Did Trump really need to orchestrate the secret plane swap?

The security calculus behind Trump’s plane swap; the administration’s attempts to sidestep the Supreme Court; and what the GOP’s ‘burritogate’ reveals about affordability and young people’s eating habits.

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This week, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the security calculations behind Trump’s plane switch operation; the White House’s attempts to circumvent Supreme Court rulings in its continued obsession with ‘birth tourism’; and whether ‘Burritogate’ reveals the extent of today’s economic anxiety or that young Americans simply aren’t learning to cook anymore.

Juliette Kayyem for Early Warning (Substack): When Air Force One Became the Decoy

Dan Lamothe, John Hudson, Andrew Ba Tran and Joyce Sohyun Lee for The Washington Post: Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat

Phillip Wang for Time: Former Secret Service Agents: Trump’s Secret Plane Swap Unusual, Not Unprecedented

Eric Schmitt, Maggie Haberman, Aric Toler, Jamie Leventhal, Simon Ducroquet and Yuliya Parshina-Kottas for The New York Times: A Catering Truck and a Decoy Plane: How Trump’s Great Escape Unfolded

Marc Caputo for Axios: Trump targets birth tourism and citizenship in new executive orders

Zane Irwin and Scott Simon for NPR: Kansas revokes driver’s licenses of hundreds of trans people, prompted by new law

Peter Baker for The New York Times: Insults, Expletives and Fat-Shaming: Vance Trolls Critics on the Right and Left

Karol Markowicz for The New York Post (Opinion): How ‘burritogate’ roiled the right — exposing a dangerous disconnect on affordability

Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Eli Sabin won the Democratic nomination for the Connecticut state house of Representatives on Tuesday, following a hard-fought campaign.