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July 3, 2019 at 12:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
White House officials and allies are wringing their hands over the risk of the hastily arranged event morphing into Trumps Inauguration 2.0, in which the size of the crowd and the ensuing media coverage do not meet the presidents own outsized expectations for the event, Politico reports.
Maggie Haberman: The big question for the fireworks display that is concerning folks around POTUS, per multiple administration officials will the crowds actually show up, or will this be inauguration redux?
Jon Lemire: A real concern, considering late notice/little publicity for the event, and that locals in deeply blue DC may not show up.
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https://politicalwire.com/2019/07/03/will-anyone-show-up-for-trumps-july-4th-celebration/
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)Making the most ridiculous claims ever they spotted a crowd of about ten people. One asked the orher, "i see the first arrivals prepared to camp out"
Another claimed a "source" that six battalions of soldiers were marching with a tank.
Wtf?
Not a military person but how many in just one battalion?
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)There won't be six battalions participating, I guarantee.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)Ty
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,064 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)those horrible offspring or that psalm-singing asshole of a VP? Or that mail order bride, Melania? Pieces of SHIT-- all of them.
Aristus
(66,478 posts)They'll have to stay in the hollers and hillsides. But they can watch it on the newfangled television contraption while Maw and the eleven kids git supper ready.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)hunter
(38,337 posts)Alas, I'm unable to travel there.
lark
(23,166 posts)Then there will be all the bigwigs from the party who are invited and of course all the "extras" he will hire to cheer for him. I doubt there will be many others, the only question is how many thousands will he hire to make the pix look good?
Paladin
(28,277 posts)Nothing beyond the baby trump blimp and sales of a John McCain t-shirt, so far.
What an absolute travesty this is. July 4 may never be the same for me, now that trump has fucked it over so badly.
MiniMe
(21,721 posts)I live in the DC area, and I have no intention of going anywhere near DC tomorrow.