WaPo editorial board calls Trump's 4th of July plans 'more in keeping with banana republic'

[DonViejo]

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Washington Post editorial board calls Trump's Fourth of July plans 'more in keeping with banana republic'

BY JUSTIN WISE - 07/02/19 09:19 AM EDT

The Washington Post editorial board denounced President Trump's plans for the Fourth of July in Washington D.C., writing on Tuesday his entrance into the capital's festivities will make the order of the day "personality and politics" instead of patriotism.

The editorial board opened its latest op-ed by noting the various letters the newspaper received from readers after news surfaced that Trump would address the nation from the Lincoln Memorial on July 4.

"The writers were worried that a day traditionally set aside for Americans to come together for simple love of country was in danger of being co-opted and usurped," the board wrote. "Judging by the latest revelations of the president’s plans, they were right to worry."

"It was bad enough that Mr. Trump sought to make the holiday about himself with plans to deliver a nationally televised address from the Lincoln Memorial, thus eliminating what many consider the hands-down best spot in Washington for fellowship and fireworks on the Fourth of July," the board continues. "But Mr. Trump now plans to cordon off an area in front of the memorial reserved just for dignitaries, family and friends. Nothing about reserved seating says 'We the people.'"

The board goes on to take issue with Trump's plans to include a "flyover of warplanes and the stationing of tanks or other armored military vehicles" during the day's festivities, noting that cost of such arrangements is "anyone's guess."

"But the question of expense pales in comparison with the message that will be sent by a gaudy display of military hardware that is more in keeping with a banana republic than the world’s oldest democracy," the board writes.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451301-washington-post-rips-trumps-fourth-of-july-plans-more-in-keeping-with

[hlthe2b]

1. I just read the full piece on WAPO. Good for them. Please read and share

[shanny]

2. We should just call them Banana Republicans.

Every damn day.

[Firestorm49]

3. On the day of our independence there's nothing I'd like to see more than.......

a mass protest at his stupid “gathering.”

[mopinko]

4. why are the libs against fireworks?

and tanks in the streets?



because it is so hard to tell these days.