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The planning documents, obtained by the AP, are dated April 29 and 30 and have not been publicly released.
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Well we know where to show up and boo.
On top being a dicktorial huge waste of money, the M1 Abrams is an extremely heavy tank to use on roads that haven’t been well maintained. Given his habits and hissy fits,the Donvict is going to stick whatever mayor for the bill to repair those roads. This was one of the reasons the Pentagon denied tanks last time for a parade request and proposed Striker Vehicles instead. He got mad as he does in his man child ways because he wanted the big tanks . Probably wants soldiers to do the high heel kick march as is tradition when preparing for a world war. The higher the kick the higher the success rate.
Sorry have to disagree on your last sentence there. The Wehrmacht didn’t kick particularly high - unlike in Soviet tradition
as is tradition when preparing for a world war. The higher the kick the higher the success rate.
And that’s probably why they lost! Gotta get that hip flexion going!
Coincidentally, Trump’s birthday this year and the 250th anniversary of the US Army fall on the same date. If the parade is for the military and not for Trump it’s not really that unreasonable.
Hey DOGE, I found some wasteful spending.
That’d make an ok protest sign.
100,000 people should show up and all of them moon him.
I don’t mind being shot standing up for what’s right, but I don’t want to be shot in the ass.
A reminder that Q1 25 federal spending under Trump has increased over Biden’s Q1 24 spending. A reminder that tariffing the fuck out if the world will only exponentially increase spending.
Not that anyone pro-Trump/conservative actually cares about reigning in spending. It’s all an excuse to punish brown people and poor people.
These are the same assholes who claim they want small government then cheer government curtailing rights when it’s something they didn’t like (women’s rights, religious freedoms, sending people to prisons in foreign countries). Government spending is just a magic word they use for “things I don’t know about or don’t care for”
Don’t forget expanding the welfare state so the “welfare queen” companies can loot the taxpayers dry with no barriers.
Trump will have to care about the debt. A lot of it matures soon and needs to be renewed, but his antics caused the rates to spike so it’s going to cost bigly. Or ignore it and break the entire system what’ll be even more fun. It’ll be entertaining to watch either way.
At the risk of asking a dumb question, isn’t parading military units down public streets the sort of thing communist dictatorships do?
I know I’ve seen video of this sort of thing from places like North Korea and Soviet Russia, can’t say I’ve really seen it from the states.
It’s a dictator thing regardless of alleged political ideology.
and fascist dictators too. so it is more of a dictator fetish
And now a fetish of dickless-tators too.
Everything that they said would come true under communism has come true under capitalism
Yes, although it has nothing to do with communism and everything to do with dictatorship, ultra nationalism and the strongman image.
Most communism has nothing to do with communism.
Well said and very true.
Hitler and Mussolini had it and im sure the romans and greeks did it too. It just feels like an attempt at normalizing war in the mind of the people.
Yeah, basically. It’s treating the countries service members and equipment as personally owned property to play with.
That isn’t a dumb question. It’s a correct observation.
Many countries have military parades. Not just dictatorships. France has a military parade on Bastille Day. It’s a tradition started in 1880. The Netherlands has one during Veterans Day, Mexico on Independence Day and Italy during Republic Day to name a few.
And the US on Trump’s birthday. Find the odd one of the group…
It’s also on the day that the US Army has existed for 250 years and supposedly has been in planning for two years per APNews. Not to say Trump won’t make it about himself but it’s not just his birthday.
The latter being the only reason the military is going along with this.
The first time, orange mussolini was in power he wanted a parade, so they had to create a bylaw in DC saying there would be no tanks in the streets because the pavement couldn’t take it. That is how they stopped this stupid show of self agrandization the first time.
Maybe, if this goes ahead, they can find a way to parade all the aircraft carriers and nuclear subs that terrorize the world every day.
I could have sworn this was a fake story, if this is actually real we have gone full North Korea…
No waste, fraud, or abuse here. No siree.
This guy is going to show up with a bunch of ornamental medals on his blazer pretty soon
Who, Donald “dodging STDs was my own personal Vietnam” Trump? Never!
Maybe he’ll wear the purple heart that one guy handed him a few years ago.
“Hit ball into the rough” medal
Full uniform with fake gaudy regalia.
That back 9 was rough
So many guns will e parading near him that day… sure hope there’s no accidental shots…
Sure do hope none of those tanks has a canister round loaded by accident…
A couple of thousand well planned and well aimed shots would be ideal.
The White House is denying reports that it plans to hold a military parade in Washington on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June. But now claim it would be held on June 14, which happens to be the birthday of both the U.S. Army and the dictator-in-chief. Krasnov wanted the Pentagon to explore staging a military parade in the nation’s capital in his first term, after witnessing Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. “I don’t know. We’re gonna have to try and top it,”
I wouldn’t mind celebrating Bastille Day. Krasnov can be the centerpiece of the occasion. CHOP
Everytime he says “I don’t know” you can replace that with “I feel insecure.”
They represent the Army’s most recent blueprint for its long-planned 250th anniversary festival on the National Mall and the newly added element — a large military parade that Trump has long wanted but is still being discussed.
The Army anniversary just happens to coincide with Trump’s 79th birthday on June 14.
What an infuriating coincidence.
So I guess Trump’s “I’m not planning for a military parade” statement was another lie. What a surprise.
It’s a surprise birthday parade, he doesn’t know about it.
Omg military is so cute! Donnie should totally ask military out, they’d be such a hot couple! 😍
Hot enough to instill marshal law and have a full-blown coup?
Twilight might actually be a better love story in this case
In the military, doing something to surprise a commanding officer is among the highest displays of respect. Especially if you can make it costs tens of millions of dollars
Sounds like a great day for mass protests
