Pentagon contradicts Trump, says he wasn't given military parade cost estimate before canceling it

[babylonsister]

Gawd, he lies about EVERYTHING!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pentagon-contradicts-president-trump-says-he-wasn-t-given-military-parade-cost-estimate-before-canceling-it/ar-BBMbBJS?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280

Pentagon contradicts President Trump, says he wasn't given military parade cost estimate before canceling it
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Defense officials didn’t brief President Trump on cost estimates for his long-desired military parade before he cancelled it last week, the Pentagon announced Monday, seemingly contradicting the President’s own statements on the matter.

“The President was not briefed by any member of the Department of Defense on any cost associated with the parade,” Col. Rob Manning told reporters at the Pentagon.

Manning’s announcement appears to be at odds with what Trump said after media outlets reported last week that the military extravaganza, which was originally planned for Nov. 10, could set taxpayers back $92 million.

“The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when the see it,” Trump tweeted Friday. “When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it.”

A White House spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Pentagon cancelled Trump’s controversial parade on Thursday and announced it was looking into “opportunities in 2019” to throw the armed spectacle in the nation’s capital.

[malaise]

1. He knows his military parade optics would have been a disaster

after the shellacking that will take place days before the planned date.

[Hekate]

4. Hedging his bets, perhaps. My gods he is loathesome. nt

[riversedge]

2. Well, Trump does not read reports anywhy,

[brush]

3. Another lie out of trump. Nothing he says is to be believed.

[lpbk2713]

5. Trump is a pathological liar.

He lies when there is no apparent need to.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Nothing highlights Trump's idiocy

better than throwing a parade for it.

Except throwing a parade for it, cancelling it, and then lying about it.

[3catwoman3]

7. Didn't the military's statement of postponement...

...precede Cadet Bonespurs' by about a day?

[BigmanPigman]

11. I believe that is what I read too.

[SCantiGOP]

15. Mattis said two days ago it wasn't cost

The cost wasn’t the reason they cancelled or postponed it.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. As pleased as I am...........

that this farce was cancelled, I still cannot understand our country's insane spending for the military. We spend more than the next five powerful countries combined, yet we keep adding to the budget.

Before I retired I was an elementary school principal and on my office door I had a sign: "AFTER WE REBUILD IRAQ, CAN WE REBUILD AMERICA'S SCHOOLS?"

OK, so now - we're gonna' have a $92 million dollar parade?

Is there ANY sanity in DC?

[Scurrilous]

9. K&R

[Perseus]

10. Why does the media do this?

"Manning’s announcement appears to be at odds with what Trump said after media outlets reported last week that the military extravaganza, which was originally planned for Nov. 10, could set taxpayers back $92 million. "

Why can't they simply say "Manning’s announcement IS at odds with the liar"...it doesn't appear, IT IS AT ODDS!

At least they are not calling him "President", just trump.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

13. For the same reasons that police reports always say "alleged"

It's a legal maneuver to hold lawsuits at bay.

But I agree, and it's infuriating. As in when the press reported on August 17, 2017: James Alex Field "allegedly" drove his car into a crowd of individuals and killed Heather Heyer. He was recorded doing this on video tape, so NO, it isn't just alleged, and Ms. Heyer is just as dead, allegedly or otherwise.

[TimeToGo]

20. I don't be think

Alleged is about lawsuits when used in police reports. It's about presumption and the tainting of the jury pool.

[bitterross]

12. Well, of course he lied about it.

FFS, is there anything he doesn't lie about? Why would this be any different?

[cstanleytech]

14. My money is on him canceling it because he refuses to accept that he is unpopular by the majority

and if it was held he would be confronted by that fact either with a number of protesters showing up with anti Trump signs and or by a near lack of people like at his inauguration.

[CaptainTruth]

16. I think he did this just make his base mad at "the politicians who run Washington."

They're the ones who came up with such a "ridiculously high" number he canceled it. He's telling his base "it was those evil Washington politicians who took your great celebratory parade away, you should hate them for it."

[James48]

17. The real reason

The parade was “postponed” is because the recently passed National Defense Bill had language that prohibited spending money on heavy weapons participating in the march inside Washington D.C.


It was in the bill. Trump even did a signing statement about it. Why isn’t this more widely known?

[SergeStorms]

18. Flying the Russian Army, Tanks and such...

into the U.S. really ballooned the budget out of sight. Trumputin had to cancel it. He so wanted to show his Best Bud Vlad what a good boy he is. Now he's going to have to wait until 2019 to officially hand over the keys to the country.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. Just when I started believing him.

I'll have to remember that he'll lie about any petty thing that can be easily checked. I don't think he can help himself anymore.

[uponit7771]

21. A ... REAL ... billionaire would just pay the 92 million himself no? I mean, what's stopping him ...

... other than not being a real billionaire.