In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Trump also outlined a White House renovation he hopes to carry out — which he said he will pay for himself.
Throw peanuts at him during the parade.
Fast velocity metal peanuts.
Oh no need to be violent. circus peanuts are bad enough and just as lethal.
Make is so the “parade” didn’t happen. Boycott everything about it. Boycott any news. Do not mention it. Change the subject if anyone mentions it. Turn off any television channel or news that covers it. Vanish it. You never heard about it.
Who CARES about the Price Tag? THIS is EXACTLY why we ELIMINATED the Department of Education and Social Security and the VA! So we can Afford a Birthday Party for Trump!
We have become the USSR during the cold war, but only because some fat asshole wants to cheer for himself. The Soviets did it to showcase their weaponry to the world. This one is just doing it to feel important. No one questions if we have the most advanced weapons.
I always felt that Trump is more Jeltzin than Putin. As in, the bumbling fool that paves the way for the oligarchic dictatorship that follows. As soon as he isn’t useful, the real fascists behind him will drop him immediately.
That’s a troubling assessment because it sounds likely.
Dear Leader knows that birthday military parades are far more important than wasteful spending like meals-on-wheels, education, cancer research, and veterans’ benefits such as the veterans’ suicide hotline. You are all guilty of wrongthink. Thank you Dear Leader. Glory to the Supreme Leader and the party.
Hey! Dear Leader is awesome and I won’t have you talking shit about him. Now, let us salute Dear Leader and sing a patriotic song in his honor. Because freedumb, damnit!
military parades have no value
For the strongest military in the world, it’s degrading. This is pure government waste. Only a malignant narcissist could find value in this.
I’ve found Air Shows and AFB Open Houses to be WAY better at showcasing military assets and personnel to the public and driving recruitment. Military parades are pretty cringe.
True.
But what’s also true is the fighter pilot flyovers, anthem, and pledge of allegiance. All of them are problematic and should have ended long ago.
Like, I just get tired of people acting like trump came out of nowhere and shit was perfect.
We can’t just keep watching the right destroy shit, then settle for a pause in the damage. We need to start fixing shit before there’s nothing left to be fixed.
America replaced patriotism with nationalism decades ago, and refusing to address it will make another trump a question of “when” not “if”.
I agree on the whole anthem/pledge thing, but flyovers do have at least some value in that they give pilots flight hours. Those planes would have to be in the air anyway for training, so they might as well use them for advertising via flyovers.
Or…
And this is a crazy thought…
They could do the training?
Like, you said you agree the anthem at sporting events is dumb, so when exactly will the flyovers happen?
Have you never been to an airshow?
You think that’s adequate training for active fighter pilots?
That would explain the downvotes, it’s not like flying commercial where you just need hours in the sky, it involves specific maneuvers and simulated dogfighting at highspeed.
It’s like saying NBA players should practice by playing Cornhole, it makes sense if you don’t understand either activity and think throwing something thru a hole is close enough…
Yes, hours are hours and fighter pilots and all the support staff involved need them too. When I was in the military the helicopter pilots would fly down to Florida and get lunch. They needed the hours and were going to by flying anyways.
It’s not just the pilot. The take off crew, the landing, the comms, it’s still a mission.
I mean shit, based on the kind of training equipment Ive seen, the pilots being in the air is just a tiny part of the effort. Especially for naval aircraft. I would assume the same for air force, but they don’t typically land on boats.
But what’s also true is the fighter pilot flyovers,
Not positive on this one, but I think pilots need to regularly fly a certain number of hours in different types of aircraft to maintain their pilot rating or improve it. If they have to fly anyway, at least this way taxpayers get to see what they’re paying for instead of the same flight hours occurring over some desert or mountain range far away from people.
They do.
However the flyovers and other military displays during sporting events were originally done as a recruitment tool.
An advertisement for the military.
It has nothing to do with deliberately planning flight hours for pilots, the hours are a secondary benefit.
For the people.
It has immense propaganda value. Look at North Korea and Russia. They regularly parade their military to look powerful.
For them, they literally carry a big stick in the hopes that no one will challenge them.
Trump is doing it so that he can show the world how powerful he is. Not by military might but by forcing the government to do the parade.
This value alone is worth 10 times the cost for Trump. Remember that it’s about his ego. And also remember that Trump isn’t paying a damn cent. We are. He’s thumbing his nose at us.
That value is worth 100 times the cost.
Except to piss off your troops. I HATED being in parades to celebrate some general or another retiring. Then there’s the potential for heat injuries and troops just passing out from standing so long.
Sounds about right. You really want to honor the troops then how about taking that money and cutting every active and reservist soldier a check?
Or not gutting the VA.
Trump proceeds to take “that money and cutting every active and reservist soldier”
Even small parades for pass and review used to result in at least a few soldiers falling out in formation. I can only imagine how long these 7000 people are going to be outside, in the heat, wasting time, before the parade even starts. Based on my own experience, these things are never well organized and with Trump’s butt-monkeys in charge, I expect worse results than usual. Some soldiers will probably die for this parade. Happy Birthday to Dear Leader, I guess.
