Feds Bulk-Order 250 Cadillac Escalades So the Secret Service Can Ride in Style

Last March, the US Secret Service shared a concept image of an eight-lug, HD-chassis Escalade around the same time GM was reported to have won a $14.8-million contract to build a new presidential limo. Today, President Trump indicated that military-Escalade concept has come to life, and he’s ordering 250 of them. “The one and only Escalade,” the President said in his hour-long address. “You know we ordered, I think, 250 Escalades, right? We ordered 250 Escalades … We look sharp in those Escalades.” He also made a bunch of other comments ragging on the UAW president. An Escalade is about $90,000, so that’d make this order worth over $22,500,000. It’s…

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