Donald Trump was unhappy with his sparsely attended military parade over the weekend and blamed it on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, biographer Michael Wolff revealed.
Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a “menacing” show of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday—but got a “festive” parade instead.
“He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
I think he somehow associates their behavior with a lack of discipline. He expected coordinated … 🪿 stepping and unwavering devotion to their CiC who has zero respect for them or something? I can’t wrap my head around whatever circles of logic he tries to use
And this is why he will get the us involved in Iran. He needs something to boost his ego after this amazing by failure.
Half of it is still about oil. Saudi Arabia has mass amounts of oil and fewer people. Iran has more people and a decent (but less) amount of oil. For years Iran has been trying to sell off their oil at cheaper prices in mass to force money into their economy. Some may argue it’s to raise the quality of living for the people, others may argue it’s because they believe the oil will do them no good 100 years from now so selling it all off and raking in what money they can now will only help them. Saudi Arabia has money, just doesn’t distribute it evenly, and their profit margins would be hurt by prices being driven down. Other countries like the U.S. also would struggle to complete in selling oil at lower prices as our lifting costs are higher. So oil companies selling out of the US and around the world benefit greatly from Iran not selling off their oil at lower costs. (It’s less than 1/2 to 1/3 the cost for Iran the lift the oil). So the U.S. stays friends with Saudi Arabia and tries to stop other countries from lowering their prices.
The Republican tradition of killing brown kids to keep rich old men wealthy
I wonder what Kim Jong Un’s reaction was when he saw the photos of Trumps dinky little parade
Haha Dinky.
I’ll tell ya one other thing that’s floppy Don
“we aren’t kings”
Cries when parade isn’t dictator-y enough.
His floppy parade was a disappointment? How scandelous.
Not enough people in the groupchat haha
Is this why he’s bombing Iran? A city will be destroyed and many people killed because his fee fees were hurt. Hey billionaires and/or republicans, look how he treated Musk, Lindell and Giuliani, just saying.
Dictators always blame others for their failings.
But hegseth is a failure too.
Take it easy in the admins token DUI hire
LOL, like it’s entirely on the drunkard from Faux.
Did donvict want everyone doing a stupid pose like his ridiculous mugshot photo? Or the one he did for his “presidential” photo?
as a tangent we really need to take journalists aside and talk to them about the phrases they’re coining to avoid repeating themselves every time they need to describe “talking shit” or “yell at” in an article title.
As always, journalists write articles, and their editors select the title.
I automatically down vote all posts with “slam” and “blast” in the headline. Doesn’t matter what the actual news is
That shit needs to stop
Don’t downvote news on distribution or aggregate sites, contact the publishers directly.
don’t blast slam me for how I vote 😤
So, that doesn’t do anything to the journalist or reporting entity. It just makes news less visible here because you are annoyed at a word choice.
Perhaps you could contact the publisher or writer and let them know you are unhappy instead?
Less visible, less clicks, less revenue
Trump SLAMS Pelosi in the broom closet 3 times a week.
Add “cause and effect” to the list of things he does not grasp. There wasn’t some time lord showing people the parade would be too festive. It’s a decision made by attendees in advance which reflects poorly on his ego so it needs to be blamed on anybody but him.
tbf, if The Doctor shows up at a military parade, I’d be quite alarmed
Just like North Korea. Dear leader has to find someone to blame. Will it be wild dogs, or antiaircraft cannon?
that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.
If he didn’t want soldiers that were excited to be there, then why did he have them screened for political association to make sure they were his supporters?
Do you have a source for this? I saw that he screened the soldiers at his fort bragg speech like this but haven’t seen reports that parade soldiers were screened similarly.
Wait he did that? Wtf
In addition to screening for BMI, yes.
And the best he could find was a bunch of middle-aged guys that looked like they were cosplaying as soldiers who have never gone through so much as aa day of basic training?
