New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- US President Donald Trump confirmed he secretly switched planes when leaving the NATO summit in Turkey last month.

"It's only up to the Secret Service. I just follow what they'd like to do, so I go by Secret Service and the military," Trump told reporters late Tuesday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

"They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it, I do what they say," Trump was quoted by TIME as saying.

The Washington Post first reported that when Trump left Ankara, Turkey, on July 8 and headed to England, he boarded Air Force One in front of the media.

He was later transferred to a military aircraft via a catering truck in an effort to conc...