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.
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 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.
Tin pot.
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).
Trump’s Triumph Parade
He will be wearing orange-face to represent himself as the orange-faced god Trump.
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Tomatoes, rotten eggs, wilted lettuce…
Fast velocity metal peanuts.
Oh no need to be violent. circus peanuts are bad enough and just as lethal.
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.
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!
Just think of all the benefits like and
No escape intro?
Wow holy based, but I’m pretty sure they take precautions to keep a tank crew from going rogue and saving democracy
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.
Can someone just give him some peanuts and skip the parade?
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!
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.
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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.
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?
Or not gutting the VA.
Trump proceeds to take “that money and cutting every active and reservist soldier”
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People forget the standard advice: Don’t lock up your legs, bend your knees just enough to have a little movement without it being noticeable at a distance. Gotta find the sweet spot of hydrated without overshooting into the “have to pee every 10 minutes” range too.
Seriously… I can only imagine they’ll have to hurry up and wait extremely early and be out there for hours. If it were me, I’d be PISSED
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What I’m hearing is that nothing would piss off these military personnel more than if a whole lot of citizens decided to show up and slow this parade to a standatill.
For the strongest military in the world, it’s degrading. This is pure government waste. Only a malignant narcissist could find value in this.
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.
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 agree on the whole anthem/pledge thing, but flyovers do have at least some value in that they give pilots flight hours. Those planes would have to be in the air anyway for training, so they might as well use them for advertising via flyovers.
Or…
And this is a crazy thought…
They could do the training?
Like, you said you agree the anthem at sporting events is dumb, so when exactly will the flyovers happen?
Have you never been to an airshow?
You think that’s adequate training for active fighter pilots?
That would explain the downvotes, it’s not like flying commercial where you just need hours in the sky, it involves specific maneuvers and simulated dogfighting at highspeed.
It’s like saying NBA players should practice by playing Cornhole, it makes sense if you don’t understand either activity and think throwing something thru a hole is close enough…
Yes, hours are hours and fighter pilots and all the support staff involved need them too. When I was in the military the helicopter pilots would fly down to Florida and get lunch. They needed the hours and were going to by flying anyways.
It’s not just the pilot. The take off crew, the landing, the comms, it’s still a mission.
I mean shit, based on the kind of training equipment Ive seen, the pilots being in the air is just a tiny part of the effort. Especially for naval aircraft. I would assume the same for air force, but they don’t typically land on boats.
But what’s also true is the fighter pilot flyovers,
Not positive on this one, but I think pilots need to regularly fly a certain number of hours in different types of aircraft to maintain their pilot rating or improve it. If they have to fly anyway, at least this way taxpayers get to see what they’re paying for instead of the same flight hours occurring over some desert or mountain range far away from people.
They do.
However the flyovers and other military displays during sporting events were originally done as a recruitment tool.
An advertisement for the military.
It has nothing to do with deliberately planning flight hours for pilots, the hours are a secondary benefit.
Correct
