Since President Trump took office for his second term, the Secret Service has made major improvements in its proactive approach to potential security threats against the President. On Sunday, those improvements were spotted firsthand by Trump after the Secret Service discovered a suspicious object while conducting an advance sweep at Palm Beach International Airport. This discovery led Secret Service agents to re-route President Trump’s motorcade. The Hill had more details to add on the Secret Service’s move and provided a statement from the White House Press Secretary: President Trump’s motorcade was rerouted on Sunday after a “suspicious object” was discovered at Palm Beach International Airport (PBI). The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) discovered the object during advance sweeps at the president’s usual airport in Florida, prompting the motorcade to take a different route than usual to get to the airport, taking a circular route around town. “During advance sweeps of PBI Airport, a suspicious object was discovered by USSS. A further investigation was warranted and the presidential motorcade route was adjusted accordingly,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. Police officers on motorcycles were traveling alongside the president’s motorcade. Air Force One parked on the opposite side of the airport from where it usually is located. The lights outside the plane were off when the motorcade arrived. President Trump was eventually able to safely lift off after giving the green light by the Secret Service: BREAKING: The U.S. Secret Service found a suspicious object at Palm Beach International Airport warranting President Trump’s motorcade route to be adjusted, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “During advance sweeps of PBI Airport, a suspicious object was… pic.twitter.com/eraLOTowQB — RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) January 12, 2026 In October, The Guardian reported the Secret Service discovered a hunting stand that had a direct line of sight of where Trump enters and exits his plane: Federal agents are investigating after saying they found a hunting stand within sight of where Donald Trump typically exits Air Force One before a recent trip to West Palm Beach, Florida, by the president. The US Secret Service said it made the discovery while conducting technological and physical security sweeps around the airport in West Palm Beach, where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is, in advance of the president traveling there on Friday. A statement to the news media from Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service spokesperson, said agents did not spot anyone near the hunting stand. Kash Patel separately provided a statement reported by Fox News which described the hunting stand as being “elevated” and “within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone”. An image of it circulated by the Secret Service showed it was in a tree. The Trump-appointed FBI director’s statement added that his agency had “since taken the investigatory lead, flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene and deploying our cell phone analytics capabilities”. Guglielmi’s statement said finding the hunting stand did not affect any of the president’s movements. Nonetheless, in trying to determine more about it, the Secret Service was “working closely” with both the FBI and local law enforcement in the West Palm Beach area, Guglielmi’s statement said. Trump on Sunday was seen boarding Air Force One using the plane’s small stairs because of what officials called “increased security measures” in the wake of the hunting stand. The hunting stand in question was reported about a month after a state jury in Florida convicted Ryan Routh, 59, of trying to assassinate Trump on his West Palm Beach golf course two months before clinching his second presidency in the 2024 White House election. A Secret Service agent spotted Routh with a rifle hiding in bushes as Trump’s golfing party approached on 15 September 2024. The agent fired on Routh, who initially fled but was later captured driving north. Meanwhile, on 13 July 2024, Trump narrowly survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. In the earlier case, Thomas Crooks, 20, fired eight shots at Trump, with one bullet grazing his ear, officials have said. Officials said Crooks also killed one spectator while wounding two others before being shot to death by Secret Service counter-snipers.