Twin celebrations of the Army’s 250th anniversary and the president’s birthday will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington.
Twin celebrations of Donald Trump’s birthday and the Army’s 250th anniversary will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington in a celebration that will cost $25 million to $45 million, U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
U.S. military service branches take pride in their history and anniversary celebrations, called birthdays, across the United States and on bases around the world.
The U.S. Army had long been planning to move troops and equipment to the National Mall in Washington on June 14 as part of its anniversary celebration. Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.
Two U.S. officials told Reuters, on condition of anonymity, the eventual cost could be as high as $45 million. One of them said the cost included several million dollars more than it would have without a parade.
America is a failed state, your poor die because they can’t afford hospitals, your rich steal everything they want, and use your armed forces as their toys.
You are a disgrace, shame on all of you for not introducing this man and his friends to Madame Guillotine.
The world see you as weak and it will take a generation to repair the dammage you have done to your reputation.
Fught for fucks sake are you just waiting for him to die so u can get a new dictator?
GUYS I FOUND THE WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING
This is why we can’t have 30 dolls
Some new Luigi needs to pull off a Tiananmen Square: Washington Drift
as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington
I hope they shred Pennsylvania Ave. to smithereens… 🤡 🖕
I don’t think they will do much if they go in a straight line. If they start doing donuts then it would probably wreck some shit.
Historically speaking, USSR / Russia, China, and NK have loved to talk up the capabilities of their kit, and these parades were a big part of that. They have frequently failed to deliver on all of their promised capabilities.
In the United States we have done the opposite. We don’t talk about our latest gen aircraft programs; we hide them out in the desert. When we do talk we remain cagey about what we have for years and decades, until long after we’ve started selling it to allies.
I understand that this parade will not show off our real capabilities (not at 25 tanks anyway), but I am saddened that the man feels like he needs to stoop to the level of the adversaries we’ve held for so long.
He’s mad that Putin and el-Sisi both got cool military parades. I remember him wanting to do this in his first term.
The little girl only needs 3 pencils. The little boy needs multi-million dollar attention.
So another republican did a milatary parade, interesting.
As much as I want to bash trump, understand that this parade would have happened regardless of who is president and when their birthday is.
As much as I want to bash trump, understand that this parade would have happened regardless of who is president and when their birthday is.
Others have already pointed out you’re wrong, but I was just curious how wrong. So I went looking. Any searches within the last year are polluted with results talking about this trump parade, so I set the search first to prior to 2024 which revealed something I had entirely forgotten. tRUMP TRIED THIS CRAP BEFORE in 2018 AND WAS SHOT DOWN ON COSTS:
So setting the search criteria PRIOR to even the first trump presidency in 2015 gives us this:
So it is by no means common to have military equipment rolling down Pennsylvania avenue and even that much smaller one cost $12m in 1991 dollars ($28,305,381.17 in 2025 dollars).
I see. I was mistaken. Very mistaken. I thought that there was going to be a parade or event anyways because it was a 250 year thing.
Please tell me you don’t live in the US.
Alright. I don’t live in the US.
Thanks for the analysis! Looks like the 250th anniversary will be the party line for MAGAts and such. I was sure the anniversary was just an excuse but this is even more black and white.
Makes you feel like you’re taking crazy pills watching everyone accept insanity. Grab a Republican from twenty years ago and tell them the president is holding a military parade and they’d want to impeach him.
Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.
According to the article, the parade part is specifically for Trump
I think the scale here is more what’s up for debate.
It’s very likely Army would have done something to commemorate the anniversary.
But a parade with 45 tanks? Probably not, the last time the Army did a parade was in 91.
There wasn’t even one was for the 200th anniversary.
Fair enough, my mistake
Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday
