Are you struggling under rising gas prices, debilitating car payments, and stagnant wages? Well, according to our big wet President Donald John Trump, you can eat cake about it. The leader of the United States is buying 250 new Cadillac Escalades for his motorcade, because he and his team “look sharp” in the luxury SUVs. That’s a good look, for sure.
At an event earlier this week at General Motors’ Milford Proving Ground, President Trump made a number of comments regarding GM’s vehicles and production. The event was supposedly to celebrate U.S. production, though in typical Trump fashion he veered into such tangential topics as factory naming: “Do you know what Factory Zero is? What the hell does that mean, Mary, Factory Zero? You’re going to have to explain it.” After that, though, he commented on the “One and only, the Escalade,” saying that his administration had purchased 250 of the luxury SUVs.
That’s so we look sharp in those cavalcades
“We ordered 250 Escalades. That’s how we look sharp in those cavalcades, you know,” Trump said during remarks at the proving ground. “We look sharp in those Escalades.”
Generally, when citizens of a country are struggling economically, leaders of that nation will work to alleviate the people’s financial concerns in a bid to retain approval amongst the populace. The Trump administration has thus far remained uninterested in this — or even the thin veneer of it, it seems — and is instead going into full gold-plated aristocracy mode. I can’t say it’s the plan I’d choose going into the midterms, but I’m no political consultant.
While the Beast presidential limo has long been Cadillac-designed, the rest of the motorcade is generally comprised of more cost-effective Suburbans, Jeeps, or Fords. To replace that all with Escalades will be no small feat. The SUVs are already expensive gas guzzlers, but these will need to be specially outfitted for protection use which can only make them even heavier and worse on gas. At a time when Americans are struggling with rising costs, spending more of the people’s money on vanity is some real Romanov activity. It’s a bold move, Cotton, and we’ll see how it works out for the Republicans come November.
