--- title: Donald Trump Pretended to Drive a Truck at the White House description: President Donald Trump climbed into the cab of a Mack truck parked on the lawn Thursday and pretended to drive it canonical: https://time.com/4711764/donald-trump-pretend-truck-photo-white-house/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-23T21:43:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:12.659Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Pretended to Drive a Truck on the White House Lawn og:description: While meeting with a group of truckers og:url: https://time.com/4711764/donald-trump-pretend-truck-photo-white-house/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt162c1401474cce8d/6988bfad196cf450af03f5e8/donald-trump-driving-truck-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 032317_Donald Trump truck og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Pretended to Drive a Truck on the White House Lawn twitter:description: While meeting with a group of truckers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt162c1401474cce8d/6988bfad196cf450af03f5e8/donald-trump-driving-truck-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Pretended to Drive a Truck on the White House Lawn  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Mar 23, 2017 9:43 PM UTC  US President Donald Trump sits in the drivers seat of a semi-truck as he welcomes truckers and CEOs to the White House in Washington, DC, March 23, 2017, to discuss healthcare. US President Donald Trump sits in the drivers seat of a semi-truck as he welcomes truckers and CEOs to the White House in Washington, DC, March 23, 2017, to discuss healthcare.Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Mar 23, 2017 9:43 PM UTC [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4710615/donald-trump-truth-falsehoods/) climbed into the cab of a Mack truck parked on the lawn Thursday to [welcome trucking industry representatives](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/03/23/see-president-trump-do-his-best-trucker-impression/99551370/) to the White House. Before a meeting with trucking CEOs to discuss his health care bill proposals, Trump pretended to drive the truck as onlookers took photos and clapped. He tooted the horn at least six times. “I am honored to welcome all of the many truckers and … industry leaders to the White House,” Trump said during the [meeting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-america-depends-on-truck-drivers/2017/03/23/0c9ae300-1004-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8%5Fvideo.html), according to a video at the Washington _Post_. “America depends on you, and you work very hard for America.” > [](https://twitter.com/politico/status/845010625747193856) Trump [wore a pin that said](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/325525-trump-toots-horn-of-mack-truck-at-white-house) “I <3 TRUCKS” to the meeting. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4711764/donald-trump-pretend-truck-photo-white-house/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4711764/donald-trump-pretend-truck-photo-white-house/"},"headline":"President Trump Pretended to Drive a Truck on the White House Lawn","datePublished":"2017-03-23T21:43:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:12.659Z","description":"While meeting with a group of truckers","url":"https://time.com/4711764/donald-trump-pretend-truck-photo-white-house/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Newsfeed","Travel","photography","health","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt162c1401474cce8d/6988bfad196cf450af03f5e8/donald-trump-driving-truck-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt162c1401474cce8d/6988bfad196cf450af03f5e8/donald-trump-driving-truck-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"032317_Donald Trump truck","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-TRUCKERS","creditText":"Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4711764/donald-trump-pretend-truck-photo-white-house/","name":"President Trump Pretended to Drive a Truck on the White House Lawn"}}]}] ```