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(34,195 posts)
Sun May 3, 2020, 10:15 PM May 2020

Hundreds of Florida boaters throw boat parade in support of Trump

Scores of boaters in Florida participated in a boat parade in support of President Trump that was bound for Mar-a-Lago over the weekend. According to a local NBC station, hundreds sailed in the parade, which began at the Jupiter Inlet around Sunday afternoon and ended several hours later at the president’s resort in Palm Beach.

A Facebook page set up for the event dubbed it the “TRUMP Boat Parade.” It asked boaters participating to fly their “favorite TRUMP flag and USA Flag.”
"Don't miss this event it's going to be ‘HUGE.’ Lets honor President Trump for all he is doing to ‘Keep America Great!’” the event page also said, referring to the president’s 2016 campaign slogan.

The tweet also featured a video of the parade, in which groups of people could be heard cheering from their boats, many of which were decorated in pro-Trump gear, as an instrumental of “The Star-Spangled Banner” blared in the background.

Trump thanked the boaters in a tweet later on Sunday and vowed to “never let” them down.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/495899-hundreds-of-florida-boaters-throw-boat-parade-in-support-of

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Hundreds of Florida boaters throw boat parade in support of Trump (Original Post) left-of-center2012 May 2020 OP
Us rich folks have to montanacowboy May 2020 #1
+1, uponit7771 May 2020 #7
When's hurricane season? Throck May 2020 #2
Don't even joke about that! They hurt DU members as well! GulfCoast66 May 2020 #5
Is this a B movie, where they attack the alien ship using their yachts? lol ffr May 2020 #3
I see one or two almost every time we take the boat out. GulfCoast66 May 2020 #4
Killing 65,000 Americans cause he had his finger up his ass for 6 weeks is letting them down uponit7771 May 2020 #6
Sail on, Titanic, sail on n/t Vogon_Glory May 2020 #8
The idle rich really are idle Walleye May 2020 #9
Of course he won't let millionaires down LeftInTX May 2020 #10
the nbc station should have run with onethatcares May 2020 #11

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
4. I see one or two almost every time we take the boat out.
Sun May 3, 2020, 10:36 PM
May 2020

We are furloughed so taking the boat to the gulf once a week. Last Tuesday I did not see any trump flags. But normally I see one, sometimes 2. They are normally on 2 different kinds of boats. The big boys with multiple 200+ HP engines that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Or scows that barely look seaworthy. Rarely seen on well kept single engine 18-22 foot boats like ours.

My personal favs are the ragged out looking party barges that are going out way to far for that type of boat. Earlier this spring I saw a pontoon in 1-2 foot seas, or chop to be more accurate, trying to fight their way in 5-7 miles off shore. But had their trump flag flying. I guess if you are stupid enough to run that far out on a day that the wind is predicted to pick up then Covid19 seems like no risk at all. Just chuckled as we blew by them at 30 knots.

onethatcares

(16,168 posts)
11. the nbc station should have run with
Mon May 4, 2020, 07:25 AM
May 2020

"Thousands of boaters did not participate in a water clogging drive down the intercoastal".

I'm thinking that the scenes at the boat ramps were pure gold.

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