Donald Trump’s Military Birthday Parade Was a Gross Failure

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-military-birthday-parade-dc-failure-1235365040/

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  1. Well, at least there was a clown at the birthday parade.

  3. It was a truly pathetic display. Trump has never looked weaker

  5. No one came, it was overcast, even the troops Trump used as props looked like the didn’t want to be there. There was no uniform or structure in their march.

  6. He did probably set the record of the shittiest birthday in history though, with as many as 11mil people across an entire continent turning out to tell him specifically to go fuck himself.

  7. With all the military presence… trump still had to give his “speech” from behind bulletproof glass.

  8. > An aerial parade of historic military aircraft flew above the National Mall, traversing a course from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Memorial that — despite clear anticipation of crowds by event organizers — was more empty field and food truck line than crowd.

    You’d think the person who received the second most amount of votes in a presidential election would have crowds that could overshadow the food truck line. It’s only been six months. Either he did rig the election or he’s *really* losing support.

  9. Trump has failed upwards his whole life. They’re that delusional they’ll just create a whole unimaginative narrative that blames immigrants or something.

  10. The guy didn’t even order pizza. It’s like he doesn’t know how to plan a birthday party.

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  12. Massive difference in Parade vs Protest crowd size and enthusiasm (places like Pocatello IDAHO making history?) begs the question: Was Nov election count clean?

    I sure hope that manual recount’s ongoing …

  13. “He praised the army — and armies of years past. “Our soldiers never give up, never surrender and never ever quit. They fight, fight, fight and they win, win, win,” Trump said”

    Uhm. Vietnam and a few other little conflicts would like a word please. Somebody needs to give Donald a history book for his birthday.

  14. Even the spinsters at Fox News can’t make it look like a success.

  15. The best and saddest and most embarrassing part was hearing the tanks squeak by as the dead silent crowd just watches

  17. You can measure the insanity of this man by demanding this parade and, most important, him being there. he put himself into this pr mess. This man is seriously sick and actively destroying the United States from within.

    Over the last few days, protestors where attacked by the police, national guard and marines. most important: there was a fatal attack on a democratic politician and her husband. and two others where shot, still not out of the worst.

    people are shot, detained, threatened. This is what this man does. This is what he has to account for while watching his military birthday parade. Which, by the way, is not even his. He just hijacked the celebration of 250 yrs American army. Just as he steals everything else.

    Two people shot to death. That’s what’s important here.

  18. >After two hours, the event reached its logical conclusion: political speeches. J.D. Vance briefly went first. “June 14 is of course the birthday of the Army,” Vance said. “It is, of course, the birthday of the president of the United States. And Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He delivered the laugh line of the night. “It’s also my wedding anniversary,” he said before immediately leaving the stage.

    Good lord this article is a treat to read.

  19. Now, because he’s been genuinely embarrassed by this horrible turnout, he’s going to do something REALLY stupid to deflect attention away from this disaster.

  21. I just a saw a report that said attendance at his sad parade barely broke 5000 people. That’s absolutely incredible if true.

  22. I watched a restream of the “parade” and it wasn’t just a gross failure but GROSS in general.

    Ad placements for dana white’s shitty energy drink. Ad placement for a crypto company. the people marching could barely march in unison, the tanks squeaked. Trump was falling asleep.

    It brings a smile to my face that he experienced how little people actually care about him ON HIS BIRTHDAY and that more people showed up around the world in different states to stand up against him, ice and anyone supporting ice.

  23. I was curious and turned on Fox coverage of the parade. You’d have thought it was the grandest, most wonderful patriotic event of all time. It was going to cause all Americans to become happy and come together in unity again (yes, they actually said that). They went on and on about how the troops were so excited to be there. They gave excuses for the poor attendance (weather). It was a full on Trump love-fest.

  24. Trump has gotta be the worst president in the entire history of the United States of America.

  25. I’ve been in parades when I was in the Army. Watching some of the procession I had to laugh as I could tell a lot of the troops didn’t want to be there. You could see them out of step as they marched in formation. The way several had their caps pushed back on their head, the chewing gum, and some were looking around as they marched. All of these were a form of protest. Kudos to the soldiers for having to endure the farce of a parade.

  26. He even had two obvious dementia moments, so bad that they cut the live feed and went to black.

    The first happened at the end of his speech when he was about to wander away before receiving the flag, and had to be stopped and literally turned around by Melania. The second was when he froze up and just stood there blankly for a long time after receiving the flag, and had to be prompted to leave.

    He never looked more feeble than on the day he tried so hard to project strength.

  27. Trump wanted respect from people. like they do in Russia, north korea or china.

    Donald, it is not repect, it is fear that causes the amazing military parades in dictatorship countries.

    Stop humiliating the US and yourself

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