Trump planning to defile July 4th with dictator parade
(CNN) President Donald Trump has always loved a good parade.
While meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Monday, he praised Macron for his Bastille Day parade, which he saw during a summer visit.
"I do want to say that I was your guest at Bastille Day," Trump said, according to a transcript of remarks from the White House. "It was one of the greatest parades I've ever seen. It was two hours on the button, and it was military might, and I think a tremendous thing for France and for the spirit of France."
He told Macron he wants to have a similar parade in the United States to show off his country's military force.
"We're going to have to try and top it," Trump told Macron. "But I came back (from France), and one of my early calls were, I think we're going to have to start looking at that ourselves. So we're actually thinking about Fourth of July, Pennsylvania Avenue, having a really great parade to show our military strength."
Such a show of military pageantry, however, is often associated with militaristic regimes trying to prove their might and would be uncommon in the US, which has shied away from such large-scale displays in recent decades.
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I'm sure military personnel will be jumping for joy at the prospect of marching up and down the square for El Douche
The sarcasm thingee.
"Look, I can make my soldiers strut like a chorus line."
He'll likely be blocked. Much as right-wing authoritarians might be wowed by this stuff, a lot of conservatives are already scared of his "the generals" and not at all sure they won't wake up some morning to find they've taken over. An unrealistic but genuine nervousness.
Disapproval of a military presence is not just a liberal thing, it is America's very deeply established tradition.
And 2018's midterm elecctions would come along very soon after. 
Thanks, OrangeCrush.
Thosed of us old enough to remember the draft have a special appreciation!
...iirc, the streets would be ripped up by the weight of the tanks and shit. The city is not built for that.
I also believe that the top brass understands they serve a democratic republic and its Constitution, not some asshole dictator.
I've seen any number of 4th of July parades in my various hometowns, and of course there is a military aspect. I have no problem with that. You got your Boy Scouts, your local National Guard, lots of veterans, some jeeps, and sometimes a tank. We had some difficulty inserting the Veterans for Peace into the parades during the Bush years, but the mayor was on our side. 
Afterwards there's a helicopter the kids can climb into and so forth.
What you don't have is something out of the USSR, Red China, or Nazi Germany, with Dear Leader adorned in gold braid giving the stiff-arm salute. You know that's what Trump wants.
Should we cancel all festivals, get togethers, and parties too.
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The purpose is to draw out the minority of DU members who are angry enough and naive enough to jump on the bandwagon, thus making the site as a whole look more like a bunch of unreasonable extremists and hypocrites."
we all know how this will turn out...