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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 09:49 AM Aug 2018

Trump Mocked After Cancelling Military Parade: Plan 'Substitute Parade' For Everyone With...

Trump Mocked After Cancelling Military Parade: Plan ‘Substitute Parade’ For Everyone With ‘Bone Spurs’

by Caleb Ecarma | Aug 17th, 2018, 9:34 am

President Donald Trump officially announced the cancellations of plans to host a military parade in Washington, D.C., as the $92 million cost estimate was too high — and Twitter was quick to mock him for even dreaming up the outlandish proposition.

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The $92 million number came from a CNBC report released yesterday, which said the Pentagon required $50 million to fund the parade, while Homeland Security required $42 million.

As for Trump’s desire for parades, they began last year after he visited France to meet with Emmanuel Macron and became enamored with the country’s military festivities. “Because of what I witnessed, we may do something like that on July 4th in Washington down Pennsylvania [Avenue],” Trump tweeted last year. “We’re thinking … of having a really great parade, to show our military strength.”

Check out a few of the reactions from pundits, writers, and journalists mocking or criticizing Trump after cancelling his long sought-after parade:


















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Trump Mocked After Cancelling Military Parade: Plan 'Substitute Parade' For Everyone With... (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
The only march I want to see is marching his butt off to prison. Frustratedlady Aug 2018 #1
I wish it were Mueller Time. area51 Aug 2018 #12
There will be parades free to all when rump goes frog leaping towards a jail cell... SWBTATTReg Aug 2018 #2
How much will it cost the American taxpayers for trump and justhanginon Aug 2018 #3
How much did it cost to plan this parade that he canecelled? ooky Aug 2018 #10
tell you what, don. why don't we just cut your security detail...that's probably worth a few million spanone Aug 2018 #4
Let his people give him a parade dalton99a Aug 2018 #5
If he hadn't gone golfing, he could have had a parade C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #6
All the men with a bone spur deferment? That would be one! pwb Aug 2018 #7
you wonder bdamomma Aug 2018 #8
K&R Scurrilous Aug 2018 #9
He can just watch this! Dread Pirate Roberts Aug 2018 #11
Make his voters pay Johnny2X2X Aug 2018 #13
Andrews does not have a parade; they have an annual airshow. Old Terp Aug 2018 #14
"I'm spending Veterans Day in France because they'll have a parade!" struggle4progress Aug 2018 #15

SWBTATTReg

(22,144 posts)
2. There will be parades free to all when rump goes frog leaping towards a jail cell...
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 10:08 AM
Aug 2018

I'd think everybody would pitch in w/ donations to have parades should this ever happen...

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
3. How much will it cost the American taxpayers for trump and
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 10:09 AM
Aug 2018

his hangers on to travel to Paris to see a GD parade?
Does this sh*t never end?

ooky

(8,924 posts)
10. How much did it cost to plan this parade that he canecelled?
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 11:24 AM
Aug 2018

How many Pentagon man hours already invested in this stupid parade? God what a dumb
president.

spanone

(135,851 posts)
4. tell you what, don. why don't we just cut your security detail...that's probably worth a few million
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 10:10 AM
Aug 2018

you piece of shit you

pwb

(11,280 posts)
7. All the men with a bone spur deferment? That would be one!
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 10:45 AM
Aug 2018

We were never checked for bone spurs. Only for flat feet. Trumps personal doctor thought up that beauty, bone spurs. 😂

Johnny2X2X

(19,074 posts)
13. Make his voters pay
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 02:07 PM
Aug 2018

If Trump can convince just 10,000 of his voters to show up for the parade, he can charge them admission. Heck, that would be only $92,000 each.

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