Trump's 'unforgivable' secret plot left Americans as 'sitting ducks': analysis

President Donald Trump's plane-swap plan "to save his own skin" exposed a darker reality behind how he treats the American public and press corps, an analyst reported on Tuesday.

After it was revealed that Trump used a food truck to avoid a potential Iran terror threat, "might seem like an amusing caper," it was actually a "cowardly plot hatched by Trump, Pete Hegseth, Dan Caine and Trump’s security staff," reported David Gardner for The Swamp, The Daily Beast's Substack.

"For a start, the president has been caught in a bare-faced lie to the American public," Gardner wrote. "For some reason, he cannot understand that the media is the proxy of the people. To mislead the press is to mislead the country."

But that wasn't the only revelation behind what happened.

"Worse—way worse—was Trump’s acceptance that the White House press corps, his own White House and military officials and the flight crew were expendable as long as he was safe from what must have been a credible Iranian terror threat," Gardner wrote.

This bombshell had a different outcome, and "left Americans as sitting ducks."

"We already knew he dodged going to Vietnam because of spurious bone spurs. But that was just Trump," Gardner wrote.

"This was unforgivable," Gardner added.