It’ll be special
The BBC raises a skeptical eyebrow at Donnie Two-scoops’s wannabe-Mussolini parade.
“We’re going to have planes going overhead – the best fighter jets in the world and other planes too,” the Republican president told reporters at the White House on Monday.
“And we’re going to have some tanks stationed outside.”
He said the event will “be like no other, it’ll be special”.
You can hear them sniggering from all the way over here.
City leaders have spoken out against the idea.
“We have said it before, and we’ll say it again: Tanks, but no tanks,” the District of Columbia council tweeted on Monday.
We have said it before, and we’ll say it again: Tanks, but no tanks. (PS: The @DeptofDefense agrees, see highlighted area below) pic.twitter.com/ock2EORKNz
— Council of DC (@councilofdc) July 1, 2019
But the vanity project must go forward!
Mr Trump has ordered a flyover by the Navy’s Blue Angels and the presidential jet Air Force One, the Washington Post reported.
He also wants the chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines standing next to him during the display, according to the New York Times.
The military flyover will halt air traffic at the US capital city’s main airport, Reagan National, for more than two hours on Thursday evening.
No inconvenience is too great to feed Donnie’s ravenous narcissism!
Critics of Mr Trump said his involvement in 4 July amounts to a partisan takeover of a national holiday.
“Risking damage to local infrastructure and dumping huge piles of taxpayer money onto the never-ending bonfire of Donald Trump’s vanity,” congressman Don Beyer, a Virginia Democrat, said in a tweet.
Kellyanne Conway says it’s all about the patriotism.
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway told reporters the president’s Independence Day remarks would pay tribute to “how wonderful this country is”.
“Our troops and military,” Mrs Conway said. “Our great democracy. And great call to patriotism.”
I’m not seeing the “our great democracy” part though. Looks more like our great pseudo-monarchy which is actually not great at all, instead.
I’m not seeing the “our great democracy” part though. Looks more like our great pseudo-monarchy which is actually not great at all, instead.
WHADDYA MEAN not great at all? WHADDYA MEAN?
Ask any drinker in any bar you like, and they’ll tell ya!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwZdTB9lJrw
https://twitter.com/CrimeADay/status/1146196079257563137
“When fascism arrives in America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross”.
I forget who said that. (Or rather, I’m too lazy to google it.)
zackoz, it’s usually attributed to Sinclair Lewis, but I’ve seen sources that claim he didn’t say it, either. It could be a tagline for his book It Can’t Happen Here, though.
Tanks don’t just get driven around like fire trucks. Tracks wear out fairly quickly, and replacing them is expensive. Road damage from heavy tracked vehicles is very serious. In real life, tanks have to be carried by rail, or by enormous trucks, to wherever they’re going to be used.
Of course they do! Trump has seen them – in the movies, on TV – being driven. Therefore, they are driven, just like fire trucks. Just like Hummers or Honda Civics, they are driven! FAKE NEWS!
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