Kim Jong-Bigly demands to be celebrated with a large military parade. Cadet Bone Spurs received five military service deferments in the Vietnam War era, but he still thinks he’s in charge of the military junta that runs the current banana republic called America. He takes pleasure in the kinds of things that a 4-year-old likes: giant trucks that go vroom-vroom, bigly tanks and sparkling medals, and schoolyard insults. So Cadet Bone Spurs has DEMANDED to be glorified by the United States military with a bigly parade in his honor.
President Trump’s vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand military parade later this year showcasing the might of America’s armed forces. Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagon’s tank — a room reserved for top-secret discussions — marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the planning.
Surrounded by the military’s highest-ranking officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Trump’s seemingly abstract desire for a parade was suddenly heard as a presidential directive, the officials said.
“The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” said a military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the planning discussions are supposed to remain confidential. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.”
American shows of military strength don’t come cheap. The cost of shipping Abrams tanks and high-tech hardware to Washington could run in the millions, and military officials said it was unclear how they would pay for it.
A White House official familiar with the planning described the discussions as “brainstorming” and said nothing is settled. “Right now, there’s really no meat on the bones,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions. Still, the official said Trump is determined to have a parade. “The president wants to do something that highlights the service and sacrifice of the military and have a unifying moment for the country,” the official said.
The inspiration for Trump’s push is last year’s Bastille Day celebration in Paris, which the president attended as a guest of French President Emmanuel Macron. Trump was awestruck by the tableau of uniformed French troops marching down Avenue des Champs-Elysees with military tanks, armored vehicles, gun trucks and carriers — complete with fighter jets flying over the Arc de Triomphe and painting the sky with streaks of blue, white and red smoke for the colors of the French flag. Aboard Air Force One en route home from Paris last July, aides said Trump told them he was dazzled by the French display and said he wanted one at home.
To be clear, Cadet Bone Spurs doesn’t want a bigly parade because he thinks it will help unify the country, or because he wants to honor the sacrifices of veterans and servicemen. He wants a bigly military parade because he thinks it will make HIM feel bigly. Because then he’ll get to brag about all of HIS tanks and HIS servicemen and how they’re all there for HIM, because they support HIM. He sees himself as Generalissimo Bigly, despot-general of the Russian Confederated States of America.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Oh the irony – Bastille Day is celebrated to remember the day the People threw out the French Monarch.
I am all for an American Bastille Day where the good American people takes to the street alongside the military to throw out Trump and his cronies.
This will be the mother of all parades..
Will he require them to goose step, too?? Will he get to wear a Bigly uniform with medals bought from the dollar store??? God help us, no really, God, you need to help us!
I can’t wait to see him doing the goose step with his bone spurs. Probably look more like the Funky Chicken.
He’s going to be so disappointed to see how many people of color there really are in the military. Maybe the “troops” will all be played by shiny white lieutenants and captains only.
I want the person who arranges the music to have an excellent sense of humour. And to freaking hate Donald Trump.
I once went to a children’s church nativity service where the organist played one long riff of The Fairytale of New York while everyone was arriving and taking a pew. The musician in question dislikes children, so he amused himself accordingly. It made my husband’s and my Christmas really special.
Like that, only more offensive, please.
He’s getting worse….I really think he has some mental illness, for real!
My husband looked at the tv while don the Con was saying something stupid and said, “this MF is 😜 crazy” and walked away. This it’s what it comes to and he still has a following. What is it going to take for some people to realize this country is being ran by a Bigly crazy man.
Pretty much confirming that his penis is tiny and doesn’t work so he has to compensate with parades of big guns.
We don’t have money in our budget for Medicaid but we can waste millions on parades of weapons and on sending Princess Nagini and her entourage on vacations to the Olympics.
Yea same issue that plagues the bigly leader of NK.
His fat ass will block everyone’s view anyway.
Oh, and I will use Cadet Bone Spurs until the day he wears that orange jumpsuit. 😂🤣😂
Afterward, I’ll just call him by his prisoner i.d. #
Goals, I have ’em
And noble goals they are!
I wonder if they can continue planning for a parade if there’s a shutdown tomorrow.🤔
A unifying moment for the country… Hopefully, yes, everyone will finally agree that he’s a power drunk maniac who needs to be done away with posthaste. Not likely, but maybe…
A big dick swinging parade for President Anus and all of his tiny penised followers who probably also never actually served in the military or who who actively seen service. But yeah, us snowflakes shouldn’t be so triggered by this or how the talk of not supporting him should now be considered treason. Nothing dictator-y about this at all. Nope.
