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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Calling it incredibly exciting news, President Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday that his long-planned Fourth of July parade in Washington will include a flyover by Russian Su-24 fighter planes.
These are beautiful, gleaming Russian planes, Trump boasted to Tucker Carlson, of Fox News. Im the first American President whos had Russian fighters flying over Washington.
He said that he finalized the flyover deal while speaking to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, at the G-20 Summit last week. Putin said, This is the least we can do, after all youve done for us, Trump said.
Trump said he imagined that the crews of the Russian military aircraft will be thrilled to fly over the nations capital. Im sure theyll be taking a lot of pictures, he said.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trumps-fourth-of-july-parade-to-include-flyover-by-russian-air-force?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Borowitz_070319&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9f8cb24c17c6adf0e5d24&cndid=25394153&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Borowitz
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)It's a sad commentary on our times when the lines between satire and reality are blurred like that.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)What times we live in.
Nevermypresident
(781 posts)It makes me want to vomit at the thought of Putin laughing his ass off.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)But, yeah. I read the subject line and yelled "what the h***" out loud. Then I checked the source.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)a Russian contingent at the Trump-fest. If Republicans can't celebrate the 4th in Russia, than their Russian-best-buds have to come here.