# Where is the law saying former Presidents can't drive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 23, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-law-saying-former-presidents-cant-drive/988941 "2023-08-23T00:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-law-saying-former-presidents-cant-drive/988941/3 "2023-08-23T00:29:02Z")
Link to P&E thread: > [@What happens if Trump is indicted in Georgia? (Indicted on August 14, 2023)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/822): > > Holy crap, I actually found his license, to follow up from my previous post. Here is an article about it. So he had a license issued in 2012 that was set to expire in 2020. That would mean that he was licensed to drive in the video clip I linked to before. My assumption is that he did not renew his license in 2020. Apparently, presidents and ex-presidents are not allowed to drive. That is one of the stipulations of the 1958 Former Presidents Act. Now, I don’t actually see that languag… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-law-saying-former-presidents-cant-drive/988941)._