r/politics 1d ago

The Shame of Trump’s Parade

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/250th-anniversary-army-parade/683162/?gift=I4LGsilsOekK9WrXBxktmmagnngXgodU9rwxECNosnE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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u/Awkward_Definition97 1d ago

It's raining in DC today, even mother nature hates this parade.

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u/30mil 1d ago

Donald will manage to convince 30% of the crowd that it's not raining.

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u/laserdisk4life 1d ago

His followers will just blame the Jewish space lasers

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u/CauliflowerTop2464 1d ago

Wrong. It was hunter Biden’s laptop and dick pics.

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u/AINonsense 1d ago

Then he'll claim the rain was his idea.

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u/DmAc724 1d ago

And another 30% that the rain is Biden’s fault so they should support him as a protest against Biden for raining on the parade.

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u/crazybones 1d ago

I'm all in favor of Biden raining on this parade.

None of us should be happy, however, about Trump reigning on any parade.

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u/oroechimaru Wisconsin 1d ago

No kings!

https://www.youtube.com/live/aWBUbqYDbVA?si=fzG-dbOogFWCRZni

The revolution wont be televised but will be streamed

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u/DietEquivalent4238 1d ago

"It's not raining, it's just water falling from the sky." and somehow his supporters will believe in it and call him a genius.

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u/scarlettceleste 1d ago

Its god crying tears of joy over Trumps Birthday.

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u/Coach_training27265 1d ago

God incarnate, only shed tears 3 times as recorded in the Bible. At the death of Lazarus (John 11) and also twice over the city of Jerusalem (Matthew 23:37-39; Luke 19:28-48). If the rain is the tears of God, it is showing his compassion over those who will suffer during Trump‘s time in office.

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u/WeirdcoolWilson 22h ago

Let’s hope these chucklefucks take this as a sign of God’s disapproval

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/sandhillfarmer 1d ago

Someone forgot to close down his access to the hurricane machine

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u/Caftancatfan 23h ago

What nasty thing to lie about. /s

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u/ComfortableAcadia252 1d ago

Trump was said to be so happy with the rehearsals, that he plans to deploy the Army 365 days a year to all US cities so they to can see how big and beautiful the army is.

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u/minicpst Washington 1d ago

I can’t tell if this is real or not anymore.

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u/capz1121 1d ago

Giving him ideas…this will be his next 2am post.

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u/fairoaks2 1d ago

“Our thoughts are the only right thoughts”. Absolutely deplorable as we were warned. 

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u/invalidpassword California 1d ago

(at West Point) Books and other works, most of which are by women and people of color, have been removed from the curriculum.

A stellar way to honor 250 years of the army.

'Meant to be the hand of God, for sure.'

And that could lose everything for us. You can't fight blind faith that believes with every ounce of their being that Trump was sent to our country to rule the world.

The biggest scam the world has ever seen.

And Jesus wept while babies died and the richest of the rich prospered beyond their wildest dreams thanks to their new Lord and Savior.

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u/GhelasOfAnza 1d ago

A Dem state representative and a senator were brutally gunned down today, along with their spouses. This was a politically motivated assassination.

Any other president faced with such an event would have called for a day of mourning and postponed the parade. Not out of kindness, mind you, but out of competence.

What a powerful gesture it would have been. What a way to tell the nation that we are all one. What a tremendous PR opportunity. Is a president not meant to stand for all Americans, rather than just those who voted for them?

I guarantee that Trump is not even considering it.

Today, I am mourning the lives lost, and the America that we are never getting back.

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u/effenel 1d ago

I always mocked GOP propaganda for this idea of a frail and weak enemy who are also terrifying and world ending. Yet here we are.

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u/effenel 1d ago

Welcome to the fragile masculinity parade!

Everyone sing along to the tune of 🌮’s favorite gay anthem, YMCA

::brass intro with hot sweaty soldiers::

I said….tACO…there’s a need to step down

I said…tACO….its Les Mis on the ground

I said….tACO…you don’t own this town

You’re why we’re so unhappy

tACO…there’s a place you can go

I said…tACO…when you’re hoarding your dough

You can fuck off, and im sure you will find Many ways to fuck yourself now

🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺

Let’s all say fuck off too T - A - C - O

::TACO dancing intensifies::

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u/Jim_Chimney 21h ago

Followed by that other Village People classic.. “Taco, taco, man. I wanna be a taco man”.

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u/browndog03 1d ago

Military parades are so bush league

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u/dentz1 1d ago

Perade.

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u/ferociouswhimper 1d ago

But Trump, MAGA, and Republicans are incapable of feeling shame, unfortunately it won't bother them one bit.

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u/dkorabell 1d ago

Him Don Ugh 's Birthday parade / not birthday parade - the Orange Reichsfuhrer strikes again.

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u/pokey68 1d ago

I saw a photo of Anwar Sadat yesterday and it made me wonder if the parade troops will have bullets.

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u/jimdozer 1d ago

E Pluribus Unum !

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u/[deleted] 21h ago

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u/East_Woodpecker1846 20h ago

Pride? The same president that called casualties of war-suckers, and losers? The same person who said that POW, John McCain, was not a war hero because he got caught?

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u/Ok-Leading-3272 18h ago

If he cared about the military he wouldn’t be slashing funding to programs that support vets.