FRONT PAGE Trump's $12 mil military 'parade' to cost almost $100 mil according to U.S. Department of Defense

[phands]

Yet more scummy behaviour from the tangerine traitor...

In order to feel a little more adequate, Donald Trump’s planned military parade needs to be bigly. Like really, really bigly. After early promises of keeping the costs of this fascistic display below $15 million, the early estimates were no less than twice that. Trump’s White House released estimates that put the number down to $12 million just this past month. Well, it’s looking like it might cost tax payers just a teeny weeny bit more to make Donald Trump believe he is a big boy like his buddies Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. Sources inside of the Department of Defense told CNBC that there are some newly revised “estimates.”

The parade, slated for Nov. 10, is estimated to cost $92 million, the official said. The figure includes $50 million from the Pentagon and $42 million from interagency partners such as the Department of Homeland Security. An initial estimate last month pegged the prospective cost for the parade at $12 million.
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There’s a theme with Republicans like Trump. Promises of cheap and easy ways to make a buck, followed by the most egregious spending to make nothing.

The entire country should boycott this obscenity...and no respectable media should cover it. Faux news will, of course, masturbate like wild monkeys over it.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...00-mil-according-to-U-S-Department-of-Defense

 

[Underseer]

Why aren't more conservatives embarrassed by this? Military parades used to be a thing just for tyrants like the Soviets, North Korea, the Nazis, fascist Italy, various banana republics, etc.

 

[Elixir]

Why aren't more conservatives embarrassed by this? Military parades used to be a thing just for tyrants like the Soviets, North Korea, the Nazis, fascist Italy, various banana republics, etc.

Embarrassed conservatives are an extinct species.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Oh yeah... this shit. FFS!

 

[Worldtraveller]

Why aren't more conservatives embarrassed by this? Military parades used to be a thing just for tyrants like the Soviets, North Korea, the Nazis, fascist Italy, various banana republics, etc.

Embarrassed conservatives are an extinct species.

Yeah, to be embarrassed would require a sense of shame in the first place.

 

[Axulus]

Yet more scummy behaviour from the tangerine traitor...

In order to feel a little more adequate, Donald Trump’s planned military parade needs to be bigly. Like really, really bigly. After early promises of keeping the costs of this fascistic display below $15 million, the early estimates were no less than twice that. Trump’s White House released estimates that put the number down to $12 million just this past month. Well, it’s looking like it might cost tax payers just a teeny weeny bit more to make Donald Trump believe he is a big boy like his buddies Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. Sources inside of the Department of Defense told CNBC that there are some newly revised “estimates.”

The parade, slated for Nov. 10, is estimated to cost $92 million, the official said. The figure includes $50 million from the Pentagon and $42 million from interagency partners such as the Department of Homeland Security. An initial estimate last month pegged the prospective cost for the parade at $12 million.
​

There’s a theme with Republicans like Trump. Promises of cheap and easy ways to make a buck, followed by the most egregious spending to make nothing.

The entire country should boycott this obscenity...and no respectable media should cover it. Faux news will, of course, masturbate like wild monkeys over it.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...00-mil-according-to-U-S-Department-of-Defense

Why in the fuck doesn't Congress have to appropriate the funds for this monstrocity?

 

[phands]

Why in the fuck doesn't Congress have to appropriate the funds for this monstrocity?

A VERY good question! They take food from starving kids, but this will likely go ahead.

 

[phands]

....and according to AP, it's been "delayed" until at least 2019.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/trumps-military-parade-will-be-delayed-at-least-until-2019-report/

 

[untermensche]

Those judges got impeached for less.

 

[phands]

And now the orange bastard is claiming that *he* cancelled it to save the country all that money, while blaming the democrats.

 

[starwater]

And now the orange bastard is claiming that *he* cancelled it to save the country all that money, while blaming the democrats.

And the city of Washington because they were greedy.

 

[Opoponax]

In every word and deed, Trump is a steaming pile of dog shit.

I was kinda hoping that if the parade did happen, that Trump would show up in a custom-made military outfit with medals all over it, wearing a big hat, with big sunglasses.

But really, it's good it didn't happen. I think we would've seen some serious shit go down in the form of protesters blocking the roads, standing in front of tanks, etc. There are people ready to to do that kind of thing. Or maybe those people are just internet heroes, much the same way hyper conservative 2nd Amendment Trumptards are.

Whatever the case, Trump's still dog shit.