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https://politicalwire.com/2017/09/18/trump-wants-military-parade-july-4th/"SNIP...........
President Trump said Frances Bastille Day celebration that he attended in July with French President Emmanuel Macron was such a beautiful thing to see that hes thinking of holding a similar parade in Washington as a salute to the US military, the New York Post reports.
Said Trump: Because of what I witnessed we may do something like that on July Fourth in Washington down Pennsylvania Avenue Were actually thinking about that having a really great parade to show our military strength.
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OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)Kim Jung II ...
Motley13
(3,867 posts)but was told it would tear up the streets
Freethinker65
(10,008 posts)Golden Raisin
(4,607 posts)Turns him on.
Baconator
(1,459 posts)... please don't fuck up my weekend.
I spend half of my holidays in shithole countries and have no urge to go march for funsies.
Deb
(3,742 posts)He is obviously clueless to the demands a full dress parade in front of the CIC present. In DC, in July no less.
We ask enough already. Omfg. How unbelievably ignorant.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)"I prefer people who DON'T get sunstroke. #Failing 101st Airborne".
maveric
(16,445 posts)Just a matter of time till he wears a uniform. One with shiny medals.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)A man with tiny...hands would appreciate that.
lpbk2713
(42,750 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)When will tRump write a little green book of his own?
jmowreader
(50,546 posts)I was going to ask if he cares how much it would cost just to transport all the troops and equipment to Washington to be in the parade, and also how much it would cost to repave Constitution Avenue every year. And then I remembered: It's Trump. He does NOT care.
Also, I don't think Johnson's makes five-gallon cans of baby oil anymore. Back in the Old Days when Republicans still hated the Russians, the US Army's Berlin Brigade had a tremendous parade every year. The US Command Berlin, for some reason no one in the world knows, decided all the vehicles in the parade would be polished to a high shine. Army vehicles are painted with flat paint, so to make them shine the Brigade spent the month before the parade rubbing baby oil into the paint...and then, after the dog & pony show was over, spent the next two weeks scrubbing it off. My unit, thank Cthulhu, did NOT participate in that fuckery, but not through lack of trying...one year they had a new sergeant major over there who noticed Field Station Berlin had never been in the parade. He called our sergeant major and ordered him to provide "all the soldiers and equipment not on duty at the time of the parade" to march in the grand exhibition of American military prowess. "Fine," said my sergeant major, "I will provide one forklift, one lieutenant and two company clerks because that's all I have. Where do you want them?"
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Trying to hard. He will go down in history as another shameful republican chicken hawk playing at war to boost his hollow ego. Sad. Deplorable.
Tanuki
(14,916 posts)went right over his head on Bastlle Day.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)He must be jealous of his fellow nutjob-with-bad-hair.
3catwoman3
(23,965 posts)...cronies do a perp walk parade long before next July. How about a chain gang parade?