{"id":114795,"date":"2026-01-12T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114795\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:14:07","slug":"trumps-motorcade-in-florida-rerouted-due-to-suspicious-object-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114795\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s motorcade in Florida rerouted due to &#8216;suspicious object&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WASHINGTON &#8212; President <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> motorcade took a different route than usual to the airport as he was departing Florida on Sunday due to a \u201csuspicious object,\u201d according to the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The object, which the White House did not describe, was discovered during security sweeps in advance of Trump\u2019s arrival at Palm Beach International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cA further investigation was warranted and the presidential motorcade route was adjusted accordingly,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The president, when asked about the package by reporters, said, \u201cI know nothing about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trump left his Palm Beach, Florida, club, Mar-a-Lago, around 6:20 p.m. for the roughly 10-minute drive to the airport, but took a circular route around the city to get there. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During the drive, police officers on motorcycles created a moving blockade for the motorcade, at one point almost colliding with the vans that accompanied Trump. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Air Force One was parked on the opposite side of the airport from where it is usually located and the lights outside the plane were turned off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman for U.S. Secret Service, said the secondary route was taken just as a precaution and that \u201cthat is standard protocol.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; President Donald Trump\u2019s motorcade took a different route than usual to the airport as he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58098,20366,1111,28,30,29,477,99,1110,4147],"class_list":{"0":"post-114795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-58098","9":"tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-u-s-news","17":"tag-washington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}