Who loves a parade? Trump wants to showcase military might

[TomCADem]

Source: Washington Post

UNITED NATIONS — Who doesn’t love a parade? To a city that already offers many, President Donald Trump wants to add one that showcases U.S. military might.

It would take place on July 4 in Washington with, as Trump envisions it, tanks and planes rolling down and streaking above Pennsylvania Avenue.

Trump talked up the idea Monday as he sat down for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, who hosted the president and first lady Melania Trump for France’s military parade in the center of Paris on Bastille Day in July. Trump said the two-hour procession was a “tremendous thing for France and for the spirit of France” and suggested he wants the same for Americans.

In typical Trump fashion, the president said he wants the parade to be bigger and better than the one he saw in France.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-wants-to-showcase-us-military-strength-with-dc-parade/2017/09/18/9f49981e-9cb7-11e7-b2a7-bc70b6f98089_story.html?utm_term=.755db698672e

[yuiyoshida]

1. HE desperately WANTS to be KIM JONG UN!

or Vladimir Putin. He wants the power to step on the faces of people who treated him badly... and not like the KING OF AMERICA.

[PearliePoo2]

2. He wanted a parade for his inauguration! With real tanks and shit.

He was talked out of it because he was told the tanks would tear up the streets. But he hasn't forgotten.
It's about HIM...always. He wants his parade.

[madaboutharry]

3. He wants to watch from the stands and act like Mussolini.

He craves the rush he gets from putting on his inner fascist.

[DonCoquixote]

4. what good is miltary might

when in the hands of fools, it makes us weaker and kills the young men and women we are supposedly fighting for?

As far macron, the French are not suckers for that, as his ratings show. Turns out being better than le Pen is not enough.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. And this will cost how much?

Not only the parade itself, but the lost "opportunity cost" of training, plus additional cost in logistics, wear-and-tear on the weaponry.

This isn't for the American people, but for Trump's fragile ego. Trump wants to be a dictator, in every way possible.

[Dawson Leery]

6. The American Right are one of the truly evil groups.

[George II]

7. Along these lines?

[DesertRat]

8. Dear Robert Mueller and team,

Please hurry. Thank you, America

Link to tweet

[First Speaker]

9. Is he going to wear some Graustarkian uniform...?

...my God. Duck Soup meets Evita meets Quentin Tarantino...

[Cryptoad]

10. can we get the,,,,,

troops in there doing some of that niffy goosestepping?

[christx30]

11. I want the audience to start singing

"Do you hear the people sing". from Les Mis. That would make any Trump parade perfect.

[Girard442]

12. Yeah, my family loves to celebrate the holidays just like that.

We draw out all our money in hundred dollar bills and stack it up and ooh and aah over the size of the stack. Then the man of the house takes out his penis and waves it around, showing everybody how big it is.

Well, maybe not, but you get the idea.

[Grins]

18. I'm waiting for when he designs his personal "Commander-in-Chief" uniform!

I'm waiting for when he designs his personal "Commander-in-Chief" uniform to wear on the balcony of the White House for these parades, complete with a chest-full of medals! (Russian style, of course.)*

* List of medals:

For leading every poll! “I was leading in every poll. I was doing great.”

For the 'owning' the electoral college! "We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College."

For the love from his followers! “I have millions of followers. Millions. I don’t do press releases anymore. If I want a press release, I put it out on Twitter…. It’s like owning the New York Times without the losses.”

For making shit up! “I happen to be, in my own way, an environmentalist. I’ve won many awards.”

For outselling the Bible! “It turned out to be, probably, by everybody’s count, the biggest-selling business book of all time. There’s never been a business book that’s sold like ‘Trump: The Art of the Deal.'”

On being the heir to Caesar! "I will say that never has there been a president - with few exceptions; in the case of FDR, he had a major depression to handle - who's passed more legislation, who's done more things than what we've done; between the executive orders and the job-killing regulations that have been terminated."

[Still In Wisconsin]

13. He probably wants our soldiers to start marching in some weird step too.

You know, more dictatorship-esque.

[Initech]

14. Yeah if the MOAR is any indication, people are going to love these!

[Honeycombe8]

15. Yeah, dictators love military parades, don't they? nt

[BHDem53]

16. I'm hoping the

orange jaundice be long gone by 07/04/18.

[JohnnyRingo]

17. Looks like he's going to get his tanks

I recall that he queried why his inauguration couldn't have tanks. This parade isn't for the soldiers, it's for Trump to be seen as reviewing the troops.

[Timmygoat]

19. He wants to be the tough guy

For a man who dodged the draft, from a family of draft dodgers who loved the NAZIS, he wants to pretend he is part of the military.
Hey orange man, send your sons to enlist and for once serve the country.

[0rganism]

20. and his followers will L-O-V-E him for it

such displays of dictator-style military decor are evidence of #MAGA at work
completely useless for most of us, but very pleasing to some

[Nitram]

21. Such a fucking strongman authoritatian despot wannabe.