Summary
Trump is planning a $92 million military parade on June 14, 2025—his 79th birthday, Flag Day, and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.
The four-mile event, from the Pentagon to the White House, revives a long-desired spectacle Trump previously canceled in 2018 over costs.
He has since overhauled military leadership, removing top Pentagon officials and replacing them with loyalists likely to support the parade.
D.C. officials, facing pressure from Trump’s federal overreach, have shown little resistance. Critics call it a vanity project amid broader concerns about authoritarian tendencies.
Where’s DOGE on this waste and abuse?
Can’t have a parade if doge fires the entire military!!!
Wow, America, you’ve really let an old failure of a person -and Russian asset- turn your country into a dictatorship without as much as a whimper.
Who knew it would be so easy to do it that a failed reality TV star could do it?It’s hilarious, yet shockingly sad, to see this in real time.
I mean, yeah, if it was an evil genius then I could see how it could happen, but to a conman like tRUMP? Christ.It was kind of planned. They kept making people more and more stupid thinking it will make them easier to control. What they didn’t expect is that people will get so stupid they will stop listening to them and choose other idiot instead.
Social media and News brainrot did all the heavy lifting for the last 10 years.
Anyone in the military that goes along with this should be removed for treason
i still think he’s just putting all of the military’s eggs in one basket so russia can kill them all with one bomb.
I think this
charadeparade is both a play to his MAGA base and a sort of loyalty test to see who in the military goes along with him.
Sounds like a great opportunity for a massive protest.
The secret service has got to be losing their fucking minds over this. There is literally no way such an event would end well and it’s just not practical to secure such a thing.
Wouldn’t it be hysterical if Trump’s ego was what ended all this?
If he goes anywhere near a book repository in Texas, he’s fucked.
I wonder if the military are practicing the goose step
4 mile stretch. I hope they run out of people the first mile and they have to run to get in front of the parade to make it look like it’s full. I hope an eagle shits right on his head too.
So how do veterans feel about this? Lousy ass draft dodger Private Bonespurs forcing the military to prance around in his honor?
Will he get to wear a giant hat? He should also have a fake military outfit with more medals than anyone.
What does the efficiency experts say about this spending? Seems a bit of a waste of cash. I mean if we have to fire thousands of people because they cost too much…then why waste it here. We don’t need this, we don’t need him.
It’d be an awful shame if a nuclear bomb went off during the parade. The news the next day would probably read: Nuke in downtown DC, nothing of value lost.
I’d say we should throw rotten eggs and tomatoes, but we won’t be able to afford that.
For clarity: I despise everything about Trump.
But celebrating the 250th anniversary of the army is a logical thing to do. Most countries around the world, even democracies, would do that. Look at for example the parades in France.
The thing Trump is doing wrong in this scenario is that he makes it about him. He is having a parade for his birthday, not the 250th birthday of the army. Fucking narcissist.
I’m really angry about this. A lot of soldiers have suffered and died protecting us, he’s NEVER done that. How dare he slap veterans in the face like that?
But he had to overcome Bone spurs
Soldiers who suffered and died to protect us from literally this.
Ha! True.
The US has never celebrated any anniversary of any military branch with a public Soviet-era parade like this. And I assume there will be no marines and no aircraft, since their anniversary does not overlap with the army.
Let’s not sanewash this.
Don’t really have a problem with a $92,000,000 parade so much as I have a problem with the 1,000,000,000,000 military budget.
Edit: It appears I have offended the libs by trying to bring it back to a larger systemic issue rather than freaking out over aesthetics. My apologies.
You know only tinpot dictators have military parades for themselves, right? Normal leaders don’t do that. Normal democracies don’t do that.
Oh, I just noticed your instance. Carry on, comrade.
Are we acting like this is the first time the US has had a military parade in history for some reason? Pretty much every country has military parades. If “only tinpot dictators have military parades,” then name a country that isn’t a tinpot dictatorship.
Yeah I’m not getting into a discussion with you. I clearly said "for themselves*.
Have a good day.
Sounds like a very important distinction to you, for some reason.
It is a very important distinction. I can’t even imagine the prime minister of my home country insisting on a military parade for his birthday. He’d be laughed out of parliament, because it’s fucking ridiculous.
Having a parade as part of some event, for an anniversary or something, that’s one thing. But this is Trump wanting one for his own personal glory. That’s actually something only dictators do. Kim Jong Un loves parades. Hitler loved parades. Mussolini loved parades.
I guess maybe it’s not so weird that Trump wants one too, considering who he wants to emulate.
It is a very important distinction. I can’t even imagine the prime minister of my home country insisting on a military parade for his birthday.
It’s not even a real distinction because it’s also the Army’s 250th anniversary.
Even if that wasn’t the case, it’s a totally meaningless and purely aesthetic distinction. “Oh this kinda has the vibe of something bad people do,” that’s the only real objection to it that any of you have.
The legitimate reason to care is because it’s glamourizing the US military, which is an incredibly evil institution. Even so, of the things the military does, a parade is one of the most innocent and innoculous. But between glamorizing a shitty president or a shitty institution, why should anyone give a shit?
Insane that there’s people in this thread being like, “I should stop paying taxes.” Really, this is where you draw the line? Hundreds of thousands of civilians murdered in illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, but Bush never had a parade to celebrate himself so I guess it’s fine! I’ll never understand liberals’ priorities.
Yeah, you know, I’m not actually American and I don’t pay homage to any army. And I hope you didn’t truly conclude from my post that this parade bullshit is the only thing I dislike about Trump, or that due to a lack thereof somehow I approved of Bush? Come on, even you know that’s just a poor straw man.
That said, I don’t disagree at all with the other stuff you’re saying, you are absolutely right. I’m just telling you that no normal (and by normal, I don’t necessarily mean good!) leader (i.e. one who is not a megalomaniac, a narcissist or a (wannabe) dictator) would demand a military parade for their birthday. Honestly not. And even if you don’t care because it’s “symbolic,” you should still care because it shows you the type of person he is. The fact that it’s “also the army’s 250th birthday” is irrelevant, because it’s irrelevant to Trump. HE wants a birthday parade for HIS birthday. He thinks he deserves it. He thinks his birthday is worth a 100 million dollars and he doesn’t give a fuck that the tax payers are footing the bill.
Trump sees himself as the institution. That’s the whole point. The U.S., that’s him. The government, it’s him. L’État, c’est moi.
Now if it were me I’d abolish military parades completely, because imo it’s just a waste of money. But the fact that Trump wants one for himself is just another page out of his Dictator handbook.
Definitely going. It’s gonna be the hugest, best parade ever, like no one’s ever seen. Spectacular.
I’m 100% convinced DOGE will stop this as it is not very efficient use of tax money.
Just like the millions in taxpayer money that has to be spent keeping Agent Orange safe when he goes golfing… at his own resorts, funneling the money to himself.
They’ll spin it as necessary and patriotic to lift the spirits of the American people, or some bullshit like that.
I stand with DOGE in this pursuit
Sorry but DOGE only gets involved when the government uses tax payer money to feed starving children or help keep old people from ending up on the street.
