The planning documents, obtained by the AP, are dated April 29 and 30 and have not been publicly released.
Well we know where to show up and boo.
Hey DOGE, I found some wasteful spending.
That’d make an ok protest sign.
A reminder that Q1 25 federal spending under Trump has increased over Biden’s Q1 24 spending. A reminder that tariffing the fuck out if the world will only exponentially increase spending.
Not that anyone pro-Trump/conservative actually cares about reigning in spending. It’s all an excuse to punish brown people and poor people.
These are the same assholes who claim they want small government then cheer government curtailing rights when it’s something they didn’t like (women’s rights, religious freedoms, sending people to prisons in foreign countries). Government spending is just a magic word they use for “things I don’t know about or don’t care for”
Don’t forget expanding the welfare state so the “welfare queen” companies can loot the taxpayers dry with no barriers.
Trump will have to care about the debt. A lot of it matures soon and needs to be renewed, but his antics caused the rates to spike so it’s going to cost bigly. Or ignore it and break the entire system what’ll be even more fun. It’ll be entertaining to watch either way.
On top being a dicktorial huge waste of money, the M1 Abrams is an extremely heavy tank to use on roads that haven’t been well maintained. Given his habits and hissy fits,the Donvict is going to stick whatever mayor for the bill to repair those roads. This was one of the reasons the Pentagon denied tanks last time for a parade request and proposed Striker Vehicles instead. He got mad as he does in his man child ways because he wanted the big tanks . Probably wants soldiers to do the high heel kick march as is tradition when preparing for a world war. The higher the kick the higher the success rate.
Sorry have to disagree on your last sentence there. The Wehrmacht didn’t kick particularly high - unlike in Soviet tradition
as is tradition when preparing for a world war. The higher the kick the higher the success rate.
And that’s probably why they lost! Gotta get that hip flexion going!
At the risk of asking a dumb question, isn’t parading military units down public streets the sort of thing communist dictatorships do?
I know I’ve seen video of this sort of thing from places like North Korea and Soviet Russia, can’t say I’ve really seen it from the states.
It’s a dictator thing regardless of alleged political ideology.
and fascist dictators too. so it is more of a dictator fetish
And now a fetish of dickless-tators too.
Yes, although it has nothing to do with communism and everything to do with dictatorship, ultra nationalism and the strongman image.
Most communism has nothing to do with communism.
Well said and very true.
Hitler and Mussolini had it and im sure the romans and greeks did it too. It just feels like an attempt at normalizing war in the mind of the people.
Everything that they said would come true under communism has come true under capitalism
Yeah, basically. It’s treating the countries service members and equipment as personally owned property to play with.
Many countries have military parades. Not just dictatorships. France has a military parade on Bastille Day. It’s a tradition started in 1880. The Netherlands has one during Veterans Day, Mexico on Independence Day and Italy during Republic Day to name a few.
And the US on Trump’s birthday. Find the odd one of the group…
It’s also on the day that the US Army has existed for 250 years and supposedly has been in planning for two years per APNews. Not to say Trump won’t make it about himself but it’s not just his birthday.
The latter being the only reason the military is going along with this.
The first time, orange mussolini was in power he wanted a parade, so they had to create a bylaw in DC saying there would be no tanks in the streets because the pavement couldn’t take it. That is how they stopped this stupid show of self agrandization the first time.
Maybe, if this goes ahead, they can find a way to parade all the aircraft carriers and nuclear subs that terrorize the world every day.
That isn’t a dumb question. It’s a correct observation.
This guy is going to show up with a bunch of ornamental medals on his blazer pretty soon
Who, Donald “dodging STDs was my own personal Vietnam” Trump? Never!
“Hit ball into the rough” medal
Maybe he’ll wear the purple heart that one guy handed him a few years ago.
Full uniform with fake gaudy regalia.
That back 9 was rough
No waste, fraud, or abuse here. No siree.
100,000 people should show up and all of them moon him.
I don’t mind being shot standing up for what’s right, but I don’t want to be shot in the ass.
So I guess Trump’s “I’m not planning for a military parade” statement was another lie. What a surprise.
It’s a surprise birthday parade, he doesn’t know about it.
Omg military is so cute! Donnie should totally ask military out, they’d be such a hot couple! 😍
Hot enough to instill marshal law and have a full-blown coup?
Twilight might actually be a better love story in this case
In the military, doing something to surprise a commanding officer is among the highest displays of respect. Especially if you can make it costs tens of millions of dollars
They represent the Army’s most recent blueprint for its long-planned 250th anniversary festival on the National Mall and the newly added element — a large military parade that Trump has long wanted but is still being discussed.
The Army anniversary just happens to coincide with Trump’s 79th birthday on June 14.
