November 13: POTUS's new ride

Beautiful ride. Worth being the president of the United States (POTUS), so that you could be chauffeured around in this vintage, custom made Lincoln Cosmopolitan. Harry Truman must have loved this car. Of course, the US being what it is today, your ride would be shortened, because you took a shot to the noggin, from some irate citizen with access to one too many guns. Ah, the good old days.

Over time the Secret Service realized that their prime asset had to be protected and made as safe as possible. Each subsequent limo became more resistant to everything and became stranger looking with each passing model......

But one key thing remained thru all of these transitions, and that was that these cars still resembled the cars from which they originated.

Tougher and tougher, eventually able to withstand an assault by a small army. And adding technology along the way, until we got to the present day and what became known as The Beast, made for President Obama. His presidential limo was different. Unique in that it wasn't derived from a current Cadillac or Lincoln. Sure, it was supposed to be a Caddy and in reality it had some design cues from that car, but it was actually sheet metal pulled over a truck chassis. Elegant? Like a four hundred pound ballerina is elegant. Take away that grille and it would be anyone's guess of what this thing was.

As always, proof is in the pictures.......

What a bruiser!

But that was then and this is now. The Beast was getting long in the tooth (an appropriate metaphor?), so it was time for something new. And to make sure nothing was given away until its official unveiling, the new Beast was clothed in full camo attire while testing..........

Think this fooled anyone? Even under this disguise one could see that POTUS's new ride would be more elegant of line and actually look like a real car. Although it still hasn't been officially unveiled, Trump's new ride is now fully in service and to our pleasant surprise, it is not at all beastly looking and has all of Cadillac's new design cues......

Thinking back to Truman's ride, that car was absolutely naked by comparison with what is needed in today's helter skelter world. The list of what this car has on it would take up two blogs, but I can tell you that it has everything except a lie detector. This was considered, but with President Trump, the powers that be thought it would wear out very quickly.

Is any of this worth being president for? Probably not, but now Trump and his new best friend, Vladimir, can boast of both having brand new, made for them limos. Now that might be worth the aggravation.

Until next time.......