Seven years ago, Trump made his desire for a grand military parade well known after he saw a French parade in 2017, telling people at the time, “We’re going to have to try and top it.” But the idea got a lot of pushback from military leaders as well the D.C. government, who estimated that it would cost the military $92 million and the district over $21 million in public safety costs.
Trump angrily abandoned the idea, accusing D.C. politicians of wanting “a number so ridiculously high that I canceled it. Never let someone hold you up!” At the time, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser shot down the idea on Twitter, saying she “finally got thru to the reality star in the White House with the realities ($21.6M) of parades/events/demonstrations in Trump America (sad).”
This time, though, Trump has overhauled military leadership, firing four-star Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as leaders in the Navy and Air Force, including the top lawyers of those two branches and the Army. The legal firings presumably give Trump loyalists who would defend his parade if it is challenged in the courts.
zombiereign on April 7th, 2025 at 16:29 UTC »
Sounds like a great moment for a protest. Let's see if he wants his own Tiananmen Square moment.
Practical-Area49 on April 7th, 2025 at 16:17 UTC »
Let’s all just sit in the fact that he was golfing the other day instead of being at the transfer of remains for the four soldiers who died in Lithuania.
But yeah… let’s have a parade…
No-Group-4504 on April 7th, 2025 at 16:12 UTC »
He is such an embarrassment, and his supporters are unwittingly the least American people in the country, probably history of the country. They have no idea what this country is SUPPOSED to be about!
~ A Veteran