A $46 million parade, the first in Washington DC in more than 30 years, unfolded against a backdrop of protests and political violence
Washington DC was locked down and the capital’s airspace closed to flights as 6,500 troops marched down Constitution Avenue and helicopters flew overhead, fulfilling a long-standing ambition of Trump to stage a military parade — the first held in the American capital in more than 30 years.
Organisers for Saturday’s parade said they were expecting “hundreds of thousands” to attend but images of empty seats in stands along the parade route suggested turnout may not have been as high as hoped. It is possible the poor weather kept many at home.
The celebrations came just hours after a Democratic politician and her husband were shot dead in their Minnesota home by a man believed to be impersonating a police officer. Threats against other politicians in Texas were made on a day of widespread unrest and protests against the Trump administration, timed to coincide with Saturday’s $46 million event.
We can no longer agree on reality so MAGA maggots are probably saying this was the biggest best most successful parade ever and worth every penny…… So what if No Kings had a lot of people - Trunps gonna continue Trumping tomorrow and Americans aren’t stopping him.
Terrible energy here.
Not the approach.
Imagine being such a hated coward that you’re literally surrounded by the military, and still have to hide behind bullet proof glass
Fragging used to be a thing.
That’s why they took hand grenades during the W years. Soldiers were getting pretty sick of fighting for Halliburton.
He’s not going to risk one of his own taking more potshots at him again…
He wasn’t at risk before, staged PR stunt. Why do you think he put so many WWE employees in his cabinet?
This is a joke, right?
I miss when conspiracy theories could just be fun.
Like UFOs and cryptids and shit. Yeah…
Yeah… yeah.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_(political_advisor) I mistook UFC with WWE on this one, but the theater is very similar.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_McMahon Literally co-founded the WWE
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/19/donald-trump-pro-wrestling-wwe-00298303
https://19thnews.org/2025/04/trumpmania-professional-wrestling-influence-presidency/
Trump has even participated/hosted WWE events so he’s very familiar with the theatrics of professional wrestling. If you were to look up the videos of other presidential assassinations/attempts, note the response of the Secret Service and compare that to the Butler stunt. Not to mention that CNN had not televised any of his other rallies up to that point, the fact that his ear is completely unscathed, or how lackadaisical they’re conducting the investigation into the shooter.
That shit was staged, pure professional wrestling theatrics and the optics to gain a sympathy vote, and people ate it right up.
One word: mortars.
That’s what righteous men do while been righteous.
I think the location of that parade reviewing stand will make a great place to hang him upside down for public review.
Here in San Diego alone, we had more than 20,000 for No Kings. Pussolini’s bigly parade allegedly drew 10,000, and most of them left early looking for a Chick-fil-A.
80000 big papa!
Not tossing a couple grenades into his pope box was a failing that our military may never live down.
Zero risk. Would have become a hero.
They had tanks there. I think that would have been more performative.
Wooof,… kableeeewy,… SPLAT
Grand applause
Kinda like what they did to Sadat in 1981.
The ‘weather’ kept people away. You mean the cold front of fascism that has been pouring in???
This brings me joy.
Nothing is better than getting under his skin.
You know the ketchup is flying.
I mean I wish he’d have put some bleach under his skin way back when so we’d not be dealing with this specific scenario, rn:/
i did my part
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Too many punctuation marks, and too coherent to be authentic Diaper dribble, but I applaud your dedication!
Don’t forget about how these fictional characters saying “sir” were big strong manly men with tears in their eyes.
“May I see it?”
“… No.”
You’re an odd fellow Donald, but you steam a good ham
What a sad, low energy, failing perade
For a man from hollywood he sure is bad at producing. Reagan was better at literally everything, where are our leaders!? Reagan was still a terrible leader…
He’s from Atlantic City by way of NY. His former handlers were from Hollywood, but they’ve all left by now.
It is possible the poor weather kept many at home.
Right. Because I’m going to buy a ticket to DC, rent a hotel room, tell my friends I’m going… and then not go because it’s raining.
Meanwhile, millions of people showed up to protests in DC and other places with equally rainy forecasts. But sure, news, blame the weather instead of the fascism.
To be fair, that article was overall pretty plainly stating that the protests were overwhelmingly more well attended. Yes they had one line that raised the possibility of weather as a factor, but I think anyone but Trump could see the facts as presented in the story telling the real story.
Also went out of their way to characterize the protests as peaceful and the only politicians under violent threat were Democrats, despite the magnitude of protests.
You incorrectly assume that Trump’s sycophants are any better at reading comprehension than he is.
wp:It’s My Party (from the album wp:I’ll Cry If I Want To).
