![A mocking meme posted on the official X account of Iran's embassy in Yerevan, Armenia, ridiculing President Donald Trump's secret transfer via a catering truck from Air Force One to a military aircraft last month to avoid an Iranian assassination attempt. [SNS]](https://wimg.heraldcorp.com/news/cms/2026/08/14/news-p.v1.20260814.14b0e55e2c034385b1717e47abf2c5aa_P1.gif)
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Iranian media outlets are spreading memes mocking Donald Trump after it emerged that the president secretly boarded a catering truck last month to transfer from Air Force One to a military aircraft to evade an Iranian assassination attempt.
Iranian media reported that composite images and AI-generated videos ridiculing a frightened Trump have been circulating widely on social media.
Among the memes carried by Iranian outlets: Trump crouching in the back of a kebab truck, and a terrified-looking Trump hiding inside an in-flight meal cart on a budget European airline.
![A mocking meme posted on X ridiculing President Donald Trump's secret transfer via a catering truck from Air Force One to a military aircraft last month to avoid an Iranian assassination attempt. [SNS]](https://wimg.heraldcorp.com/news/cms/2026/08/14/news-p.v1.20260814.2147c201d1754f339d56fad7294dced5_P1.gif)
Iran's Mizan News Agency described Trump's "secret operation" on Wednesday as "the escape of a coward," saying it had "become the talk of foreign internet users."
Iran's embassy in South Africa posted a split image on X pairing a defiant photo of Trump raising his fist after surviving a 2024 campaign assassination attempt with a doctored image of him hiding inside a catering cart, captioning it: "Brave American hero, or coward hiding in a catering truck?"
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