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.
GUYS I FOUND THE WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING
Just give Trump the option of taking the cash in lieu of the parade and BOOM no more parade.
So another republican did a milatary parade, interesting.
This is why we can’t have 30 dolls
Some new Luigi needs to pull off a Tiananmen Square: Washington Drift
The little girl only needs 3 pencils. The little boy needs multi-million dollar attention.
America is a failed state, your poor die because they can’t afford hospitals, your rich steal everything they want, and use your armed forces as their toys.
You are a disgrace, shame on all of you for not introducing this man and his friends to Madame Guillotine.
The world see you as weak and it will take a generation to repair the dammage you have done to your reputation.
Fught for fucks sake are you just waiting for him to die so u can get a new dictator?
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. Interesting stuff!
The cost of the charade, eh parade:
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.I assume they’re wanting to do it for the U.S.’s LAST birthday?
Hopefully for Trump’s
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.
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.
Historically speaking, USSR / Russia, China, and NK have loved to talk up the capabilities of their kit, and these parades were a big part of that. They have frequently failed to deliver on all of their promised capabilities.
In the United States we have done the opposite. We don’t talk about our latest gen aircraft programs; we hide them out in the desert. When we do talk we remain cagey about what we have for years and decades, until long after we’ve started selling it to allies.
I understand that this parade will not show off our real capabilities (not at 25 tanks anyway), but I am saddened that the man feels like he needs to stoop to the level of the adversaries we’ve held for so long.
He’s mad that Putin and el-Sisi both got cool military parades. I remember him wanting to do this in his first term.
