John T wrote:

Sure, those being protected by these roaming TFRs are elected officials
(for the most part) and nominally work for us (the relative few who
actually
bother to vote). Contrary to what some will have you believe, though, the
occupant of the White House has no input into this process. It's the
security bureaucracy that makes this call - and they don't report to the
electorate. See the closing of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC for
a
previous example under a different political party. The security folks
take their job - protecting the office, not the person - very seriously.
Unfortunately, we're suffering the side-effects of their vigor.

I don't actually know anything about how these decisions are made, but I'm
sceptical of your assertion that the person being protected has zero say in
the matter. If security were my job, and I were the absolute arbiter of
how that job were achieved, my first rule would be "no [in-person] public
appearances".

- Andrew