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Trump wants a military parade for his birthday like a 6 year old would - Magical Realist - May 11, 2025
Dodged the draft with the spurious diagnosis of "bone spurs". I hope those don't bother him as he stands watching the troops marching by. Musical acts planned? Let me guess..Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock?
"A presidential review stand, bleachers and a concert stage will be set up on the Ellipse, south of the White House, according to the application.
The event would occur on the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, which also falls on President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.
At 8 p.m., a concert will be held on the Ellipse, to feature “five to seven musical acts” with “well-known performers, likely from the country music world,” according to the application.
Fireworks are scheduled for 9:45 p.m., with the concert ending at 10 p.m.
The parade will include 6,600 soldiers, 150 military vehicles, including tanks, and 50 helicopters and will feature a jet flyover and paratroopers the Golden Knights who will land on the Ellipse.
The application states that the organizers do not “have any reason to believe … that any individual, group, or organization might seek to disrupt” the event.
No final cost estimate has been released, but the Associated Press estimates it will cost “tens of millions of dollars.”
RE: Trump wants a military parade for his birthday like a 6 year old would - C C - May 11, 2025
Must be North Korean parade envy, or grudging admiration for the old Soviet version. (Penis envy was never applicable to men, so male leaders apparently need a saluting or upright soldierly substitute...)
EXCERPTS: “We have the greatest missiles in the world,” Trump told NBC News. “We have the greatest submarines in the world. We have the greatest army tanks in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. And we’re going to celebrate it.”
[...] Trump wants a military parade that could cost tens of millions of dollars to celebrate the US Army’s 250th birthday, which so happens to fall on his birthday, June 14. It’s also Flag Day, when the Continental Congress adopted the American flag.
“I view it for Flag Day, not necessarily my birthday,” Trump told NBC News in a recent interview. “Somebody put it together.”
It could be the same kind of coincidence by which the expensive new fighter jet the Pentagon is developing will be the F-47 and Trump is the 47th president.
[...precedent?...] Dwight Eisenhower, is also the one who proclaimed that Armistice Day should become Veterans Day...
RE: Trump wants a military parade for his birthday like a 6 year old would - Syne - May 11, 2025
Oh no. How dare anyone celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.
Every president already does a military review parade at every inauguration.
Shouldn't that be enough.
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RE: Trump wants a military parade for his birthday like a 6 year old would - confused2 - May 13, 2025
At least he'll probably have 'YMCA' played over huge loudspeakers - possibly the gayest song in the history of gay songs.
RE: Trump wants a military parade for his birthday like a 6 year old would - Magical Realist - May 20, 2025
(May 13, 2025 08:53 PM)confused2 Wrote: At least he'll probably have 'YMCA' played over huge loudspeakers - possibly the gayest song in the history of gay songs.
That's one thing I have always given Trump credit for---that he has never had any problems with gays and lesbians. I think that comes from being rich as most of them are quite used to depending on gays for assistance and service. And he probably only enacts policies against trans because his lunatic voter base hates them so much. I don't think he gives a crap either way..
RE: Trump wants a military parade for his birthday like a 6 year old would - Magical Realist - Jun 15, 2025
And now, live from Washington DC, Trump's military parade...
"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism--how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business."---Albert Einstein
RE: Trump wants a military parade for his birthday like a 6 year old would - Syne - Jun 15, 2025
The supposed "no kings" counter protest to this military parade just ended up showing that LA could have stopping the vandalism, looting, and rioting if they had wanted to. Someone made the point that it's likely Karen Bass didn't want to be shown up by how peaceful it was around the federal buildings the marines were protecting. This means she's literally culpable in the previous destruction.
RE: Trump wants a military parade for his birthday like a 6 year old would - Magical Realist - Jun 16, 2025
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