Trump was impressed with the Bastille parade in France and wants a bigger one.
Trump Wants a Big Military Parade
The Associated Press notes Army Plans for a Potential Parade on Trump’s Birthday with 6,600 Soldiers.
Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
The planning documents, obtained by the AP, are dated April 29 and 30 and have not been publicly released.
The Army anniversary just happens to coincide with Trump’s 79th birthday on June 14.
While the slides do not include any price estimates, it would likely cost tens of millions of dollars to put on a parade of that size. Costs would include the movement of military vehicles, equipment, aircraft and troops from across the country to Washington and the need to feed and house thousands of service members.
High costs halted Trump’s push for a parade in his first term, and the tanks and other heavy vehicles that are part of the Army’s latest plans have raised concerns from city officials about damage to roads.
Asked about plans for a parade, Army spokesman Steve Warren said Thursday that no final decisions have been made.
In a Truth Social post Thursday night that did not mention the June 14 plans, Trump wrote, “We are going to start celebrating our victories again!” He vowed to rename May 8, now known as Victory in Europe Day, as “Victory Day for World War II,” and to change November 11, Veterans Day, to “Victory Day for World War I.”
The Army’s early festival plans did not include a parade, but officials confirmed last month that the Army had started discussions about adding one.
According to the plan, the parade would be classified as a national special security event, and that request has been submitted by the National Park Service and is under review.
Trump Has Long Wanted a Big Military Parade
In his first term, Trump proposed having a parade after seeing one in France on Bastille Day in 2017. Trump said that after watching the two-hour procession along the famed Champs-Elysees that he wanted an even grander one on Pennsylvania Avenue.
That plan was ultimately dumped due to the huge costs — with one estimate of a $92 million price tag — and other logistical issues. Among those were objections from city officials who said including tanks and other heavy armored vehicles would tear up the roads.
Trump said in a social media post in 2018 that he was canceling the event over the costs and accused local politicians of price gouging.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser acknowledged in April that the administration reached out to the city about holding a parade on June 14 that would stretch from Arlington, Virginia, where the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery are located, across the Potomac River and into Washington.
Bowser at the time said she didn’t know if the event was being “characterized as a military parade” but added that tanks rolling through the city’s streets “would not be good.”
“If military tanks were used, they should be accompanied with many millions of dollars to repair the roads,” she said.
In 2018, the Pentagon appeared to agree. A memo from the defense secretary’s staff said plans for the parade — at that time — would include only wheeled vehicles and no tanks to minimize damage to local infrastructure.
Who cares about costs. Bring in the tanks.
Trump Promises $1 trillion in Defense Spending for Next Year
On April 9, I noted Trump Promises $1 trillion in Defense Spending for Next Year
Even bigger budget deficits are now in store due to the first $1 trillion defense budget.
“We’re going to be approving a budget, and I’m proud to say, actually, the biggest one we’ve ever done for the military,” he said. “$1 trillion. Nobody has seen anything like it.
“We are getting a very, very powerful military. We have things under order now.”
It’s interesting to note that “We have things under order now,” before we even have a budget.
Well who cares about that?
Might I suggest we get more tanks to invade Canada, Mexico, and Greenland?
Waste, fraud and abuse.
or maybe Abu Dhabi can pay for it all using Trumps crypto.
Maybe we are seeing the reincarnation of Mussolini? How did he end?
What king of underwear will tump be wearing to his parade?
Depends…
Maybe the DOGE teens can put the kibosh on this genuine waste of taxpayer money.
They are cutting cancer research for children. That should leave plenty of money for a Trump birthday parade.
Trump put an end to DOGE , unfortunately. Elon isn’t in the WH anymore. Huge argument between Rubio & Elon. Trump asked him to leave. Trump never cared about waste. I think he used Elon to win election. Sad.
Military parades are bad. Somebody rubbed himself on my girlfriend during a military parade.
Moby rubbed his flacid penis in a NYC club against Donald Trump decades ago. true story.
Pam Bondi in Saturday’s cabinet meeting (and this was just one of several similar bootlicking statements from other cabinet members):
And now a parade of tanks in the street.
Looks like we’ve gone Full Stalin now.
Local parades on a small scale in villages etc. are cute, I like them. Military parades are stupid. I don’t even know why France is doing them.
To show how ready and able they are to ‘defeat Russia’ of course
Why not? Just because it’s Un-American? They do this in North Korea all the time. Great leaders deserve great military parades.
