President Barack Obama and his family will no longer go on safari during their trip to Africa later this month, the Washington Post reported Thursday, because of the extraordinary costs and security the trip would require:
The president and first lady had also planned to take a Tanzanian safari as part of the trip, which would have required the president’s special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning document. But the White House canceled the safari Wednesday after inquiries from The Post about the trip’s purpose and expense, according to a person familiar with the decision.
