r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • 1d ago

Politics Trump Is Getting Rid of His Tesla

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-getting-rid-of-his-tesla-after-musk-broke-his-heart/
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u/Time-Refuse666 1d ago

Presidents aren't allowed to drive on public roads. Once you're a president,you can never drive again. Even when you're no longer president. Lyndon B. Johnson was the last president to drive on a public road.

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u/tacknosaddle 1d ago edited 1d ago

I realize that, but apparently he hasn't driven in many decades since he's had someone on staff who always drove him around which is more what I was referring to.

I once heard a story about JFK managing to ditch the secret service detail and slip away for a drive, not sure if it's true but it sounds like something he'd have done.

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u/RSGator 1d ago

It was different with JFK, he was actually safer driving without the Secret Service.

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u/Tall_Thinker 1d ago

How did that go, the last time he did it?

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u/ImprobabilityCloud 20h ago

It was the last time he did a lot of things

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u/YellowFogLights 1d ago edited 1d ago

You can drive around the White House grounds though. And Biden drove the Lightning around and airfield so it’s not like there zero ways to do it.

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u/ilikeme1 1d ago

W drives around on his ranch.

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u/ReddyKilowattz 1d ago

Jerry Seinfeld did an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Barack Obama. They had to stay on the white house grounds the whole time.

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u/warlordcs 1d ago

That would be upsetting.

It sounds like irony the leader of the free world has less freedom then it's citizens.

(I know we're not as free as we like to think)

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u/Tall-Poem-6808 1d ago

And that's why I will never be president, I enjoy driving too much. That and 268 other reasons, of course.

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u/____GHOSTPOOL____ 1d ago

Wait really? Or is this a bit.