President Trump addressed a recent report about a Secret Service agent who attempted to smuggle his wife onto a flight to Scotland.
As previously reported, the Secret Service has launched an investigation after one of its agents tried to bring his wife along on a mission-related flight during Trump’s visit to Scotland. Trump arrived in Turnberry, Scotland, on Friday as part of a five-day trip to the United Kingdom.
According to RealClearPolitics, the agent involved is a trainee and sought to bring his wife—an Air Force employee—on the trip. He reportedly flew her to Maryland, where she attended a Secret Service briefing, and then she took a bus to Joint Base Andrews before being turned away.
“That’s a weird deal. The wife in the car… Wouldn’t you think that might be a little dangerous? I don’t know if that has proper compression. I don’t know, that’s a strange one. I just heard that two minutes ago. I think [USSS Director] Sean [Curran] is taking care of it,” President Trump commented when asked about the situation.
Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics reported, “The agent in question is a Phase 1 agent (new trainee in first years on the job) who was written up multiple times for misconduct at the Rowley Training Center where agents go through their preliminary training to become agents and can wash out if held to proper standards, according to two sources in the Secret Service community.”
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed the incident in a statement:
“The U.S. Secret Service is conducting a personnel investigation after an employee attempted to invite his spouse – a member of the United States Air Force – aboard a mission support flight. The aircraft, operated by the U.S. Air Force, was being used by the Secret Service to transport personnel and equipment. Prior to the overseas departure, the employee was advised by supervisors that such action was prohibited, and the spouse was subsequently prevented from taking the flight. No Secret Service protectees were aboard and there was no impact to our overseas protective operations.”
When asked by Daily Mail reporter Geoff Earle about the RealClearPolitics report, Trump reiterated, “That’s a weird deal. The wife in the car… Wouldn’t you think that might be a little dangerous? I don’t know if that has proper compression. I don’t know that’s a strange one. I just heard that two minutes ago. I think Sean [Curran] is taking care of it.”
Crabtree noted that Trump may have misunderstood the situation:
“When asked by the Daily Mail’s White House reporter @GeoffEarle about my reporting from over the weekend, Trump seemed to think the agent tried to smuggle his wife in a non-pressurized area of the C-17 Air Force plane, what’s known as a carplane in Secret Service parlance,” she said.
????President Trump weighs in aboard Air Force One on our @RCPolitics EXCLUSIVE on the Secret Service agent who tried to have his wife accompany him to Scotland on a Secret Service cargo carplane.
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) July 29, 2025
Trump, however, seems very confused by the details — did the Secret Service brief… https://t.co/8w79eqMDDV
President Trump addressed the issue aboard Air Force One following the report by RealClearPolitics.
President Trump Holds A Press Gaggle On Air Force One — Jul 29, 2025 pic.twitter.com/ses9oJPPb3
— Raymond Ng (@rayngls) July 29, 2025