Too bad this jackass doesn’t know how to read or understand the actual history of Bastille Day.
I’m an Army Officer and even I find this shit downright embarrasing. I reeeaaaally hope brass comes to their senses and shuts this idea down. We have more important things to spend our money on than an attaboy parade so that 45 can feel superior to Kim Jong Un.
Can we take a moment to appreciate this elegant shade: “a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagon’s tank — a room reserved for top-secret discussions — marked a tipping point…”
A room reserved for conversation of actual national security importance…being used by Cheetolini to plan his big boy parade.
And obviously not really top-secret….
I thought that L’Enfant’s DC design is untenable for military parades. Did’t we go through this for the inauguration?
Yes, I recall something about the streets not being able to withstand the weight of the tanks and other equipment. So on top of the millions to put on this farcical salute to Diaper Donnie, it will potentially cost millions more to repair the damage.
YES! My dad (who is a history nerd to top all history nerds) said that if the weight of that much military vehicular traffic goes through DC, not only will it cause millions of dollars of damage to the roads, sidewalks, and inevitably the DC Metro system (big ups to building our capital on a swamp), so many of the streets won’t be wide enough to host that kind of traffic.
Russia does these things in Red Square for a reason, folks.
Yes, Cadet Bone Spurs wanted such a military parade for his inauguration, and the military said the streets would be too damaged by it. Hadn’t thought about the metro. Maybe they are just humoring him, hoping that Mueller will force him out of office by next November (Veterans Day), which is the date the military was trying to steer President Tweeter toward.
What a maroon.
I think it is better to honour the military by taken care of the Vets. As long as there is no money for their physical and mental health care, I find this an abomination.
If it really should happen (and let’s face it, weirder things have already during this administration), then people have to take to the streets.
Nahh…all the better to roll by the depressingly large number of homeless vets in DC as they push their shopping carts and look for the nearest quiet bench to rest their weary feet. This idea is despicable.
holy sh*t…I would LOVE it if some veterans’ group organized this. call together all of the homeless vets around DC (or the entire area) to protest.
several veterans’ groups have already denounced this. I think it was VoteVets who said “this isn’t about him saluting the military…it’s about him having the military salute HIM.”
Seconded.
He is a disaster.
Excellent picture choice Kaiser, in that top photo he looks like a toddler that is annoyed at having to share and wait his turn. Which is exactly who is he at his core.
They are going to present this as “honoring the troops” so if you are critical of it, you are against the troops. Just like taking a knee to protest police brutality became “dishonoring the flag” and dishonoring the military. Or not clapping for him is treasonous.
yes, I see that on Twitter. But they do not have a come back when you argue the costs, especially considering the problems the Veterans are facing.
I’m a veteran and it’s a waste of time, resources and Washington DC can’t handle the traffic. I’m a Gulf War vet and when that war was over there was a parade. I was there and you couldn’t move on the Mall in DC. That was in 1991. I grew up in the area and sometimes it takes 45 minutes to go 8 miles! It would be a nightmare in 2018.
Please let some Trumpster call me unAmerican. I always ask them, “So when did YOU serve?” That shuts them up.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service. I wish you all the best in life–you and your fellow veterans’ sacrifices have ensured that all of us have an opportunity to lead our best lives.
H
Thank you for your service.
First off thank you for serving. Besides all the stastical nightmares of a military parade in DC,the fact that BLOTUS never served but deferred should be why he doesn’t deserve one. At least HW Bush served in the armed forces. I just think it’s a waste of tax dollars. I would rather see it go to the people that gave instead of one person that just takes and takes.
As a fellow vet, I agree, and would also point out that it’s a jerk move to take up so much of people’s free time to plan, practice, and execute this crap. It’s like how VIPs and generals always think they’re doing some magnanimous act in visiting the troops in war zones, when it’s really just a ton of extra work for everyone to support someone else’s photo op. The USO is different, of course.
Keeping in mind that the troops won’t have a choice in this, whether they support him or not. They do not have the power to stand up to him like the intelligence agencies do. And he will say “look how much MY military adores ME!” And anybody that protests this or speaks against it will be called unpatriotic and/or traitors. Remember after 9/11 and the illegal war started, anybody that opposed Bush was called unpatriotic and un-American. These same people then turned around and called Obama every name in the book. These same people will be calling for protesters to be shot or deported.
