Trump's Air Force One slide accidentally deployed

It was not immediately clear whether the slide was intentionally inflated during testing or whether an error caused it to inflate. But Trump said he was not worried. Asked whether he was satisfied that the plane was safe to fly, he said, "Yeah, I am - or I wouldn't be on it. "White House communications director Steven Cheung issued a statement that did not fully explain how the slide was deployed.

"As the President has said, the slide was checked out to make sure everything works perfectly," Cheung said. "Air Force One is on its way to Dallas so he can deliver his much-anticipated speech to a raucous and sold-out crowd. "

In July, as Trump prepared to head back to the United States from a NATO summit in Turkey, he secretly flew out on a third U.S. Air Force plane after the Qatari jet was flown - without him aboard - to a military base in the United Kingdom. The older version of Air Force One was used as a decoy and carried White House and administration staff, and reporters to the base.

After he arrived in the U.K, Trump got off the third plane and secretly boarded the decoy only to disembark with staff and reporters as if he had flown with them. The group then boarded the newer Air Force One for the flight to Joint Base Andrews.

Trump said several weeks later that the U.S. Secret Service and the military wanted him to travel on a "different plane" due to a threat.