Summary
Trump is planning a $92 million military parade on June 14, 2025—his 79th birthday, Flag Day, and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.
The four-mile event, from the Pentagon to the White House, revives a long-desired spectacle Trump previously canceled in 2018 over costs.
He has since overhauled military leadership, removing top Pentagon officials and replacing them with loyalists likely to support the parade.
D.C. officials, facing pressure from Trump’s federal overreach, have shown little resistance. Critics call it a vanity project amid broader concerns about authoritarian tendencies.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
I guess he’s lucky eggs aren’t affordable. Otherwise people might stock up on them for this occasion.
Oh man, if we could fuck up his birthday party I would be so happy.
30 people along the route of the parade cracking tear gas grenades at the same time would be lovey to see.
This is clearly not worse than J6 and those people are heroes now.
Yes, but I don’t want to see what the SS will do to people deploying “weapons” near enough to the president.
I should stop paying taxes
They can’t arrest all of us.
I’m working on having all my jobs convert me to 1099 (some have) and then I’m just going to see how long I can go without paying.
Probably not as long as I’d like, but whatever.
I’m kind of in the same boat. At this point I want to set the federal tax money aside in a high yield savings and then just not pay taxes. I mean, what’s the fine\penalty rate that they charge? If it’s nominal then you may actually make money in the long run by withholding taxes, then negotiating lower rates later
I’m not financial expert but when the stock market is crashing, the high yield savings decrease their value over time
Also, in my country, if you withhold taxes you need to pay a fine, the interest rate and the full owed amount, unless you had a professional accountant expert in tax elusion.
Those discounted rates are reserved for who stole millions, not for regular people
I owe taxes from the past and got on a payment plan. I will be paying it for the next 5ish years.
Yes, there’s insignificant interest related to it (it’s sub 2%). But ultimately I am slow rolling what I owe and they’re getting devalued money later.
Sometimes I just don’t pay and they don’t seem to notice for months and then they send me a notice about it, so I call and make up a story and they forgive the fees.
Look, I am not opposed to taxes. I’m not opposed to the greater good. I donate plenty to local charities and causes. But this administration can fuck right off.
Who does he think will attend this parade?
Seems like a great opportunity for an actual televised protest. Line the parade route with opposition
I’d rather paint the road stripe off a nearby cliff. Are there cliffs there?
So, 3 months in office and we’re already going to waste over $120m for this fucking cunt to play golf on the job and stroke his ego with a military parade? At least they could fire 2,400 people in an unimportant place like the CDC to offset the costs for things that truly make America great. /s
So if all of the military is focusing their effort on this stupid expensive bullshit, what’s the most disruptive thing a group of well organized people could do?
Organize a crowd to stand in front of the tanks.
Paint the route in pride colours the night before
even better, paint a line off the road and to a cliff ala Wile Coyote and see if he’s dumb enough to follow it.
Bomb pearl harbor? No one would expect it
Putin will be riding in the lead tank with trump.
Doubt the leader of the US would share the spot with trump…
Had me in the first half
Sounds like a great opportunity for a massive protest.
The secret service has got to be losing their fucking minds over this. There is literally no way such an event would end well and it’s just not practical to secure such a thing.
Wouldn’t it be hysterical if Trump’s ego was what ended all this?
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I wonder if the military are practicing the goose step
Definitely going. It’s gonna be the hugest, best parade ever, like no one’s ever seen. Spectacular.
Don’t really have a problem with a $92,000,000 parade so much as I have a problem with the 1,000,000,000,000 military budget.
Edit: It appears I have offended the libs by trying to bring it back to a larger systemic issue rather than freaking out over aesthetics. My apologies.
You know only tinpot dictators have military parades for themselves, right? Normal leaders don’t do that. Normal democracies don’t do that.
Oh, I just noticed your instance. Carry on, comrade.
Are we acting like this is the first time the US has had a military parade in history for some reason? Pretty much every country has military parades. If “only tinpot dictators have military parades,” then name a country that isn’t a tinpot dictatorship.
Yeah I’m not getting into a discussion with you. I clearly said "for themselves*.
Have a good day.
Sounds like a very important distinction to you, for some reason.
It is a very important distinction. I can’t even imagine the prime minister of my home country insisting on a military parade for his birthday. He’d be laughed out of parliament, because it’s fucking ridiculous.
Having a parade as part of some event, for an anniversary or something, that’s one thing. But this is Trump wanting one for his own personal glory. That’s actually something only dictators do. Kim Jong Un loves parades. Hitler loved parades. Mussolini loved parades.
I guess maybe it’s not so weird that Trump wants one too, considering who he wants to emulate.
It is a very important distinction. I can’t even imagine the prime minister of my home country insisting on a military parade for his birthday.
It’s not even a real distinction because it’s also the Army’s 250th anniversary.
Even if that wasn’t the case, it’s a totally meaningless and purely aesthetic distinction. “Oh this kinda has the vibe of something bad people do,” that’s the only real objection to it that any of you have.
The legitimate reason to care is because it’s glamourizing the US military, which is an incredibly evil institution. Even so, of the things the military does, a parade is one of the most innocent and innoculous. But between glamorizing a shitty president or a shitty institution, why should anyone give a shit?
Insane that there’s people in this thread being like, “I should stop paying taxes.” Really, this is where you draw the line? Hundreds of thousands of civilians murdered in illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, but Bush never had a parade to celebrate himself so I guess it’s fine! I’ll never understand liberals’ priorities.
Yeah, you know, I’m not actually American and I don’t pay homage to any army. And I hope you didn’t truly conclude from my post that this parade bullshit is the only thing I dislike about Trump, or that due to a lack thereof somehow I approved of Bush? Come on, even you know that’s just a poor straw man.
That said, I don’t disagree at all with the other stuff you’re saying, you are absolutely right. I’m just telling you that no normal (and by normal, I don’t necessarily mean good!) leader (i.e. one who is not a megalomaniac, a narcissist or a (wannabe) dictator) would demand a military parade for their birthday. Honestly not. And even if you don’t care because it’s “symbolic,” you should still care because it shows you the type of person he is. The fact that it’s “also the army’s 250th birthday” is irrelevant, because it’s irrelevant to Trump. HE wants a birthday parade for HIS birthday. He thinks he deserves it. He thinks his birthday is worth a 100 million dollars and he doesn’t give a fuck that the tax payers are footing the bill.
Trump sees himself as the institution. That’s the whole point. The U.S., that’s him. The government, it’s him. L’État, c’est moi.
Now if it were me I’d abolish military parades completely, because imo it’s just a waste of money. But the fact that Trump wants one for himself is just another page out of his Dictator handbook.
4 mile stretch. I hope they run out of people the first mile and they have to run to get in front of the parade to make it look like it’s full. I hope an eagle shits right on his head too.