This probably gonna be the worst thing he’s done so far. What president has a parade in his own honor?
Presidents don’t.
Dictators and despots do.
Bingo.
EXACTLY, I never dreamed that the United States of America would follow Russia, North Korea,etc Never, ever.
I am so embarrassed he is our POTUS. This is bizarre, simply bizarre, but so indicative of who he is. He is enamored with dictators, and he loves the idea of showing ours is bigger than theirs, showing battlefield vehicles, heavy military equipment in parade, instead of showing we are about peace and unity. Well, with him, we aren’t.
Can you imagine on the day of his inauguration how obsessed he was with wanting tanks going down the road? What a message coming into office as a new POTUS. I was dumbstruck back then. How are we here with this idiot? Such a shallow and stupid megalomaniac is what we are suck with and stuck with the idiots that love him.
Just … a random parade? What?
So is the federal government going to pay for the extensive repairs to the streets after Cadet Bone Spurs’s bigly parade? Or will D.C. be left to pay for it by itself, just as Puerto Rico has been left dangling?
What a maroon.
Apparently the last time this happened, in 1991, they had to re-pave Constitution Avenue because the tanks sank down into it a couple of inches.
And there are no tanks in DC. They would have to transport them (Bigly bucks) for the “Cadet BS” Parade.
And all the other vehicles to haul the missiles. And the missiles. Because this is all about the big, powerful, phallus-shaped missiles.
I was at that parade in DC in 1991. It was a nightmare, traffic, crowds and us vets hated it. The heat in June? I’d rather have a COLA increase in my military pension then pay for this BS.
Was reading the comments on the related Politico article last night and one Trumpster was defending it using the defense that other presidents had had military parades. The commenters were pointing out to him that those were parades after a war victory (WWII, Desert Storm, Civil War, etc). When they asked the Trumpster what war had been won to celebrate with a military parade, he stated the defeat of ISIS. At which the others pointed out that we had not defeated ISIS. The Trumpsters will believe anything. And yes, the money spent should go towards helping our soldiers and Veterans.
Well, the war on immigrants. He can probably claim that.
As Maddow discussed last night, there are discrepancies on how Emperor Zero is paying into the Trump/Russia legal defense fund trust.
The inauguration raised $107 mil for a VERY small party. Where’s the leftover dough?
Maybe Dotard wants to charge taxpayers for a “Ive got a microscopic Dick!” Parade but use the cash to pay for witnesses in the investigation. This is a conflict to boot.
Anyway, let’s make
#MicroDickParade
Trend
Eric, I saw that segment as well. They have been foot-dragging for months on explaining where that money went. There had been speculation last fall that the monies might be redirected for Cadet BS and Company’s legal expenses.
If Dotard is insistent on a Bastille Day-type parade, then Paul Ryan must dress as Marie Antionette ($1.50 per week raise) and guillotines should be brought as well. You know….
For symbolism
Oh, the visuals! Paul could shout out, “Let them eat cake with their $1.50 ‘raises’!”
Cadet BS should wear a period-accurate wig and outfit. It would be an improvement. He might want to keep the powdered wig to cut down on his combover time and hairspray costs.
Does Costco sell wigs and costumes? I know they sell cake. “Let them eat cake from Costco now that their $1.50 a week raise makes it able for them to afford membership! “
@Christin 🙂
@Beth, Costco sells costumes at Halloween time.
Eric Ativan As I’m related very distantly to Marie-Antionette, I object to Paul Ryan impersonating my odious ancestor. I believe Cher nailed it:
https://twitter.com/cher/status/915462440028012545
The moniker Cadet Bone Spurs seems to really be taking off. Wouldn’t it be delightful if this is what brings him down? A snark by a Senator who is a real military combat veteran in a wheel chair? And a woman? Even better – a pregnant woman!
Who is our designated survivor? I’m just sayin’……
Orrin Hatch. The guy who helped spearhead the $1.5 Trillion dollar tax giveaway-to-the-rich then said that there wasn’t any money left in the pot for CHIP.
Well shit.
Instead of criticising our NHS, why doesn’t he spend his damn energy finding a decent civilised healthcare solution for his country?
