cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27899425
Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.
Is he still pushing for hos face to be added to rushmore?
God, this guy ks hilarious. It would make me laugh if it did t make ne so concerned.
“Let’s put on a parade for this great leader” as opposed to “I want a parade!” (for a greatly, less great leader).
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.
He doesn’t look a day over 136.
Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.
You have been banned from Lemmy.ml
Federation be like let a thousand flowers bloom
Doesn’t have to be this way though, wide defederation is the answer for toxic propaganda spreading instances
What a man baby.
Ha ha ha Sargent bone spurs reporting for duty.
Will there be straight leg marching?
It’s called a goose-step and I can’t imagine it’s not too long until he orders the military to do it in his honor
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.
What if everyone lined the streets and silently faced the other direction?
That’d be OK if they all simultaneously gave him the brown eye.
how about a nearby protest with the goal of gathering more people than the march itself? that would piss him off
An 8 mile nearby protest.
We’ve got one shot, one opportunity
Eminem wakes from a dead sleep covered in sweat
“It’s about to go down!”
palms are sweaty
mum’s spaghetti
Let that man be a grandpa for like 5 mins…
An 8 mile protest in the way.
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.
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.
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.
A protest with signs that point out how much trump hates the military would be good.
The “Real America” protest
You don’t to resort to ableism to shit on the fascist
Some people are mentally deficient. Trump shares some common traits with them. That’s the way the world is. You don’t need to police other people’s comparisons.
Do I really need to explain this to you? In 2025 you don’t understand why that’s not ok to say?
You call it policing, I call it holding people accountable for the words they use in public. I wonder which one is more accurate?
I understand why you think it’s not OK to say and I disagree. Call that what you like. It makes no difference to me.
If you know that then stop playing dumb. We both know your previous comment was baiting bullshit.
It’s not bait to say that I think you’re distracting from an important conversation by trying to play morality police on behalf of a group of people who didn’t ask for help restricting the language used on the internet. You took that upon yourself and decided that this was the time to try to shame everyone else into thinking the same way you do. Quit virtue signaling about ancillary bullshit and get pissed at your government.
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Wild.
Expected. This ain’t the first time he’s tried this.
That doesn’t make it not wild though, imho.
Hashtag just dictator things
did he also order spectators to cry of happiness?
Your tax dollars at work
Picture of efficiency
Where archive
I have some questions. Will the soldiers all be white cis males? Will they be wearing orange makeup and smell like dirty diapers?
