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Well, that trip to Dallas got off to a bit of a rocky start. Before President Trump could take
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off from Joint Base Andrews, an emergency slide on the new Air Force One suddenly deployed
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Trump ended up waiting about 20 minutes inside Marine One while Cruz dealt with it
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A person briefed on what happened, told Fox News the slide was triggered accidentally
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Trump described it as a safety check, saying Cruz wanted to make sure the slide works perfectly
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Then came the fairly obvious follow-up. Mr. President, do you know why they're checking the slide
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Is there a security concern with the plane? No, they were checking it before and they just wanted to make sure
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So they've, I guess they've already put it up. They want to make sure everything works perfectly
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President, are you sure this plane is safe to fly? Yeah, I am. Or I wouldn't be honest
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Crews removed the slide, actually hauling it away in the back of a pickup truck
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And Trump took off for Dallas on the plane. The jet is a $400 million Boeing 747 donated by Qatar and recently retrofitted for presidential use
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And it's already been an eventful few months. Back in July, security concerns in Turkey led to an elaborate plane switch
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Trump boarded the old Air Force One, then was secretly moved off the plane using a catering truck and flown out on a different military jet
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The original Air Force One took off as a decoy
