The repair costs are part of the estimated $45 million price tag for the upcoming parade.
The cost to repair Washington, D.C., streets after the upcoming military parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary could cost as much as $16 million, according to U.S. military officials.
That’s part of an estimated $45 million total cost for the June 14 military parade, which coincides with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. The cost estimates have fluctuated as planning continues.
The parade itself will include about 130 vehicles, including 28 M1A1 tanks, 28 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, 28 Stryker armored fighting vehicles and a number of vehicles towing artillery launchers. More than 50 helicopters will also participate in an “extensive flyover” in the nation’s capital.
The event will also bring more than 9,000 soldiers from around the country to Washington, about 7,000 of whom will march in the parade itself. The event will also include at least eight Army bands, and some troops will ride on the nearly three dozen horses and two mules expected to march as part of a historical section of the parade.
I never thought I’d see the day when a draft dodging felon was given a military parade for his birthday.
For the record, fuck the draft. If they ever call it up again, I encourage everyone to metaphorically burn their cards en masse, and present a middle finger to the federal government.
But you don’t get to use daddy’s money and connections to be allowed to stay when others have to make an actual choice to make a stand, and you sure as FUCK shouldn’t get to have a military parade after doing so.
If the 9,000 military personnel had any sense of duty to the oath they all took, then they would refuse to go, or honestly even do the funniest thing on planet earth.
Cheeto said it himself, “he who saves his country commits no crime”
Trump isn’t being given anything.
He is ordering the military to do the parade. This isn’t even about the military.
Trump is doing this to show his followers that he owns the libs. That he is powerful. Because, in a twisted sense, he is.
He is forcing DC to put on the parade. He’s forcing the government to pay for it. He’s forcing the residents to deal with the consequences.
This is about power projection.
We are in fascism times.
Make no mistake, there are plenty of people in positions of power, who could all make sure this doesn’t happen.
They aren’t. Mostly because they want it to happen (also to own the libs) , or because they don’t seem to realize we are in fascism times and think “surely there is a good reason for this”
They are giving it to him.
The phrase “Someone needs to do it.” Is trending…
I’d welcome any alien willing to take him in a long space trip to Venus
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But I have work!
Military parades are disgusting period, but especially when they’re just a prop for a billionaire to gain more enthusiasm from his psychotic cultists, at the expense of the poorest American’s tax dollars.
You spelled dictator wrong.