WTF Is It Now?!?

Smirky McGameboy gets new toy, almost bulldozes the press
Shades of Frank Burns...

The president clambered into the driver's seat of Caterpillar's giant D10 tractor. "I would suggest moving back...I'm about to crank this sucker up," he was reported as saying.

But as White House staff started to move the press corps back, the situation became more chaotic. Newsweek reporter Holly Bailey writes that "the tractor lurched forward" and White House staff "too were forced to scramble for safety. "Get out of the way!" a news photographer yelled. "I think he might run us over!""

Fun fact: 'White House adviser Karl Rove asked Caterpillar executives to give the president a photo opportunity in the tractor.'