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resident Trumps vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand military parade later this year showcasing the might of Americas armed forces.
Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagons tank a room reserved for top secret discussions marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the planning.
Surrounded by the militarys highest ranking officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford, Trumps seemingly abstract desire for a parade was suddenly heard as a presidential directive, the officials said.
The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France, said a military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the planning discussions are supposed to remain confidential. This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-marching-orders-to-the-pentagon-plan-a-grand-military-parade/2018/02/06/9e19ca88-0b55-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.45ec0a6f83f8
milestogo
(16,829 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 6, 2018, 09:54 PM - Edit history (1)
Wanna be dictator OrangeTurd
pansypoo53219
(20,996 posts)Botany
(70,584 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)He's certifiable now.
riversedge
(70,304 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)It could happen. Please, sweet Jesus.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,196 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You think a leprechaun stole it?
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)but I still laughed at your comment
demigoddess
(6,644 posts)I say this as a military wife for 23 years, and military brat. My father was in WWII and Korea, my dad in Korea and retired after 20 years. My uncle served in WWII and various other uncles in the military in all eras. My brother was in the military. This guy in the picture is a wanna-bee.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)wear their military uniform after service. This guy is a wannabe/neverwas.🤡 I meant former members, not former vets. Sorry to all vet.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Cha
(297,666 posts)doc03
(35,371 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Freethinker65
(10,049 posts)That should mean about one or two blocks. Then time for a nap and everyone goes home.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Freethinker65
(10,049 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,856 posts)malthaussen
(17,216 posts)-- Mal
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)He's jealous of him (and probably Putin too)!
underpants
(182,880 posts)Endless inspections and practicing and standing around. Change of commands were the worst. Everyday in our "good" BDU's and spit shined boots. Then after a weeke of practice in the airfield they cut the grass - clippings everywhere and bugs. Standing at attention or parade rest for hours with bugs buzzing around biting. That was for a change of command at my regular unit.
Right before graduating from basic getting ready for the ceremony they had us pick up a set of bleachers and carry it about a mile to where the Marines trained (Ft. Knox). Two drill Sgts just finishing school took us. We unlocked the chain and started pulling this one out and then this one, finally they decided on one and we locked everything up and carried it back. After we fell out I walked up to the two Drills and said, "Can I ask you a question?"
"Yeah sure"
"Aren't those the same bleachers we took up there?"
They both started chuckling and one said, " Welcome to the Army"
Wounded Bear
(58,712 posts)Parades are a colossal pain in the ass for those marching in them.
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,486 posts)Covered with medals.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,486 posts)Dear Leader, in the excessive flesh.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)MariaCSR
(642 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)military. It's gonna look like a coup.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)jrthin
(4,837 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)but people had to hold their noses.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,886 posts)Beware........
NanceGreggs
(27,818 posts)... so eloquently put it a few weeks back: "It looks like Trump picked the wrong country to be president of."
annabanana
(52,791 posts)The way we watched protests against the Iraq invasion in '03..
VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)That does nothing to promote readiness and just feeds the vanity of our malignant narcissist pResident. He makes me physically I'll just thinking about himm
hatrack
(59,592 posts).
spanone
(135,877 posts)Dictator Don is going full Strongman
FUCK THIS SHIT
0rganism
(23,970 posts)i automatically doubt any potential claims that this parade is about anything other than pumping up his obese ego and further inflating his approval numbers among Republicans
tblue37
(65,488 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,485 posts)SiobhanClancy
(2,955 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,485 posts)madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Astronomical cost to ship all those tanks and things. They say it will tear up the asphalt, which will have to be repaired.
Ugh! Ugh ugh ugh!
We don't DO things like this in America!
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Much easier for a surprise attack to take it all out at once. Putin's plan is working perfectly.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Freethinker65
(10,049 posts)I do not want any of my tax dollars funding this narcissistic exercise.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Vinca
(50,304 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)Remember the empty grandstands during the inaugural parade? They'll have to haul rubes from the hinterlands.
And what a massive waste of money.
Luciferous
(6,085 posts)moondust
(20,006 posts)Oneironaut
(5,524 posts)His "grand" vision for this country is goose-stepping soldiers in military parades, military goons dragging his rivals off into the night, and hereditary rule for his family.
trof
(54,256 posts)Holee shit.
Really?
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Ohiogal
(32,066 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)with protest signs.
Wounded Bear
(58,712 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I have never attended a protest. But is he goes thru with I will join the millions of Americans who show up to protest. Even my republican friends would be horrified.
That might be when Trump jumps the shark.
And please let him wear a red, white and blue sash or better yet a uniform.
struggle4progress
(118,345 posts)Let us examine .. the provision .. contained in the new Constitution, for restraining the appropriations of money for military purposes to the period of two years ...
The legislature of the United States will be OBLIGED, by this provision, once at least in every two years, to deliberate upon the propriety of keeping a military force on foot ... They are not AT LIBERTY to vest in the executive department permanent funds for the support of an army ... As often as the question comes forward, the public attention will be roused and attracted to the subject, by the party in opposition; and if the majority should be really disposed to exceed the proper limits, the community will be warned of the danger, and will have an opportunity .. to guard against it ...
http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fed26.htm
This Federalist paper discusses Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 of the US Constitution, which is intended to limit formation of a standing army: "The Congress shall have Power To ... raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years"
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)He "loves war" and is so enamored of all things military, but those damned bone spurs cost him the chance to serve this country he is now dictator of.
struggle4progress
(118,345 posts)This world in arms in not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron ...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9743.htm
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I don't know what Washington D.C. calls it, but in Florida it's called the Baker Act. He's need to be picked up and place in a mental health facility.
Initech
(100,103 posts)struggle4progress
(118,345 posts)Or like this?
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lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)trueblue2007
(17,238 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)parade. This fucking lilly-livered coward who couldn't even fight for his country dares to present himself as a military hero? What a joke!
It amazes me that any military people have any respect for him at all. He is an absolute disgrace!
VOX
(22,976 posts)Just like we, the poor-fuck taxpayers, will have to pay for the goddamned wall-fence-whatever.
Every time theres a thrilling flyover of USAF jets over a ballpark, it comes out of the bloated defense budget. This unholy idea of a FASCIST look how big and hard my dick is circus if it comes to pass will be on the taxpayers.
Wondering if gladiatorial contests to-the-death will make a comeback soon, since Trump and Caligula are spirit-brothers.
Jesus, but this country is in the fucking toilet, a genuine shithole, thanks to Trump and the bible-beating, asshole Repugs who lick the soles of his shoes and massage his orange ass with velvet.
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)I don't want to pay for this BS.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)tweeted that from afar it looks like the Pentagon leaked Trump's parade order to WaPo to try to scuttle the idea because they can't say no to their Commander in Chief.
This article currently has over 4500 comments on it, 99% of them negative. I think it worked. Maybe.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,201 posts)I'd rather see it spent helping our veterans.
Oh and my dad was career Navy. I serve 3 years active duty in the Army.
onecaliberal
(32,897 posts)liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)MythosMaster
(445 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Set your disbelief aside it's a done deal.
They will tie it into veterans day. They will say anyone who disapproves is un-American. They want this more than anything. Veterans Day is the 11th Y'all, when is that election again?
Anyone who protests risks confrontation with American soldiers. They want this too
Quixote1818
(28,971 posts)The city stopped allowing them for that reason.
Demsrule86
(68,683 posts)as Tammy Duckworth calls the orange menace is so obsessed with the military...none of his worthless family ever served.
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)Plunging the US into $1.4 trillion (so far) isn't enough?