President Donald Trump has asked for a military parade and the Pentagon is reviewing potential dates, Pentagon spokesman Charlie Summers said Tuesday.
The spokesman described the planning process as being in its “infancy.”
In response to the news, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that Trump had asked the Defense Department to “explore” the idea.
“President Trump is incredibly supportive of America’s great servicemembers who risk their lives every day to keep our country safe. He has asked the Department of Defense to explore a celebration at which all Americans can show their appreciation,” Sanders said.
The Washington Post first reported Trump told top Pentagon brass last month he wants a military parade.
“The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” a military official told the paper. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.”
Trump’s meeting with senior military leaders last month included Vice President Mike Pence, White House chief of staff John Kelly, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford.
Trump was French President Emmanuel Macron’s guest on Bastille Day last year, and later called the French military parade he witnessed “one of the greatest parades” he had ever seen.
He said last September in a conversation with Macron that when he came back from France he wanted a military parade on the Fourth of July in Washington.
Trump’s call for a military parade might be hitting a few snags. The Post said shipping tanks and military hardware into Washington could cost millions of dollars, and that military officials said they were unsure how to pay for it.
After the Gulf War in 1991, the US put on a victory celebration replete with servicemembers and military gear.
Outside of France, authoritarian nations the world over have made massive displays of military power a mainstay of their public celebrations.
The news of Trump’s call for a military parade in the US comes as North Korea plans to show off dozens of long-range missiles during a February 8 parade, sources with deep knowledge of North Korea’s intentions told CNN last week.
The parade is expected to include dozens of intercontinental-range Hwasong-15 missiles, which the North Koreans test-fired for the first time in late November, the sources said.
The display of “hundreds” of missiles and rockets would be an attempt “to scare the hell out of the Americans,” one of the sources said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/politics/military-parade-trump/index.html
The display of “hundreds” of missiles and rockets would be an attempt “to scare the hell out of the Americans,” one of the sources said.
My God! This is the purpose of the expensive parade?
I for one am not afraid!
That source was referring to the North Korean parade. Trump’s parade would have little purpose other than to stroke his own ego.
….and yet he laughs at Korea’s Un?!??
Oh, the irony.
Mandatory coverage on every channel
Let me take a wild guess here.
The parade is going to be in North Korea.
I love a parade.
Yeah let’s have a parade while American nationals are struggling to survive homelessness….while American nationals are being murdered at the hands of Trump’s police state…. while American nationals are deprived of due process, denied their rights and their Common law courts….while American nationals are being experimented on and poisoned by gmo ‘foods’ , chemtrails, vaccines…..while American nationals are being robbed of their resources….yeah let’s have a parade …..just don’t be surprised if you see the military goose stepping as they march down Pennsylvania avenue
Operation Orchard…. September 6 2007. This Korea Iran Syria Israel nuclear situation was a problem exacerbated by Bill Clinton who made it worse in the 90’s. For a country as broke as ours $21 Trillion in debt it seems worse than a foolish waste of money but a treasonous waste of this county’s time money and resources to put a parade together….unless private U.S. military armament corporations pay for it instead of giving workers bonuses and raises.
this country is not broke…… CAFR
An occupying presence always requires a show of force to bolster their failing egos and consolidate power and control over the People. Those dumb enough to go along with this mockery are already slaves–their chains forged long ago through apathy, indifference and pleasure seeking.
I fear we, as a People are too far gone now. Maybe they’ll have some nukes in the parade and it will somehow self-detonate…
‘I fear we, as a People are too far gone now.’
A rather odd statement given your nick
*** Outside of France, authoritarian nations the world over have made massive displays of military power a mainstay of their public celebrations. ***
That’s right, so why should this authoritarian “homeland” be any different?
I can hear Trump’s thinking: “Hitler and Stalin had military parades! Even Kim Jong-un has them! How come I don’t get one? I wanna military parade tooooo!!
Reminds me of the children of Israel crying out for a king like the other nations had in spite of God telling them what would happen. I Sam. 11-17
“And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.”
Oh joy. Now the SOB can stand in front of his White House balconey with his advisors and wave at all of his fellow comrades and citizens like Lil Kim does whenever he has a military parade in North Korea. Maybe we should give Donnie a Lil Kim haircut while we’re at it.
What a joke.