Politics: The Socialist Threatening A 15-Year-Long Political Comeback"All we really have over here is the fake news, right? Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThen-campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung denied to Politico at the time that Trump was wishing harm upon the media. The previous aircraft he had boarded, which had the Air Force One call sign and carried White House pool reporters and White House staff members, was a "decoy." "They wanted me to go on a different flight, different plane," Trump said. The Post's report and Trump's comments contradict previous administration statements about why the president switched from his newly refurbished Qatari-gifted Air Force One to the legacy plane he had previously used.