As for the parade, that is pure dictator chic. I am increasingly worried about America. Please do the right thing in the mid-terms and end this nightmare!
Regarding midterms — I think Cadet BS’ party will appear to start turning on him shortly (talking/tweeting points only, no real action). It will make voters think they haven’t been in lockstep with him. Remember “adult day care” and other jabs of a few months ago that disappeared as they passed their agenda?
They’ll do this to try to hang on to their majority and then revert back to “hear no evil, see no evil”.
While it is not a national seat, Missouri voted in a Democrat to the State Congress yesterday in a county that was totally for Trump. It was an unexpected win. So hopefully the blue tide will continue.
I really hope so. The “tax cut” is a ruse to gut services that impact most every citizen. The mid-terms are critical.
He probably burns with envy when he sees the military marching, songs being sang, and flags and banners with Kim Jong Uns face being flown in worship of North Koreas dictator.
His tweet will be “my parades better and bigger than yours, Kim Jong Un! Look at all of the shiny tanks and the biggest crowd in history that came to see me”
The second I heard Trump would be a guest for the parade on 14 July in Paris, I thought “Mother of God, he’s going to want that in D.C.”
Thank goodness he stopped himself from saying he wanted a show-of-force parade like the one in Russia, North Korea, or China… for now.
Jee-sus… He is such a nightmare. I’ve been afraid he’d try something like this, considering how enamoured he is of dictator states. He’s a toddler who constantly needs to be told what a big boy he is.
Oh this is all about him. Trump will do anything to manipulate the narrative. He will claim to say it is about the American people wanting to show how they love and support the military, but ultimately it’s about a big crowd for him. Waste of tax money and our military has better things to do with their time. He should try to make Mexico pay for it.
drump has fond memories of his stint in the New York Military Academy, sent there because he was a blooming psychopath. He bullied administrators to give him a position of power over the other boys and apparently was so overbearing and abusive that he was removed to another role without any power. But little deluded baby fists still saw the demotion as glorious and important.
The parade is another stunt (part of his psychopathic schtick) to make others fear him.
I don’t think Mueller will be impressed.
I find the story about Hope Hicks new boyfriend, Orangina secretary, disgusting. Secretary cannot get a security clearance like Kushner because of beating up his wife. Is there anything about these folks that is minimally acceptable?
No, only truly disgusting folks work for drump.
Hicks, for all her wardrobe and heavy makeup flourishes, is a very rough person. She learned the PR trade from Harvey Weinstein’s PR manager Matthew Hiltzick.
The fact that she subjects herself hourly to baby fists’s creepy demands of loyalty and ego pampering says everything about her.
No, every single one is grossly incompetent, ignorant, racist, corrupt to the core and in on the heist being perpetrated by this “presidency”. All roads lead to corruption. Every single one—whether it’s that Patton woman in New Jersey, Ben carsons son, the sketchy contracts awarded post hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico—oh and let’s not forget our current secretary of education is related to the founder of black water so we all know where those “security” contracts for the next wag the dog war conflict bigly will distract us with. Seriously, this site helps me laugh when most days I just want to put my head in my hands and cry at what they are doing to us. Don’t even get me started on Javanka!!!!😡
If EZ really cared about our military he’d spend that money on our veterans, gold star families and currently serving members of our armed forces. How his base can support a parade is beyond my comprehension. Mueller save us now and we promise to support a parade in honor of matching orange jumpsuits for Trump and his regime.
OT Hush, But as you point out, he doesn’t care about the military troops. Everyone and everything must submit to his ego and demands. He may try to couch it in patriotic terms but it’s all about him.
Now that the FBI and CIA have shown they won’t abide his bullying, he’s going after the military.
Hi Indiana Jones,
Yes, you are absolutely correct about his complete narcicism. Unfortunately, the military has to obey the CIC’s orders. For BLOTUS it’s the perfect storm and we are all aboard the Andrea Gale. Grab your survivor suits guys!!!
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries replies Monday to DT’s ridiculous “You don’t clap for me-you are treasonous” comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TTrX_RZ2Y
Rep.Tammy Duckworth replies too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvoBixN8PeE
These two rebuke DT eloquently and passionately.
Non native speaker, apologies for misspelling
The people speaking out are so courageous. I loved both responses from Jeffries and Duckworth.
