The lengths and expense Donald Trump expects this nation to go to in order to flatter his own high opinion of himself just jumped all the sharks; the Washington Post reports Trump is demanding his own military parade.
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. [...]
“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.”
He wants it because he saw it in France. He wants to see tanks and soldiers, and rather than Cadet Bone Spurs being shuttled out to any of our fine military establishments and war zones in which he could see those things, he wants them to parade down a Washington street so he still has time to visit the golf course afterwards. The military has confirmed, on the record, that they have begun planning for such a thing.
I can only presume that everyone involved in this, sans Trump, knows how stupid and ridiculous it is to design and stage a brand-new military equipment parade winding through the streets of Washington D.C. so that this cheeseburger-sucking narcissist does not feel personally inferior to the president of France. Reading between the lines, this may be the case:
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.
Translation: Like the Fake News Awards, the White House is desperately hoping this moron forgets he made this demand. But he is not going to forget.
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.
Bullshit. Donald Trump has never in his life given a shit about the service and sacrifice of the military. Donald Trump wants to see big trucks. This is a repeat of fire truck day at the White House using the nation's soldiers as Donald's props.
As an aside, and I invite all the people upset by such unpleasant notions to kindly and emphatically get bent, an obsessive devotion and glamorization of all things militaristic is yet another of the defining characteristics of fascism. He and his party has been ticking down the list quite insistently, one by one, this whole time. A lovely military parade, with the Dotard in Chief offering empty, awkward salutes to thousands of soldiers driven in purposely for the occasion, will make a lovely picture for the future history books.
We’re about this close to the man dressing himself up as a general. Inventing such a costume may have been the administration job ex-sheriff Clarke had been hinting he had been given, back when he was doing the hinting; the delay may only be because all the appropriate medals have not been dug out of the appropriate cereal boxes.