Part of this is the problem of an imperial Presidency. There's no inherent reason that the President has to travel around in a 747 with motorcades and a military airlift of support personnel. The coequal branches get around just fine without this level of pomp and expense https://twitter.com/FrankenforIowa/status/1323031378183790593 …
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be the global superpower, have global superpower problems it's fairly reasonable for POTUS to have protections/logistics that other heads of state, or other USG figures, don't have; he has duties that are basically unique in the world
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(that said there's also definitely a lot of "see USMil swinging their big dick around" to it, which is less justified on an immediate practical level)
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