Donny was scared of Iran.
0:03So scared he hid in a food truck and let his own people fly the target plane.
0:11>> [music] [laughter] >> Big meeting in Turkey. [music] All the leaders in the room. He flew in on the gold one. You know the one he got for free.
0:23>> For free?
0:24>> For free. For free.
0:26>> [music] >> A king from far away just handed him a plane. He painted it, he bragged about [music and singing] it, put it in the frame.
0:32>> So shiny.
0:33>> So shiny.
0:35Huh. But here's the thing nobody [music] said out loud that week. He rushed the whole rebuild so the plane can't take a hit. No proper shield, no armor, nothing built to save the prettiest plane [music] in the world and it ain't brave.
0:47So the trip ends, the cameras all lined up. He climbs the big blue stairs. He turns around, he waves.
0:52>> Hi everybody.
0:53>> Everybody sees him walk [music] right through that door and that is the last time anybody saw him board.
0:59>> [music] >> Hey.
1:01Hi Donny, hide.
1:03>> Hide.
1:03>> In the truck with the fries.
1:05>> Fries.
1:06>> Hide Donny, hide.
1:07>> Hide.
1:08>> And leave them all behind.
1:09>> Oh no. Round the other side [music] where the cameras couldn't see, there's a truck that lift the dinner up. You know the kind.
1:14>> The good one.
1:15>> The one that brings the [music] trays, the coffee and the bread. He got inside the box and then that box went down.
1:20Roll across the runway like a chicken sandwich y'all straight into a smaller [music] plane, no name up on the tail.
1:24>> No name.
1:25>> Lights off, quiet, gone into the night while the big blue one sat [music] waiting on the lights.
1:29>> Still waiting.
1:30>> Now, who's on the big blue plane? His people, his crew, reporters, staff, the ones he brings along.
1:35>> no clue.
1:36>> Close your window shades.
1:37>> Somebody [music] said.
1:38>> Nobody asked and nobody was told.
1:41>> Oh no.
1:43Hi [screaming] Donny, [music] hide.
1:45>> Hide.
1:46>> In the truck with the fries.
1:48>> Fries.
1:48>> Hide Donny, hide.
1:50>> Hide.
1:51>> And leave them all behind. [music] >> Oh no.
1:54Let's put this next to each other.
1:55>> He says he owns the water where the oil goes through.
1:59>> That's what he said.
2:00>> He says he built a wall of steel out there.
2:03>> His words, not mine.
2:05>> And then a truck full of sandwiches carried him away.
2:09>> Also true.
2:12>> [music] >> One plane flies with a target on its back. One plane flies quiet with the boss inside. And for a whole month, nobody knew a thing.
2:23Until somebody watched the tape one more time.
2:28A month goes [music] by, the story finally breaks. Reporters see the footage, there's the truck, there's the gate.
2:33>> There it is. [music] >> So they ask him straight, "Sir, were you on that plane?" And he goes, >> "I do whatever the security says."
2:39>> Convenient. Was there a threat?
2:41>> I guess I didn't really ask. [music] >> Man's got a hundred threats, he don't keep track.
2:45>> Don't keep track.
2:45>> Then somebody said, "Why did the shades have to close?" And he said they were probably on a dangerous flight.
2:50>> He said that?
2:51>> Probably on a dangerous [music] flight.
2:52It's all people, and he only says it now cuz the tape CAME OUT.
2:56>> THAT'S WHY. He didn't own the ocean and he didn't [music] own the sky.
3:00>> He owned a rolling box of chicken and rice.
3:03>> Hide, Donnie, [music] hide.
3:05>> Hide.
3:06>> In the truck with the fries.
3:07>> Fries.
3:08>> Hide, Donnie, hide.
3:10>> Hide.
3:10>> And leave them all [singing] behind.
3:12>> Oh, no.
3:12>> Hide, Donnie, hide.
3:14>> Still [music] water, dim box ride.
3:16>> Dim box. Hide, Donnie, hide.
3:19Donnie. Hide. [music] >> He left them all behind.
3:26>> He says, >> [music] >> "Nobody scares him."
3:29>> He left the country in a food cart. Both of those are true.
3:34>> Only one of them is [music] on video.
3:36Hide, Donnie, hide.
3:40>> Hide.
3:42>> Donnie, >> [sighs] >> hide.
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