Trump defends the high price tag for his military parade: 'Peanuts compared to the value'
Trump defends the high price tag for his military parade: 'Peanuts compared to the value'
In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Trump also outlined a White House renovation he hopes to carry out — which he said he will pay for himself.
military parades have no value
For the strongest military in the world, it's degrading. This is pure government waste. Only a malignant narcissist could find value in this.
True.
But what's also true is the fighter pilot flyovers, anthem, and pledge of allegiance. All of them are problematic and should have ended long ago.
Like, I just get tired of people acting like trump came out of nowhere and shit was perfect.
We can't just keep watching the right destroy shit, then settle for a pause in the damage. We need to start fixing shit before there's nothing left to be fixed.
America replaced patriotism with nationalism decades ago, and refusing to address it will make another trump a question of "when" not "if".
I've found Air Shows and AFB Open Houses to be WAY better at showcasing military assets and personnel to the public and driving recruitment. Military parades are pretty cringe.
Except to piss off your troops. I HATED being in parades to celebrate some general or another retiring. Then there's the potential for heat injuries and troops just passing out from standing so long.
Sounds about right. You really want to honor the troops then how about taking that money and cutting every active and reservist soldier a check?
Even small parades for pass and review used to result in at least a few soldiers falling out in formation. I can only imagine how long these 7000 people are going to be outside, in the heat, wasting time, before the parade even starts. Based on my own experience, these things are never well organized and with Trump's butt-monkeys in charge, I expect worse results than usual. Some soldiers will probably die for this parade. Happy Birthday to Dear Leader, I guess.
For the people.
It has immense propaganda value. Look at North Korea and Russia. They regularly parade their military to look powerful.
For them, they literally carry a big stick in the hopes that no one will challenge them.
Trump is doing it so that he can show the world how powerful he is. Not by military might but by forcing the government to do the parade.
This value alone is worth 10 times the cost for Trump. Remember that it's about his ego. And also remember that Trump isn't paying a damn cent. We are. He's thumbing his nose at us.
That value is worth 100 times the cost.
Correct
I post this to mock the premise of the whole thing, especially the part where he’ll “pay for it himself.” The only thing he pays for is sex, lawyers, and bribes.
He doesn't even pay his lawyers. I'm willing to bet he's refused to pay a few hookers as well.
The ironic thing is that this time he probably can pay for it, now that he has turned his second presidency into a bribe magnet through the power of Crypto Shitcoins. He won't, but he can.
You think he pays directly for sex?
The glove-bedecked intern leaves it on the bedstand
Who probably is forced to watch and say "good job sir".
That’s the renovation—a sex swing in the Oval Office.
Remember the last thing trump promised that would paid for? Did we get that check from Mexico for the wall yet from your first term, Mr trump?
We have become the USSR during the cold war, but only because some fat asshole wants to cheer for himself. The Soviets did it to showcase their weaponry to the world. This one is just doing it to feel important. No one questions if we have the most advanced weapons.
I always felt that Trump is more Jeltzin than Putin. As in, the bumbling fool that paves the way for the oligarchic dictatorship that follows. As soon as he isn't useful, the real fascists behind him will drop him immediately.
That's a troubling assessment because it sounds likely.
Throw peanuts at him during the parade.
High velocity metal peanuts.
Oh no need to be violent. circus peanuts are bad enough and just as lethal.
Tomatoes, rotten eggs, wilted lettuce...
Dear Leader knows that birthday military parades are far more important than wasteful spending like meals-on-wheels, education, cancer research, and veterans' benefits such as the veterans' suicide hotline. You are all guilty of wrongthink. Thank you Dear Leader. Glory to the Supreme Leader and the party.
Hey! Dear Leader is awesome and I won't have you talking shit about him. Now, let us salute Dear Leader and sing a patriotic song in his honor. Because freedumb, damnit!
Who CARES about the Price Tag? THIS is EXACTLY why we ELIMINATED the Department of Education and Social Security and the VA! So we can Afford a Birthday Party for Trump!
keep on seeing more costs than any other administration and no returns. He constantly talks about fictional money we are getting and downplays or straight out tries to get rid of any actual accounting.
We have to hunker down and spend less but he gets a parade. And yet they’ll still defend this nonsense.
Make is so the "parade" didn't happen. Boycott everything about it. Boycott any news. Do not mention it. Change the subject if anyone mentions it. Turn off any television channel or news that covers it. Vanish it. You never heard about it.
“Everyone else gets one doll, I get golden statues and parades, because I am the greatest and you guys are so selfish and greedy for wanting more then one doll, that’s like taking a golden calf from my back patio, and that would just make me so angry, because I am the greatest, that’s why I get all the dolls for my birthday parade. Suffer for me, and I’ll make sure you don’t suffer as my boot is on your neck”
Can someone just give him some peanuts and skip the parade?
Trump also outlined a White House renovation he hopes to carry out — which he said he will pay for himself.
Makes sense as he more than likely doesn't plan on leaving...
Some garish, tasteless, gold shit everywhere.
Tasteless isn't even the word. It's like anti-taste, negative taste, taste-less.
He wants to hold it on flag day which is so important that we don’t even get the day off for it. It’s not even the 250th anniversary of flag day; it’s the 248th. This is just for his own stupid vanity and selfishness (not that this needed to be explained to anyone).
I hate to say it but the white house does require renovation every once in awhile. I don't believe that Trump understands that and it was just tacked on by his staff. However it is a historic landmark. That will need airing out when Trump drops dead.
There’s renovation in keeping with the intent and history of the building, and then there’s trump’s ostentatious and tacky design preferences.
Tin pot.
Trump's Triumph Parade
He will be wearing orange-face to represent himself as the orange-faced god Trump.