Also I must give Senator McCain huge credit for releasing a statement about baby fist’s and Nunes memo and how it does Putin’s work. McCain most likely is in the last stages of brain cancer, but stood up to drump. No matter what I think of some of his policies, I still respect him.
Rep.Jeff Flake’s reply is on point too. He still voted for the tax cut though…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HH4c2SQJEo
The current administration has me feeling like WW3 is just a few tweets away, so the idea of a convoy of military tanks lumbering through the nation’s capitol makes me extra uncomfortable. Can we skip that part?
DOTUS = spitting image of a shameless dictator with no b**ls from a b* republic.
this is not funny. this is tragic but damn if your writing doesn’t make me giggle…Generalissimo Bigly….i die.
Well, that’s not terrifyingly petty and dictate-like at all. Nope, everything is fine here!
Fully expect him to wear somekind of a military uniform the day of the parade
I want them to look me in the eyes and tell me how much this is going to cost and then tell me why there’s not enough money for healthcare and social services, but all these psychopaths would probably do it without even blinking.
Trump’s fake love of the military makes me ill. There’s a t-shirt out that says HURRY UP, MUELLER. My sentiments exactly!!!!
I’ve come to see that only Trump could get away with all the grotesque things that he says and does because he is completely and utterly without shame. It’s a missing chip inside his brain.
It is time for a military coup d’eta.
That is what they do to despots.
That reminded me of an old joke here in Latin America.
– Do you know why there hasn’t been a military coup in United States?
– Because there isn’t a US embassy in Washington.
LMFAO Oh my god, that is excellent.
We need a “Seven Days In May”. Only, the generals would be the GOOD guys this time.
Now that I think about it, effectively teaching the current officers how to move on Washington with tanks may not be the WORST idea… *Steeples fingers*
I really hope you are joking…
Do you want to finish your democracy? Another civil war?
Desiring a military coup to your country is the last thing I could wish in my worst enemy. You should ask Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia what is/ was to live with military minded / educational background leaders.
# ” when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers”
🙂
Kaiser doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to the Big Orange Dummy. Keep up the terrific work, K!
btw our military parade has puppies https://twitter.com/9GAGGifs/status/910486361643405312
As an older person..remembering my parents who were in WW2..the build up of Nazi Germany started with parades..Germany First …equals America First…type rallies and making some citizens ‘Others’…stoking the bitterness from WW1…
Those who do not learn from history are likely to repeat it….
The Republican Party have a choice to make here…this is a slippery slope and Fox News and that slug on it is like Goebbels….
I hope that those of you who know some supporters of this man can help to ease this hard core support into the light of knowledge ..it is difficult and painful and requires patience ..
I truly hope that this can happen otherwise I think it is a dangerous path he is taking you all and the world possibly…
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of, all those Nazi rallies. Scary times right now.
It is Indeed!
Another distraction, and a way to free up cash he can siphon off. Just say NO.
Where are the Russian sanctions???
Exxon paid a huge fine for ignoring sanctions against Russia while our secretary of state, Tillerson was the Exxon CEO. The administration’s ties to Russia go deep.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/20/treasury-fines-exxonmobil-2-million-for-violating-russia-sanctions-while-secretary-of-state-tillerson-was-ceo.html
Exxon also boasted the highest profit ever back in 2008, while the economy tanked, and everyone started to eat shit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/business/01cnd-exxon.html
Let Canada pay for the parade costs. Mexico has The Wall.
Jeezus.
Best tweet I saw: “Our 71-year-old President with an approval rating well below 50% is throwing a parade for himself, but please tell me more about how millennials all want “participation trophies.” (OhNoSheTwitnt)
That is a great tweet!
You know, this motherf***er is so disturbing, he is now rendering me mute. Just don’t know what to say….
If he wanted to honor them he would have paid them a little more instead of wasting all that money on a parade.
Pathetic.
If he really wants a parade, let’s all
parade him down to prison.
Did anyone else see the video of the giant bald spot on his head from when he was boarding AFO a few days ago? I saw it briefly on TV, but now DM has the entire footage posted on their home page. He has no hair on 2/3 of the entire back of his head.
No wonder Daughter Dearest supposedly told friends that his combover is a big endeavor. He’s covering far more than the usual “bologna” spot at the crown.
Yes, lol
It should come as no surprise our tax dollars will be wasted so the orange ogre can convince himself he has a big dick.