And now, in 2025, nothing has changed, but he doesn't care. 16 MILLION that would NOT have to be spent if this never happened. 16 MILLION that could help kids, veterans, the elderly...everyone facing program cuts...that we'd have to spend to fix the streets after spending $45 MILLION to "honor" a draft dodger, rapist, and felon.

Remember they are taking measures (using steel plates at turning points) to try to minimize the damage, but it's entirely possible their mitigation efforts don't work as well as they hope and the damage is far greater than they expect.

If it's something he wants and demands, to try to "sell" it to the people the costs will always be at the lowest level possible. That's a given.

This just jacks my jaws. I'm a Viet Nam era veteran. As a draft dodger, he should not have anything military associated with him, I don't care if he is CnC. He certainly isn't MY president and if he knew anything about me, I'd be on his hit list. He certainly isn't the president to what... over 70 million US citizens? Nor does he try to be. He's a draft dodging asshole who had someone else sent to Viet Nam instead of himself... at that early age, he was already sending men to war to die for him. Rotten apples are rotten apples for all time.

...but I assume that if the town is ripped up, they're going to suffer as well, so that could also be added to the cost..."lost revenue"...

Needs a sash with military medals, all gold.

Surely our brave cartoonists have already worked this up.

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If the street in front of the tyrant's reviewing stand was emblazoned with giant TACO letters.

if the Army sent a lot of vehicles that won't start to Washington and none that will. Or if they decided to not send any tracked vehicles and just sent up a bunch of cargo trucks.

I REPEAT FUCK HIM.

The Secret Service will strip search every inch of every turret. Also, there won’t be a main gun firing pin within a thousand clicks of the parade route and the 240 and M2 weapons will be in their arms rooms.

and our nation's other ways and means of feeding hungry people.

to provide places for the troops to sleep leading up to the parade.

What a way to pay respect to our Army personnel on their 250th anniversary than having them sleep in offices.

they get some off the books leave afterwards. I was in one parade while in the Navy. Three days of prep, dress whites etc. Three hours on the field and the Admiral spent a few minutes checking us out.

Hours wasted practicing and rehearsing. More hours wasted spiffing up a uniform that was otherwise never worn. More hours wasted standing around waiting for instructions. Hours taken away from much more useful work and activities.

A retirement or change-of-command ceremony was bad enough, but a parade was at least 10x worse.

(At least at the last retirement ceremony I had to attend had a little levity...it was the mid-70's, and we were all standing at attention in the parade field when they started the music. One of the selections was "The Liberty Bell March". Think about it for just one second - it's the late 70's, a bunch of mostly 17 to 20-somethings all standing at attention, when the Monty Python theme music starts. You could see the shoulders heaving as half the troops tried to suppress laughter. A few were unsuccessful at suppression. All the while, the older folks with scrambled eggs on their hat brims on the reviewing stand are wondering what the hell was going on in the ranks to elicit such a reaction. Priceless! I think that the majority of us were all hoping for a giant foot to come down from the sky to put a final point on the event.)

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This is yet another ABUSE of power, even though it is less heinous than his attacks on multiple fronts against the American people and our Constitutional democracy.

WASTE, FRAUD, & ABUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, we will be the laughing stock of the world. I'll be dead by the time the United States of America regains even a semblance of it's reputation. This man ruins everything he touches.

In fact, I would even approve of a $50,000 tRump Funeral on that date and place. It would be the biggest fucking party this country ever saw (even bigger than landing on the moon).

by doing this.

Question is, will the "value" of trump's narcissistic birthday parade be appreciated by the taxpayers who will be footing the $71 million tab when they can't afford day-to-day necessities for their own families that trump only takes for granted.

It's time for Karma to make its entrance. He wasn't brought up right to know right from wrong; he's strictly a taker who's concerned about only himself. He's mentally ill, & after everything I've seen, I believe more than ever that trump stole this election to get the revenge he could only dream about -- and, apparently, he's willing to step on his own voters to get what he wants. He's ugly inside and out.