Trump’s travel halted as emergency plane slide deployed on problematic new Air Force One

Donald Trump was left waiting aboard Marine One after an emergency evacuation slide deployed from the door of his controversial new Air Force One, delaying his departure for the Republican Midterm Convention.

‘They were doing a check on the slide. I think it takes 15 minutes,’ Trump told reporters after finally stepping off the helicopter. ‘They wanted to make sure it’s going to work perfectly.’

Trump remained inside the helicopter well after it touched down, with the door of Marine One, according to multiple reports. 

As the helicopter rolled to a stop, the older blue-and-white Air Force One was moved out of its hangar and into position a few hundred yards behind the Qatari-gifted jet, then lowered its front and rear steps.

Minutes later, the new plan had it’s an inflatable emergency slide unfurled from the front door on the right-hand side, opposite the left-hand door the president normally uses to board.

The White House did not immediately explain the delay.

This comes after growing concerns about the new aircraft, which Trump abandoned in Turkey in July on the advice of the Secret Service. 

The president was secretly spirited off the Qatari jet in an airline catering truck and flown to England on a smaller plane.