Genocide. First the Alawites and now the Druze in southern Syria. Over a hundred Druzed were massacred. Bibi bombed Al Golani palace and warned him: our forces will protect the Druze if u don’t. Al Golani: we will fight the zionist imperialists even without guns in our hands.
WWHD
What Would Hitler Do?
Have a birthday parade on April 20.
Something like this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFj_vq3cwk
Maybe the Dems have learned that publicity, without meeting the demands of the American people, results in political loss. Maybe not. But somebody here, seems not to have learned that all ads, all the time, all noise of whatever kind, will pale unless the masses get pretty tangible results, in a fairly reasonable time. FDR had more time to get going, but we were in a huge Depression, (after 3 years of GOP at the top), unlike now . Now, we are coming from reasonable (if somewhat imperfect) prosperity this year. And we cannot be isolated as much as Russians and North Koreans can in a media propaganda silo.
If he was smart (probably a biological impossibility) he’d lay low – this only reinforces his documented & significant loss of age-related mental acuity & his megalomaniac attributes. Of course Hegseth will be in his war-fighter heaven & glory.
Don’t see how this in anyway helps our military war fighting capability, unless it’s about conditioning the sheeple for war against AIPAC’s enemies. Lot of buzz coming out of swamp types regarding Iran. Hard not to notice that many of the people being moved around or out at DOD were NOT in favor of greater Middle East war involvement.
I’ve seen that headline before. Can’t remember if it was CNN or MS NBC.
Trump should pay for his own birthday party.
but for real folks I dont think Trump, same as Biden, does not know what the hell is going on nor do I think he cares Donald Trump began answering a question about Harvard University by speaking about Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/trump-town-hall-harlem-harvard-b2743100.html
Trump is smart. He was asked about Harvard, but talked about Harlem. ABC interview with Trump was a disaster. The puke media sent an asshole who kept interrupting him. He wasted his biggest career opportunity on a deported gang member instead of the big picture.
There is no bigger picture in the USA than the loss of due process. It is essential to liberty.
Biden open border was a threat to our democracy. The puke media is a threat to our democracy. Harvard is a threat to our democracy.
China military parades showed the world Xi’s iron fist. It woke us up for the first time, but we did nothing until Trump #2. Putin May 9 victory day parade in Red Sq showed Russia’s military power. Only a few Europeans guests will celebrated Stalin and FDR victory. Will Marco Rubio attend. Feminism is out. It’s all about power.
Just like the failing USSR’s military parades? North Korea’s military parades? This is the dimmest indicator of power in today’s world. Putin is not that stupid, though he uses similar tricks to rouse a nation stuck in a WW1 conflict on its own border against a weak foe, it can’t even win. Power is in tech you can’t see in a parade. It is in strong cyber protection. It is in economic vitality, indirectly reflected in ability to do a war from remote, as we did with Russia. It is not in some macho posing on a street. Laughable, silly. The Nazis had the flashiest public esprit but lost completely. Can you HEAR yourself, again categorically touting anything and everything, even the most random things, this man says or does?
90% of Mish commentators think that they are smarter than Trump. They automatically reject everything about him. And they are not alone. The puke media is poison. Don’t tell me to conform to your outdated world. People with and an open mind try to understand Trump in order to invest and and profit from him. Calling him a moron or zionist don is for useless idiots.
that’s because 99% of all commentators ARE smarter than Trump.
The dude hasn’t read a book since he was in college.
no, we don’t reject everything Trump says or does. it’s just most of that is idiotic. And as for the few things i do agree with, i don’t bother to comment on those as much because in my view COMPETENCY SHOULD BE THE DEFAULT.
I expect the POTUS not to be a third grader who needs to be given a cookie for not not crapping the bed every morning. talk about low expectations. we aren’t going to be out there clapping because something Trump did wasn’t completely idiotic.
and what i do expect is for the POTUS to not literally be undermining the economy of the US.
Russian’s military power is pathetic. a stupid parade doesn’t demonstrate actual power.
Tax cuts for the rich. Medicare and Medicaid cuts, and runaway inflation for everyone else, but Dementia Don gets a big birthday party with a bunch of toys and fawning sycophants.
will there be a parade every year on his birthday?
I can see the ridiculous gold monuments everywhere now. Just like every outdated loser dictator in the 20th century. Mussolini. Idi Amin. Etc.
Trump does remind one of Mussolini.
