Spencer Platt/Getty Images When members of the US presidential administration travel, their trips require more than booking flights and a hotel. Multiple security departments send scores of agents to protect the traveling official, and the Secret Service often visits cities months ahead of time to nail down logistics. The layers of security, aides, and press […]
The president and first lady travel in an ‘imperial bubble’ where the US government books entire floors of hotels, closes down airports, and shuts down highways. Here’s what it’s like.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images When members of the US presidential administration travel, their trips require more than booking flights and a hotel. Multiple security departments send scores of agents to protect the traveling official, and the Secret Service often visits cities months ahead of time to nail down logistics. The layers of security, aides, and press […]