Why won't Biden get the bus?

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Interesting that so many world leaders are happy to as they understand the logistics and practicalities of everyone coming in their own cars but not the US? Does he get that this isn't about him? He's a guest like everyone else, not the star attraction.

Person, woman, man, camera, TV eh?

It may not be done in America but it would have shown more respect had he done so because it is here

Just like our Royals respect clothing traditions when abroad

Aw Bless! You actually think all those anti-Biden videos on YouTube are genuine?

So many people and world leaders in one place at once is making me uneasy.

Ah, I'm beginning to get more than a whiff of anti-Americanism on this thread. But it was ever thus on MN.

I Guess the people on the bus wont be too welcoming towards the Bidens 😂.
I find it strange too, if The Emperor of Japan is on that bus why can’t Biden go too?

Maybe he’s forgotten his bus pass.

I think that’s a sexist jibe tbh, because most world leaders are men. If I were, say, PM of Whovilleland, I’d not want to ride the bus. No thank you. I’d have my own secret service escort me about with my usual entourage as befits my queen bee status.

It's nothing to do with Biden specifically so your partner is wrong.
It's US security protocol and applies to any US president, not just this current one.

For heavens sake - people can't see why the leader of the United States is a bigger target and his assassination would destabilise all major markets etc etc. He was never going on a bus! They had decades to plan this, to liaise with various security details and simply didn't. It's a shocking planning failure and it makes the U.K. look utterly incompetent.

They had decades to plan this, to liaise with various security details and simply didn't. It's a shocking planning failure and it makes the U.K. look utterly incompetent.

Liaise how exactly? Bullet-proof the bus? He was always going to take his motorcade, the same as Trump or Obama or Bush or Clinton etc etc etc would have done.

Exactly what I was thinking

How long do you reckon it would have stayed up as an AIBU?

“Invited to funeral for work thing, not close family but expected to show face. Told there is a bus put on but Trudeau and the Emperor of Japan have already bagsed the good seats. AIBU to take my own car?”

”YABVVVU, London congestion charge is brutal.”

Reminds me of a quote from the infamous former mayor of Washington DC.

“People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.”

Marion Barry

plus we dint want the risk of an important head of the usa, assassinated on british soil, plus then there would be the political aspects as well as the fact it happened ect

Who knows if Biden is senile, I haven't watched any videos and don't really care, but laughing at people on here who genuinely think Trump is perfectly sane and well 🤣

Your other half might want to spend less time on conspiracy and propaganda sites.

he has bought his own car, the beast

yet at the same time sometimes just some, those lone gunmen type people (one season tv show) and the fox Mulders of the world, are actually correct, although usually its always classified,

If I was a head of state you couldn't pay me enough to get on that bus. I would rather walk.

The risk must be tremendous.

Oh well, if there are you tube videos, it must be true 🙄

Me too. I don't know why since I am sure there is every precaution being taken, but this is a huge gathering of nearly every world leader in one place isn't it?

I trust the security services to be on top of it, but they must be sweating buckets! It just takes one rogue potshot of even a firecracker or a something like that now that Halloween stuff is in the shops. I'd better stop, I am overthinking this now.

Especially as Putin isn’t there

but laughing at people on here who genuinely think Trump is perfectly sane and well 🤣
as much as I hate to admit it, Trump is actually very active for 76,

same
and the way the chief police was emphasising it today was quite off putting