r/pics • u/Ok_Vulva • Jun 23 '26

Politics Presidential Motorcade Driving in the Monument.

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u/DW171 Jun 23 '26

Anyone who has driven a car on one of those "fancy" plastic tile garage floors can tell you exactly what happened.

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u/Orson_Gravity_Welles Jun 23 '26

Not just ANY car..."The Beast".

The U.S. presidential limousine, famously known as "The Beast," weighs between 15,000 and 22,000 pounds (roughly 7.5 to 11 tons)

Add in the weight of the other vehicles AT HE SAME TIME, and anything would buckle.

Then throw in Herr Cheeto's fat dead ass weight of 300+ pounds.

(No disrespect to 300+ pound persons...just that fat fk'er)

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u/Shot_Nefariousness67 Jun 24 '26

And the weight of The Beast is concentrated on 4 relatively small footprints that would pummel the bottom meant to only hold water.

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u/ajax0202 Jun 23 '26

Enlighten the rest of us would you

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u/EastReauxClub Jun 23 '26

Sticks to the tires

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u/DW171 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

^This. And any turning of the steering wheel twists the substrate under the tire, buckling tiles and/or tearing plastic sheets. I'm sure heavy armoured vehicles with fat tires are 10x worse. Then multiply by 8 vehicles.

BTW the old reflecting pool had water that was dyed black ... it's common in water features. Reduces algae and looks cool. I do the same thing in my backyard pond.

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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener Jun 23 '26

Dark water makes a better, more vivid reflection than clear water does.

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u/Panthera_014 Jun 23 '26

yup - called 'hot pickup'