Seriously… I can only imagine they’ll have to hurry up and wait extremely early and be out there for hours. If it were me, I’d be PISSED
Remember to be 30 minutes early for the commander an additional 30 minutes early for the first-sergeant and another 30 minutes early for the platoon sergeant. Commander wants you there at 08:00 and by the time it passes through the chain, you have to show up at 06:00 and stand around for 2 hours so that when the commander shows up late at like 08:30 he or she can tell you to wait around in the sun for two more hours before the practice starts. By 10:00, six people have passed out and no one knows who was supposed to bring the water and the practice hasn’t even started yet. I love military parades. /s
What I’m hearing is that nothing would piss off these military personnel more than if a whole lot of citizens decided to show up and slow this parade to a standatill.
The military personnel aren’t the problem. Most of them are poor and working class. They aren’t there because they want to oppress Americans, that’s the police. Military members usually join because they are poor and want healthcare and education benefits for themselves and their families. They are disproportionately people of color. I am Caucasian but the unit I went to Afghanistan with was over 50% Black and we had one guy whose family was from India. Things are getting bad under Trump but the military has also long been a refuge for gay people from religious conservative rural communities. Their families disown them and refuse to support them so they join up. There are lots of lesbians in the Air Force and gay men in all branches. I hope that most would refuse orders to attack or oppress Americans but I can’t say for sure. A lot of them are also dumb MAGA redneck idiots.
People forget the standard advice: Don’t lock up your legs, bend your knees just enough to have a little movement without it being noticeable at a distance. Gotta find the sweet spot of hydrated without overshooting into the “have to pee every 10 minutes” range too.
Correct
keep on seeing more costs than any other administration and no returns. He constantly talks about fictional money we are getting and downplays or straight out tries to get rid of any actual accounting.
I post this to mock the premise of the whole thing, especially the part where he’ll “pay for it himself.” The only thing he pays for is sex, lawyers, and bribes.
He doesn’t even pay his lawyers. I’m willing to bet he’s refused to pay a few hookers as well.
It’s amazing how he hit that level of scumbag where the default response is victim blaming, anytime there’s a story about him not paying it always ends up at “are you surprised? That’s what he does.”
That’s still wrong though? I hate how he gets such a free pass
He’s proven that he can’t be reasoned with and is effectively immune from accountability. At this point, casting blame upon him is essentially the same as blaming a natural disaster for the destruction it causes. If you get burned while playing with fire, would it be rational to blame the fire?
I also hate that that’s our reality. But I see people arguing that blaming Democrats for dropping the ball gives Trump and the Republican party a free pass to be shitty and this is my dilemma.
I think it’s more schadenfreude than victim blaming - that and a dash of Leopards Eating My Face. Those type of comments are usually under such stories as MAGA lawyers lining up to handle his nonsense lawsuits in order to ride his coattails to fame and wealth, only to be abandoned when they fail to get results. Victim blaming would imply they’re actually victims instead of grifters stupidly working under another grifter.
I’ve always gotten, “well yeah, it’s smart not to pay, that’s why he’s a good businessman”
Funny that they equate “businessman” to “liar, cheat, thief”, yet continue to idolize businessmen like Musk.
When you have a society that idolizes the richest with little consideration to how they got there, eventually the only qualification or sign of competence required by that society is the size of your bank account.
The ironic thing is that this time he probably can pay for it, now that he has turned his second presidency into a bribe magnet through the power of Crypto Shitcoins. He won’t, but he can.
That’s the renovation—a sex swing in the Oval Office.
You think he pays directly for sex?
The glove-bedecked intern leaves it on the bedstand
Who probably is forced to watch and say “good job sir”.
Remember the last thing trump promised that would paid for? Did we get that check from Mexico for the wall yet from your first term, Mr trump?
I think the order is usually sex, bribes, and then lawyers
We have to hunker down and spend less but he gets a parade. And yet they’ll still defend this nonsense.
I hate to say it but the white house does require renovation every once in awhile. I don’t believe that Trump understands that and it was just tacked on by his staff. However it is a historic landmark. That will need airing out when Trump drops dead.
There’s renovation in keeping with the intent and history of the building, and then there’s trump’s ostentatious and tacky design preferences.
To be fair the trees were Melania
and actually kinda dopeWooden is a good way to describe her.
“Everyone else gets one doll, I get golden statues and parades, because I am the greatest and you guys are so selfish and greedy for wanting more then one doll, that’s like taking a golden calf from my back patio, and that would just make me so angry, because I am the greatest, that’s why I get all the dolls for my birthday parade. Suffer for me, and I’ll make sure you don’t suffer as my boot is on your neck”
Can someone just give him some peanuts and skip the parade?
He wants to hold it on flag day which is so important that we don’t even get the day off for it. It’s not even the 250th anniversary of flag day; it’s the 248th. This is just for his own stupid vanity and selfishness (not that this needed to be explained to anyone).
Trump also outlined a White House renovation he hopes to carry out — which he said he will pay for himself.
Makes sense as he more than likely doesn’t plan on leaving…
Some garish, tasteless, gold shit everywhere.
Tasteless isn’t even the word. It’s like anti-taste, negative taste, taste-less.
Tin pot.
