Air Force One's fleet will be "soaring overhead at precisely the moment that Trump takes the stage"

[Miles Archer]

Trump’s hijacking of the Fourth of July just got a lot uglier

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
July 3 at 10:39 AM

Meanwhile, a White House official tells The Post that the plans include a plane from Air Force One’s fleet soaring overhead at precisely the moment that Trump takes the stage. Tanks will take part in the display.

Finally, the White House is handing out tickets to the event to GOP donors and political appointees. Passes are being distributed by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s reelection campaign.

As many critics have pointed out, by politicizing the Fourth of July so nakedly, Trump has inevitably transformed the celebration into a campaign event. It remains to be seen whether he will do so explicitly in his speech, but either way, that conversion has already been implicitly accomplished.

It’s the melding of that fact with the particular display Trump is putting on that makes this so ugly. The showcasing of military might, Trump’s association of himself with it, and the unabashed conversion of a paean to the nation’s founding into a reelection event — what it all amounts to is larger than the sum of its parts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/03/trumps-hijacking-july-th-just-got-lot-uglier/

[FirstLight]

1. god....somebody please get rid of him...fucking stain on our country

I see in the second paragraph it's all donors and cronies...

so he's using OUR taxpayer $$ for his own re-election rally? How is this even legal? (course we could say that about EVERYTHING this asswipe does)

[MFGsunny]

2. May actually be yet another "campaign finance" violation.

Any legal beagles know??????

[nocoincidences]

3. The Fourth of July has always been

a family and community centered celebration in America.

Since he has no sense of what either of those are about, he thinks he can transform it to suit himself.

People will be focused locally, and unless he pays people to come, who's gonna be there?

DC dwellers will be at their own family's barbecue gatherings.

He'll be playing to a very slim crowd.

[trusty elf]

4. Hair Farce One

[C_U_L8R]

5. At least the jets will drown him out

Blah blah me me me blah blah

[scarytomcat]

6. maybe they could just drop him off as they fly over

without a parachute

[Initech]

7. Is this what martial law could look like?