Newps wrote:

It is an immense amount of money. A couple of days before the President
arrives the support stuff comes in. You'll have cargo planes full of limos,
suburbans, Blackhawk helicopters, secret service agents, etc.

Yes I can well imagine.

I would also imagine that only the most jaded would begrudge the cost
or the use by the president.

Up here in Canada every time the Prime Minister goes somewhere or
a government plane is used to transport a senior politician or a
Premier at the Provincial level there will be some news organization
using our freedom of information act to find out what the cost of the
flight was, and then squeeling like stuck pigs over that cost.