“Q” would be proud. Facing a credible Iranian assassination threat, President Trump pulled off a maneuver straight out of a 007 cold open — and unlike most Bond plots, this one actually happened, according to a bombshell scoop from The Washington Post.

Rewind to July 8. Trump is leaving Ankara after a NATO summit, one day after renewed US strikes on Iran, when officials flag a serious threat against him. The response, as the Post reported citing people familiar with the matter, was pure spycraft.

Trump strolled up to Air Force One in full view of the cameras, then quietly slipped out a different door and into an airport catering truck raised to the aircraft. The truck trundled him across the tarmac to a modified Boeing 757 — the C-32A — while the traveling press and even some of his own White House staff sat aboard the big jet, unaware the star of the show had left the building.

Then the misdirection turned cinematic. Per the Washington Post’s review of flight-tracking data, the 747 took off as a decoy, reporters told to pull down their shades, its transponder switched off — even as it later picked up the “AF1” call sign mid-flight with no president aboard. Somewhere, a villain was tracking the wrong plane. Shaken, not stirred.

The New York Times corroborated the core account, reporting that while the White House initially said Trump switched planes in Britain to show off his Qatari-gifted jet to US troops, the real reason was security concerns. ABC News, notably, said it had not independently confirmed the details.

Trump landed in England minutes ahead of his own decoy. No exploding pen required. Officially, the White House is playing it very “no, no.”