# What is the Secret Service's duty/obligation towards Trump?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 4, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-secret-services-duty-obligation-towards-trump/929603 "2021-01-04T00:45:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-secret-services-duty-obligation-towards-trump/929603/41 "2021-01-05T18:11:28Z")

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> [@jnglmassiv](#):
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> I’m curious what the team detailed to a former-President’s overseas trip looks like. My guess is that it’s more like a few discrete agents than the helicopters, snipers & black SUVs with ‘exotic capabilities’ of a sitting President’s security bubble.

I once ran into a former president in a restaurant in Bermuda. There were three or four casually-attired (but very obviously secret service) agents in the restaurant, but not hovering – if memory serves, they had a table nearby to sit at. And I believe he arrived in a two (maybe three) car “convoy”, presumably with other agents.

It generally resembled the other times that I have interacted with people who have protective details – nothing as extravagant as a sitting president.

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