Twin celebrations of the Army’s 250th anniversary and the president’s birthday will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington.
Twin celebrations of Donald Trump’s birthday and the Army’s 250th anniversary will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington in a celebration that will cost $25 million to $45 million, U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
U.S. military service branches take pride in their history and anniversary celebrations, called birthdays, across the United States and on bases around the world.
The U.S. Army had long been planning to move troops and equipment to the National Mall in Washington on June 14 as part of its anniversary celebration. Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.
Two U.S. officials told Reuters, on condition of anonymity, the eventual cost could be as high as $45 million. One of them said the cost included several million dollars more than it would have without a parade.
So another republican did a milatary parade, interesting.
GUYS I FOUND THE WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING
The little girl only needs 3 pencils. The little boy needs multi-million dollar attention.
Some new Luigi needs to pull off a Tiananmen Square: Washington Drift
This is why we can’t have 30 dolls
Just give Trump the option of taking the cash in lieu of the parade and BOOM no more parade.
We pay for the military anyway so that’s not really an extra cost. They get paid regardless of what they are doing.
This is in addition to the cost of having the military.
If you don’t have a parade you don’t have to fix streets or move equipments, etc
Might as well show off for the dictator and destroy some roads.
You know….
There are roughly 7 million people on SSDI. A good chunk of those who of us on SSDI are at poverty level or less.
There are roughly 18 million veterans. Many of them have been at poverty level or less.
You could give 25 million people who are either veterans or disabled a million dollars tax-free and no strings attached and you would improve their quality of life drastically.
But, no, the Orange King needs his ego soothed and inflated by having a fucking parade on his birthday. Absolutely disgusting and I really hope there will be a major protest at the same time. I might use the meager finances I have and take a trip to D.C. for that.
The irony? Some of those men and women from the military in that parade will be left to rot once their service is over.
You could give 25 million people who are either veterans or disabled a million dollars…
Not to rain on your parade (I think the idea of a military parade is patiently wasteful and dumb, meanwhile we don’t do enough as a nation to care for veterans and disabled people), but that would be a lot more than $45 million. More like $25 trillion… or 25,000x $1 billion… or 25,000,000x $1 million.
Good grief I can’t do math apparently. Thank you for correcting me.
You might enjoy this video talking about exactly this error and why it happens so often. Intersting stuff!
The cost of the charade, eh parade:
I don’t know how common this sentiment is but I see a major military parade on US soil as an embarrassment. No uninvited foreign troops have set foot in the contiguous US since the Mexican American War ended in 1848. There hasn’t been a military battle in the contiguous US since Wounded Knee in 1890, inasmuch as Wounded Knee was a battle. Part of the privileges that Americans enjoy is that that level of conflict happens elsewhere. Large displays of military power at home deminish us.
I have few teachers I can remember lessons from my high school days, 20+ years ago. The US was fresh post 9/11, patriot act era.
AP History teacher, a Vietnam vet, took his time to explain why only “tinpot dictators” need military parades to show power and US armed forces Generals would never go for it.
While teaching checks-and-balances, he firmly believed enough good men and women would remain in positions of power to never let a dictator override the constitution.
Another time, he pointed out that the presidential election is never actually called until the candidate concedes (when asked about gore v w) and that fore conceded because that is what is done. When we pressed him on it, he said “You are teenage boys, and you think like teenage boys. Adults know what’s right, even if it means you lose.”
All that is to say, I consistently see reminders that this current administration has the same mental thought process as a group of teenage boys, spoiled teenagers who started at third and think they hit a home run.
All military parades are ridiculously embarrassing.
I remember when they used to air the annual Scottish tattoo on tv.
I mean, it’s probably fun for anyone who participates or has a hard on for bagpipes, but for the rest of the world, it’s a ridiculous event where an audience shows up to watch men in uniform walk in beat and show their rifles in sync. It’s like square dancing, but only for men, and longer guns.
Good thing that I can switch channels, so I can watch syncronized swimming from the Olympics instead. I like their uniforms better.
as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington
I hope they shred Pennsylvania Ave. to smithereens… 🤡 🖕
I don’t think they will do much if they go in a straight line. If they start doing donuts then it would probably wreck some shit.
And this will fix the economy and end the war in Ukraine and Gaza how?
In reality we all know it wont do shit.
In Trump’s mind it will show the world what a glorious and powerful leader he is, and everyone will just do what he demands.
Sadly yes.
We’ll see the plan isn’t to end any wars, it’s to profit off of them. And when they said they were going to fix the economy, they meant they were going to make money off the U.S. populous. Americans as a whole have lost money since they came in, but they have made a lot of money themselves.
I assume they’re wanting to do it for the U.S.’s LAST birthday?
Hopefully for Trump’s
When the Tao is present in the universe,
The horses haul manure.
When the Tao is absent from the universe,
War horses are bred outside the city.As much as I want to bash trump, understand that this parade would have happened regardless of who is president and when their birthday is.
Even the article says there would not be a parade if it wasn’t for trump. It’s right there in the post body.
Come on man.
Boy howdy this is the type of claim that is easily researched. Even without the birthday these displays are not a common occurrence.
No other US President has had a military parade ON THEIR BIRTHDAY. Don’t defend the cantaloupe. He’s a tinpot dictator.
As much as I want to bash trump, understand that this parade would have happened regardless of who is president and when their birthday is.
Others have already pointed out you’re wrong, but I was just curious how wrong. So I went looking. Any searches within the last year are polluted with results talking about this trump parade, so I set the search first to prior to 2024 which revealed something I had entirely forgotten. tRUMP TRIED THIS CRAP BEFORE in 2018 AND WAS SHOT DOWN ON COSTS:
So setting the search criteria PRIOR to even the first trump presidency in 2015 gives us this:
So it is by no means common to have military equipment rolling down Pennsylvania avenue and even that much smaller one cost $12m in 1991 dollars ($28,305,381.17 in 2025 dollars).
Thanks for the analysis! Looks like the 250th anniversary will be the party line for MAGAts and such. I was sure the anniversary was just an excuse but this is even more black and white.
Makes you feel like you’re taking crazy pills watching everyone accept insanity. Grab a Republican from twenty years ago and tell them the president is holding a military parade and they’d want to impeach him.
I see. I was mistaken. Very mistaken. I thought that there was going to be a parade or event anyways because it was a 250 year thing.
Please tell me you don’t live in the US.
Alright. I don’t live in the US.
I think the scale here is more what’s up for debate.
It’s very likely Army would have done something to commemorate the anniversary.
But a parade with 45 tanks? Probably not, the last time the Army did a parade was in 91.
There wasn’t even one was for the 200th anniversary.
Fair enough, my mistake
You understand that this is an admission that the US is just flat out a fascist country, right? A fascist democracy is still a fascist country.
Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday
Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.
According to the article, the parade part is specifically for Trump
