Posted on 09/25/2018 6:58:32 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
President Donald Trump has officially arrived at a public event where he debuted his new presidential limo—"The Beast," as it's known colloquially. Like the previous Beast, first used by President Barack Obama in 2009, the new version is built by General Motors and visually denoted as a Cadillac, and its latest iteration adopts more modern styling cues and surely packs more advanced technology. Although the details are kept secret, the new Beast is, like its predecessor, a heavily armored stretch limousine that, despite looking like a stretched CT6 or XTS sedan, is actually built on a heavy-duty GMC TopKick truck platform and supposedly weighs upward of 15,000 pounds. Its somewhat conventional styling attempts to mask the sedan's imposing footprint, but in reality it is far larger than any full-size truck or SUV on the road today. We don't know what is under the hood, but it's surely a stout powertrain to be able to move around something so massive.
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Obama Limo Gets Stuck (44 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5zH0Il8B0
Other reports say it weighs 20,000 pounds, has kevlar tires, tear gas cannons, night vision, oxygen and presidential blood-type supplies, in addition to weaponry.
SS has already tested and trained on one for about a year.
It’s fake, Jim.
Chuckle! That was fun to watch.
WOW! That was so cooool!
Very impressive.
And only while idling. It goes down once it rolls off the curb.
Can it Fly and does it have Rockets ,Oh and Invisibility
4 mpg.
Lots of people are going to be running to delay arrests.
There are five levels of armor for vehicles. I was told The Beast is Level 6.
What’s interesting is the wheel covers. Heavily armored vehicles have an incredible amount of lug nuts. I’ve never counted the ones I’ve seen but it’s more than ten.
I suspect the wheel covers are to hide even that bit of knowledge.
I toured an armoring plant once where they made personal protection vehicles. They even had trick door handles so if someone made it to the door, just puling the handle wouldn’t work. There was some sort of pattern to it.
So much for that set of tires
Its setting next to a firetruck! Everything is slimming next to a firetruck!
I hope Trump bought 8 or 10, with is own money, just to keep the press guessing WTF he is doing next!
WOW
The video is real.
Who is driving and the bit about the pres is not correct
Yep. Remove all the ‘pretty’ and you got no idea what you are looking at!? I hope it has secret machine guns and an automatic oil slick dispenser, and lets not forget the nuclear rocket assisted escape pod and cloaking device!
That was good.
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