El Douche
obama seemed more mussolini like to me. benito was the toast of the nytimes…….i vote in italia and 2 us states.
He’s almost 80. It won’t be a very long parade.
And what if he wears diapers?
The next president will will revoke the Executive Order he used to honor his birthday.
Trump means the opposite of what he says.
He said he was looking for cuts in the military budget. Now he wants to increase it by $150 billion. That’s an 18% increase.
In January, Trump said he “loves” Medicare and Medicaid and “won’t touch them”. Now he’s touching them all over for $880 billion in cuts.
If people not on Medicare/Medicaid don’t think those cuts will affect them – get ready to pay higher premiums for reduced medical care access.
Medicare costs are far outstripping the amount of medicare payroll tax collections. RMD’s can affect medicare premiums if one has a large enough tax deferred nest egg.
Didn’t watch, but saw a link to a Tucker interview with Catherine Austin Fitts, which referenced an alleged $21 trillion missing dollars in government spending. Rumsfeld mentioned unaccounted Pentagon trillions just before 9/11.
There is always some leakage in government. Trump’s is no better, and in fact means fewer services to the public.
Yes, that was an interesting spin on Pentagon math “cuts”, dtj. Medicare will not be “touched” but it is clear states will shoulder more of the bill after an insane expansion of the medicaid programs in recent years. Totally unsustainable.
Big day for Trump. China caves, over one million Americans were added to payrolls, and the wheels didn’t come of the domestic auto industry.
How did China cave? They said what they’ve been saying for weeks namely they are happy to negotiate as long as the tariffs are eliminated first.
=China caves,
really? where did you get that?
are you proficient in Chinese (=mandarin) language?
or you just read some CIA induced propaganda from usual suspects cnn/bloomberg/fox?
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as far as / one million Americans/ concerns, i bet you are some kind of mor1on who knows nothing about how labor stats are collected in USA!!
only fool would believe anything coming from any gov entity! outside of course USA gov debt,
am i right?
Enjoy the new price of fixing your car.
this whole thing is two teenage girls who got in an argument want to make up but are playing a game of “she has to call me first”.
so for the past month we’ve had Bessent and Trump publicly say literally that they want China to call. Trump said Xi should call him, that it wouldn’t be a sign of weakness and that he would be treated very respectfully. He said this several times and Bessent said it more.
How childish and also weak. You cant’ claim the other side calling you means they caved to your power when you’ve been publicly been begging them to call you.
Lets’s gooooooo🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
As I and many others have suspected, DOGE uncovered waste will be replaced by other waste, clandestine or obvious.
I think it’s stupid. He can maybe have a big parade on July 4th and maybe some jets like the Blue Angels fly overhead, but this is stupid. How about a celebration in Hawaii in Pearl Harbor on the day it was attacked. How about Memorial Day a tribute to those who have fallen. His Birthday??? Trump is acting like an African dictator with this stupid parade. Whatever.
June 14th is Flag Day. The propaganda media want to make as it being because it is Trump’s birthday.
If you were to do a parade, why not veterans day, or the 4th of July? To do it on the presidents birthday seems like the action of a narcissistic sociopath.
what do you have against Flag Day?
Flag Day is on June 14 in the US.
Veterans and the fourth are already loaded with parades. A new Flag Day tradition would be cool.
The ‘peace’ president who supports genocide in Gaza and bombs peasants in Yemen wants a military parade to stroke his ego. Not what I voted for.
Vote for MAGA, get MIGA. It’s f’d up.
Qatar sued Israel in Hague. They dbl cross Bibi.The Emir mums in CMU a few years ago: we want to educate our children for a better world. Hamas teach children mein kampf. Rubio: 50k dead palestinians it absolutely hamas fault. They still dream about wiping out the zionist entity and killing all Jews. F**k them.
Why did Netanyahu support Hamas, and why is he holding Palestinian babies responsible for actions done by an Islamic terrorist group he himself supported when he knew they were terrorists and said they’re terrorists?
http://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
Who just handed the Trump family $2 billion in scam-coin purchases? How is that imaginably legal. or acceptable in terms of any norms of honesty or integrity?
Strange! Trump was called to serve and pretended to be too sick to serve then went for a round of tennis. Now a parade? At least Hitler was a war hero and not a phony, our modern version creates his own reality.