What an infuriating coincidence.
I could have sworn this was a fake story, if this is actually real we have gone full North Korea…
So many guns will e parading near him that day… sure hope there’s no accidental shots…
Sure do hope none of those tanks has a canister round loaded by accident…
A couple of thousand well planned and well aimed shots would be ideal.
The White House is denying reports that it plans to hold a military parade in Washington on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June. But now claim it would be held on June 14, which happens to be the birthday of both the U.S. Army and the dictator-in-chief. Krasnov wanted the Pentagon to explore staging a military parade in the nation’s capital in his first term, after witnessing Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. “I don’t know. We’re gonna have to try and top it,”
Everytime he says “I don’t know” you can replace that with “I feel insecure.”
I wouldn’t mind celebrating Bastille Day. Krasnov can be the centerpiece of the occasion. CHOP
Sounds like a great day for mass protests
I had a faint hope our military wasn’t garbage enough to gargle Trumps balls but this is pretty telling. I guess I still cling to some kind of childish naivety.
He fired the leaders who had a backbone and replaced them with sycophants, who have no respect for the constitution and democracy.
I figured. Never saw the exact news but I find it troubling that it’s that easy to change military leadership. Hopefully a portion of the troops understand the importance of fragging in a situation like this.
Most everything he has done would have easily been challenged, prevented, and or caused an impeachment if Congress was majority held by Democrats. It isn’t a difficult argument to say he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, or treason, against the US by abdicating his responsibilities to uphold the US constitution… in many areas; due process, equal rights, free speech, separation of church and state, the good faith funding and management of congressional established agencies within the executive… just to name a few.
Edit: also, destroying the US from within while cozying up to enemy nation states, that’s super treasonous… then there’s blackmailing Ukraine, again, and waging trade wars with allies.
Yup. Everything you said works for my brain. Hopefully my generation and the young people actually vote for people who want to change policy and don’t get stuck in identity politics for the 10th straight year. Careful pragmatism will work for everybody with half a brain.
Where did all of those people go after being fired? Surely they can’t be ok sitting idly by and watching this all unfold…
Every person in every role in every system makes their own decisions. We’re all just people. It happens that, in the military, there’s a very firm habit backed up with some enforcement, of always deciding to do just whatever the person “above” you tells you to do, but that habit gets broken sometimes. During times of political or systemic upheaval, it gets broken a lot more than it would seem like.
The military people will certainly show up and gargle, no question. But they’ll also think it’s an incredibly stupid activity to be part of, and they’ll remember that he was the one that ordered them do it, and they definitely won’t remember him fondly for it as events get more and more chaotic and exciting in the months and years to come. Personally I’m in favor of him doing as much of this stuff as possible.
I agree with everything you said but the people who think all this shit is stupid have…HAVE to do something if things swing the way it usually does under a regime trying to become authoritarian. It’s the grunts that will be important. They can’t just follow orders and just be alright with it. If most are just fine with being very stupid authoritarian tools, all is lost.
It’s not what this country was meant to be but we keep bending over for the turds that ruin or end peoples lives.
This is still the dumb bullshit stage of things, parades are the sort of time-waste you expect to have to do once in a while. If it turns out to be a pretext and he tells them to keep marching across the Canadian border for US-similation, that’s a different story. Long walk though so plenty of time to mull it over.
It would be a perfect way to stage a military coup though… You’ve got a reason to have thousands of troops on hand, military vehicles and armaments of various kinds.
I’m not saying the military has any assertions on staging such an act, and it definitely would not be as desirable as the judiciary or the legislative branch holding him accountable. But… It does seem like a pretty good opportunity to exploit Trump’s egomaniacal desire for puffery.
I don’t really thing we have a functional government anymore so the justice system doesn’t really exist except for poor people. Poor people like myself just get to eat all the turds shat out by the current justice system that’s controlled by people with money. Trump’s ability to escape treason charges taught me that. There’s never been a bigger traitor in the history of this basic bitch country. The biggest sign of this country’s sickness is that a greasy, sleazy, orangish, spraly tan hair slicked back used car dealer was elected for a 2nd time.
Publicly televised military massacre. Trump is doing Saddam shit, and I wouldn’t put it past him to simply try to order the military to either start a shooting war with a near peer during said parade, or order them to gun down Congress/the SC.
There are some messed up people in the military who are willing to do questionable things, but they still have friends and family outside of the military who would certainly look down on that. I think most people would balk at orders to gun down the other branches of government, especially since the court and Congress are majority conservative and ostensibly on Trump’s side and the military leans conservative. If there is a public massacre, it’ll probably be someone he sees as an easy target for his show of force, immigrants that he was blocked from deporting perhaps
