Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself | Donald Trump is pulling straight from the dictator’s playbook.
Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself | Donald Trump is pulling straight from the dictator’s playbook.
Summary
Trump is planning a $92 million military parade on June 14, 2025—his 79th birthday, Flag Day, and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.
The four-mile event, from the Pentagon to the White House, revives a long-desired spectacle Trump previously canceled in 2018 over costs.
He has since overhauled military leadership, removing top Pentagon officials and replacing them with loyalists likely to support the parade.
D.C. officials, facing pressure from Trump’s federal overreach, have shown little resistance. Critics call it a vanity project amid broader concerns about authoritarian tendencies.
I'm 100% convinced DOGE will stop this as it is not very efficient use of tax money.
They'll spin it as necessary and patriotic to lift the spirits of the American people, or some bullshit like that.
I stand with DOGE in this pursuit
Sorry but DOGE only gets involved when the government uses tax payer money to feed starving children or help keep old people from ending up on the street.
Just like the millions in taxpayer money that has to be spent keeping Agent Orange safe when he goes golfing... at his own resorts, funneling the money to himself.
Sounds like a great time to do massive civil disobedience.
I'm pretty sure the DC cops wouldn't be inclined to step in if a few hundred thousand folks decided to block the parade route.
Maybe you even get someone ran over by a tank. Hmm, that sounds familiar.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I'd point out that it wouldn't be the military handling crowd control; it would be the DC police.
DC and Trump have a long and unhappy history.
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I'm pretty sure the cops would decide that they didn't want to interfere with a legitimate protest.
ACAB.
They would likely just use sonic weapons to disperse the crowds. People would trample eachother to death trying to flee and he'd just bitch about how inconsiderate all those protestors were.
I wonder what's worse for Trump: a riot on his parade or nobody showing up.
First, Trump can't do anything wrong. If nobody shows up he'd tell himself they were all home watching on TV and if there's a riot he'll say that Soros paid for it.
Second, even if ACAB the DC police have a vested interest in their own city. They'd put making Trump look bad ahead of anything else.
Good luck
We could keep another thousand or so federal employees employed for the next year for that, but yeah let’s waste that money for a non-milestone birthday year for an asshole instead.
Oh man, if we could fuck up his birthday party I would be so happy.
30 people along the route of the parade cracking tear gas grenades at the same time would be lovey to see.
This is clearly not worse than J6 and those people are heroes now.
Yes, but I don't want to see what the SS will do to people deploying "weapons" near enough to the president.
Where's DOGE on this waste and abuse?
Can't have a parade if doge fires the entire military!!!
I should stop paying taxes
I'm working on having all my jobs convert me to 1099 (some have) and then I'm just going to see how long I can go without paying.
Probably not as long as I'd like, but whatever.
I'm kind of in the same boat. At this point I want to set the federal tax money aside in a high yield savings and then just not pay taxes. I mean, what's the fine\penalty rate that they charge? If it's nominal then you may actually make money in the long run by withholding taxes, then negotiating lower rates later
They can't arrest all of us.
So, 3 months in office and we’re already going to waste over $120m for this fucking cunt to play golf on the job and stroke his ego with a military parade? At least they could fire 2,400 people in an unimportant place like the CDC to offset the costs for things that truly make America great. /s
Wow, America, you've really let an old failure of a person -and Russian asset- turn your country into a dictatorship without as much as a whimper.
Who knew it would be so easy to do it that a failed reality TV star could do it?It's hilarious, yet shockingly sad, to see this in real time.
I mean, yeah, if it was an evil genius then I could see how it could happen, but to a conman like tRUMP? Christ.It was kind of planned. They kept making people more and more stupid thinking it will make them easier to control. What they didn't expect is that people will get so stupid they will stop listening to them and choose other idiot instead.
Social media and News brainrot did all the heavy lifting for the last 10 years.
Heil Myself (Springtime for Hitler - Part Two) - The Producers
Sounds like a great opportunity for a massive protest.
The secret service has got to be losing their fucking minds over this. There is literally no way such an event would end well and it's just not practical to secure such a thing.
Wouldn't it be hysterical if Trump's ego was what ended all this?
I guess the soldiers will like to prepare, train and do the parade for a draft doger.
Who also hates them
They'll have no choice, the "suckers" and "losers".
So if all of the military is focusing their effort on this stupid expensive bullshit, what's the most disruptive thing a group of well organized people could do?
Organize a crowd to stand in front of the tanks.
Paint the route in pride colours the night before
even better, paint a line off the road and to a cliff ala Wile Coyote and see if he's dumb enough to follow it.
Boycott the event and protest 4 miles away. Imagine his face when nobody turns up haha
I wonder if the military are practicing the goose step
Anyone in the military that goes along with this should be removed for treason
4 mile stretch. I hope they run out of people the first mile and they have to run to get in front of the parade to make it look like it's full. I hope an eagle shits right on his head too.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
I guess he’s lucky eggs aren’t affordable. Otherwise people might stock up on them for this occasion.
Putin will be riding in the lead tank with trump.
Doubt the leader of the US would share the spot with trump...
Had me in the first half
Excellent!
For clarity: I despise everything about Trump.
But celebrating the 250th anniversary of the army is a logical thing to do. Most countries around the world, even democracies, would do that. Look at for example the parades in France.
The thing Trump is doing wrong in this scenario is that he makes it about him. He is having a parade for his birthday, not the 250th birthday of the army. Fucking narcissist.
The US has never celebrated any anniversary of any military branch with a public Soviet-era parade like this. And I assume there will be no marines and no aircraft, since their anniversary does not overlap with the army.
Let's not sanewash this.
Who does he think will attend this parade?
Seems like a great opportunity for an actual televised protest. Line the parade route with opposition
I'd rather paint the road stripe off a nearby cliff. Are there cliffs there?
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So how do veterans feel about this? Lousy ass draft dodger Private Bonespurs forcing the military to prance around in his honor?
What does the efficiency experts say about this spending? Seems a bit of a waste of cash. I mean if we have to fire thousands of people because they cost too much....then why waste it here. We don't need this, we don't need him.
Will he get to wear a giant hat? He should also have a fake military outfit with more medals than anyone.
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Don't really have a problem with a $92,000,000 parade so much as I have a problem with the 1,000,000,000,000 military budget.
Edit: It appears I have offended the libs by trying to bring it back to a larger systemic issue rather than freaking out over aesthetics. My apologies.
You know only tinpot dictators have military parades for themselves, right? Normal leaders don't do that. Normal democracies don't do that.
Oh, I just noticed your instance. Carry on, comrade.
I'd say we should throw rotten eggs and tomatoes, but we won't be able to afford that.
It'd be an awful shame if a nuclear bomb went off during the parade. The news the next day would probably read: Nuke in downtown DC, nothing of value lost.