It sounds like something that would be staged in Moscow on May day in Red Square.
well it least there is a reason for that in Moscow!
karl 12, Hitler,Bonaparte and myriad lesser figures lost lives and fortunes in middle of russian winter for last 400 years
what exactly USA celebrates? killing Iraqi kids?
alx
We could save a lot of money if we only held parades for our victories. Vietnam? Nope. Afghanistan? Nope. Iraq? Nope.
We could have a little cake walk for the epic Battle of Grenada.
What are you talking about? The US won both Iraq wars and the one in Afghanistan.
It utterly failed at nation building afterwards, but the wars themselves were won so handily (esp the 1st Iraq war) that no nation will ever directly challenge the USA again on the battlefield.
Taking 20 years, trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives to replace the Taliban with the Taliban is winning?
That’s nation building. The US has failed miserably at that since forever.
Military wise we rolled over any Taliban we found in like 30 seconds. None dared face us, they simply hid in caves till we left.
If we were willing to ignore all the liberal bleeding hearts a home, the military could have gassed all the caves and anyone inside. Would have saved all the money involved in nation building but liberals wouldn’t allow it.
The US won both Iraq wars and the one in Afghanistan.
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jesus! even being troll you are horribly stupid !
Your response does not refute at all what the comment said, factually. You just repeated your bumper sticker slogan, with zero facts, with an insult attached. That says everything i need to hear about you.
The cold war kept the boys away in Europe, Korea and the ME. It kept unemployment low. Eisenhower and Stalin divided the world. Russia occupied the biggest land mass in the world and from Tokyo to Berlin and we ruled the waves. Those were Russia and the US glorious days. No glory to the UK. Vietnam was a bloody smoke screen to cover LBJ blood trail and blackmails. Biden cut our losses in Afghanistan. We still have about 3 dozens bases in the east surrounding China and Iran and a few unsinkable aircraft carriers in the pacific. We can sink China’s fleet with some help from our friends.
They lost MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. Obviously, you know nothing about history. Every September 11, we have reruns of the towers coming down and you see people crying and mourning their loves ones. So, the Russians have every reason to celebrate their victory over Nazi Germany. The had incredible death and destruction.
“We’re going to be approving a budget, and I’m proud to say, actually, the biggest one we’ve ever done for the military,” he said. “$1 trillion. Nobody has seen anything like it. “We are getting a very, very powerful military. We have things under order now.”
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what a moron!
I bet in 4th century DC, some current ruler of Rome said same in Rome senate.
It was fine and dandy and empire controlled most of civilized or semi civilized world
until West Visigoths moved in , and dude called Alaric I, King of West Visigoths sacked Rome and 1000 year city and empire was done!
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If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
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alx
Not quite “…1000 year city and empire was done” – the influence of the Roman Empire still has effects today (roads, education, water transport, etc etc).
https://youtu.be/9foi342LXQE?si=bUBEq7vRKevug15g&t=55
screw the moron trying to honor himself. no one ever celebrates flag day.
Exactly. Everyone waits one more day to celebrate Magna Carta day.
Mish jokes at the end by saying –Might I suggest we get more tanks to invade Canada, Mexico, and Greenland? Trump already joked about the 51st State for Canada but it was beleived my many serious voters and as a result they gave even more votes to re-elect our disasterous Leftist government. Mish can you please not give Trump– any more joking Ideas.
John, maybe the Canadian joke was Trump playing 5 dimensional chess. Get the Canadians pissed at us and it throws a temporary wrench in Tech Bros echoing the goals of 1930’s Technocracy to merge U.S., Mexico, Canada, and Greenland. All this while DJT talks of 51st state, etc. He provokes the reaction in order to protect us? Yeah, I know it’s a reach.
Carney’s ex-company Brookfield has deep financial ties with the Trump family
https://www.junonews.com/p/carneys-ex-company-brookfield-has
Gosh, next he’ll probably have a big gold statue made of himself…like one of those late-stage Roman emperors.
He should have it wearing the golden sneakers, bearing the scam-coin and digital trading cards and souvenir hats, and riding a golden calf, preferably with a slot for yet more donations, so those worshipers can abase themselves even more.
It’s unfortunate military parades are needed to undo all the Anti-American indoctrination public schools have produced in recent decades.
Ever see Monte Python’s “The Meaning of Life”? “Today we’re gonna’ do Marching up and down the square! That is unless any of you got anything BETTER to do.”
It’s unfortunate most parents send their kids to government schools for 12+ years.
Soak the taxpayer for the narcissistic event.
So he wants to be a proper banana Republic generale.