Originally Posted By u/proteaprince At 2025-06-14 07:44:15 PM | Source


  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    More attendance pics: https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-kicks-off-massive-military-parade-national-mall/story?id=122853103

    That’s rather pathetic.

    “I don’t feel like a king. I have to go through hell to get stuff approved. A king would say I’m not gonna get this,” he said. “No, no, we’re not a king, we’re not a king at all.”

    Literally using the royal “we” when saying he’s not a king. That’s something you don’t see every day.

    • ceenote@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Most of the groups of soldiers barely take up a single lane on the street, a fraction of the attendance expected, what looks like single digits of each type of military vehicle, and bootlicking ABC still calls it “massive”

      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        It’s massive in that I don’t know if America has had a military parade since the world wars so anything is a lot. It also somehow tens of millions of taxpayer money as they continue hypocritically spouting about government waste.

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        2 months ago

        Where did we even find enough Shermans to drive? Did they scavenge every small town post WWII park and steal the ones that are on display across the Midwest?

    • Wytch@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Utterly pathetic. And it sounds like he’s lamenting his lack of unilateral authority rather than dismissing its possibility. So, no great save there either.