cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27899425
Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.
Trump crafted the idea for a military parade after witnessing a lavish Bastille Day celebration in Paris in 2017. Top US generals and officials were less thrilled about the idea. At one White House meeting, when Trump addressed his idea with Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, then the second-highest-ranking general as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Selva suggested the idea was reminiscent of something often seen in dictatorships. When Trump asked Selva what he thought of the parade, Selva said he grew up in Portugal, which “was a dictatorship — and parades were about showing the people who had the guns.” “And in this country, we don’t do that,” Selva said. “It’s not who we are.” Trump then asked Selva whether or not he liked the idea, to which he responded: “No.” He added, “It’s what dictators do.”
Spain, under Franco had a yearly massive parade. When Democracy was reinstated, the tradition continued, but instead of celebrating the victory of the nationalists in the civil war, it became a celebration of the armed forces. It’s still held, but it has steadily been downsized, to a mainly ceremonial and testimonial level.
Where is DOGE? This is like Charles Minor coming down on Michael Scott. Trump is just a huge fucking cry baby that needs constant validation. What a fucking loser.
Ha ha ha Sargent bone spurs reporting for duty.
*cadet bone spurs
To be Sergeant you have to have actually accomplished something.
What a man baby.
Don’t show up, even to protest. He’ll just say everyone showed up for him. Let him have his audience-less parade like a retarded North Korean despot.
We should throw our own parade someplace else. Maybe even call it the Obama parade.
how about a nearby protest with the goal of gathering more people than the parade itself? that would piss him off
Maybe protest and block the parade. This parade feels like bait to start riots. They want riots.
Better to protest in peace and ignore the parade. Just drawing a larger crowd and some good media attention will troll him enough. Concentrate on signs showing ways the money could have been used for good.
A protest with signs that point out how much trump hates the military would be good.
The “Real America” protest
An 8 mile nearby protest.
An 8 mile protest in the way.
Eminem wakes from a dead sleep covered in sweat
“It’s about to go down!”
Let that man be a grandpa for like 5 mins…
palms are sweaty
mum’s spaghetti
We’ve got one shot, one opportunity
Would a protest that involves protesters blocking the parade from moving result in an american tiananmen square?
why would i want to stop Trump of making a fool of himself towards the civilized world? when we can troll him on the issue he cares the more about, after grifting: crowd sizes
This is the correct response.
ETA: and I strongly suspect this will happen somehow. So, his birthday is June 14th, so those who can should start making plans to be in DC around then (actual day of parade may be different, so don’t lock in specific dates until there’s more info).
Meanwhile, get ready for your local May 1st protests. (More locations will be certainly be added to that map as the day gets closer).
And until then, there are lots more opportunities to get out and protest.
How protesty!
Tangent!
Hey are you able to use their map on mobile without issue? It’s the worst I’ve used in years. It might treat one finger like two, or none at all. Too tired to email them right now but certainly whack on the latest iOS on a new phone.
What if everyone lined the streets and silently faced the other direction?
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did he also order spectators to cry of happiness?
Can we somehow convince MAGA that it’s super patriotic to consume a bunch of exlax about 30 minutes before the parade?
Though on second thought, it might accidentally improve the smell.
Will he be shooting a rifle in the air for the entire duration?
No, he avoids guns.
Someone might.
“Let’s put on a parade for this great leader” as opposed to “I want a parade!” (for a greatly, less great leader).
Parades are for weak little men. Pathetic.
Quote by Eisenhower (totally word for word)
soft pay wall, are there any full versions of this
President Donald Trump is making plans for a military parade in Washington, D.C., on his 79th birthday, according to a report.
A source in the capital told the Washington City Paper that Trump has earmarked June 14—which is the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army—for the event.
The display of military might will march around four miles from the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, to the White House, the D.C. source told the publication.
The report said that local officials are only now hearing of plans for the parade and that no formal request has been made for their assistance.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser estimated the parade plans are in their “early stages,” adding that either the Department of Homeland Security or White House reached out to the district’s special events task force, reported Fox News.
Arlington County Board Chair Takis Karantonis told the City Paper that the White House had given the county a “heads up” about the parade on Friday, with only 10 weeks until the event. The White House told Fox that “no military parade has been scheduled” for Trump’s birthday, but stopped short of saying outright there would not be one.
He said “the parade’s scope ” was “unclear” and that no firm details were disclosed.
Trump said in his first term that he would like to see tanks as part of a parade on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bowser said she did not want to see military tanks on the streets of Washington unless it received millions in extra funding.
“Military tanks on our streets would not be good,” Bowser said. “If military tanks were used, they should be accompanied with many millions of dollars to repair the roads.”
Other unnamed officials told the paper that a big military parade will require a huge amount of coordination between the six branches of the armed forces, along with several federal agencies and regional officials.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office and the White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast’s requests for comment.
President Trump previously pushed for a grand military parade in 2018 during his first term in the White House but was stymied by estimates the event would cost $92 million, according to the Associated Press.
The event had been slated to include tanks, fighter jets, and historic military planes.
The plans emerged after Trump’s 2017 visit to France where he witnessed the Paris Bastille Day celebrations which included displays of heavy military machinery. Trump said the U.S. is “going to have to try and top” the French display, according to the AP.
When that parade failed to materialize, Trump pushed for tanks to be displayed in D.C. during Independence Day celebrations in 2019. The inclusion of military vehicles in the “Salute to America” pageant contributed to the event costing taxpayers over $13 million—double the cost of previous celebrations, according to Politico.
No tanks were included in the same event the following year.
When the parade is over, he is going to salute North Korea’s Generals (again)
I mean… I despise trump just as much as most people here, but it could very well be a coincidence that his birthday and the 250th year of the US army fall on the same day and that it’s not for his birthday specifically. This article seems like a shit-stirring one unfortunately, this is bad because it muddies the waters of the actual bad shit he’s doing behind the curtains.
I for one, am glad he’s planning this.
At some point, the top generals are going to have to make a choice of who to support.
It’s actions like this that cost Caligula his life.
How 'bout NO
