the UK he snuck back onto the older AF1, then disembarked from that plane, and got back on the Qatar jet for the flight back to Washington.
Qatar Force 1 was rushed into service and doesn’t have the security features of the older 747s yet. Even the possibility of a threat was probably real enough.
The Qatar jet had left hours earlier, the flight Trump boarded/sneaked off was the older AF1 jet. Then, in the UK he snuck back onto the older AF1, then disembarked from that plane, and got back on the Qatar jet for the flight back to Washington.