A $46 million parade, the first in Washington DC in more than 30 years, unfolded against a backdrop of protests and political violence
Washington DC was locked down and the capital’s airspace closed to flights as 6,500 troops marched down Constitution Avenue and helicopters flew overhead, fulfilling a long-standing ambition of Trump to stage a military parade — the first held in the American capital in more than 30 years.
Organisers for Saturday’s parade said they were expecting “hundreds of thousands” to attend but images of empty seats in stands along the parade route suggested turnout may not have been as high as hoped. It is possible the poor weather kept many at home.
The celebrations came just hours after a Democratic politician and her husband were shot dead in their Minnesota home by a man believed to be impersonating a police officer. Threats against other politicians in Texas were made on a day of widespread unrest and protests against the Trump administration, timed to coincide with Saturday’s $46 million event.
Imagine being such a hated coward that you’re literally surrounded by the military, and still have to hide behind bullet proof glass
He’s not going to risk one of his own taking more potshots at him again…
He wasn’t at risk before, staged PR stunt. Why do you think he put so many WWE employees in his cabinet?
This is a joke, right?
I miss when conspiracy theories could just be fun.
Yeah… yeah.
Like UFOs and cryptids and shit. Yeah…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_(political_advisor) I mistook UFC with WWE on this one, but the theater is very similar.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_McMahon Literally co-founded the WWE
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/19/donald-trump-pro-wrestling-wwe-00298303
https://19thnews.org/2025/04/trumpmania-professional-wrestling-influence-presidency/
Trump has even participated/hosted WWE events so he’s very familiar with the theatrics of professional wrestling. If you were to look up the videos of other presidential assassinations/attempts, note the response of the Secret Service and compare that to the Butler stunt. Not to mention that CNN had not televised any of his other rallies up to that point, the fact that his ear is completely unscathed, or how lackadaisical they’re conducting the investigation into the shooter.
That shit was staged, pure professional wrestling theatrics and the optics to gain a sympathy vote, and people ate it right up.
One word: mortars.
That’s what righteous men do while been righteous.
Fragging used to be a thing.
That’s why they took hand grenades during the W years. Soldiers were getting pretty sick of fighting for Halliburton.
God, wouldn’t that have been the perfect moment to turn all those tanks to point at the goldfish and minions in their glass bowl and quickly put an end to this mess? (yes I know it would start a new mess but still).
“About time we celebrated???” Wtf
Do the military want a parade for themselves? I bet they sure as fuck don’t. This was all about you and your ego, fat-stain. Get bent.
I hope someone took a photo. $46million is a lot of our tax payer money to go to waste like that.
Here in San Diego alone, we had more than 20,000 for No Kings. Pussolini’s bigly parade allegedly drew 10,000, and most of them left early looking for a Chick-fil-A.
80000 big papa!
I pray that this was his last birthday he celebrates above ground.
Monkey’s Paw: His next birthday is spent underground because WW3 kicked off and he is in a nuclear bunker.
How about we just tell him it’s happened, hasten him to a bunker, and then let him take to some guy via radio that lets him think he’s one of the few survivors.
Hell, that’d be a good use for AI. Let it listen to his rambling and simulate a human response so nobody else needs to bother
“McDonald’s has lost the war against Taco Bell. The Big Mac is no more…”
😩
If Trump becomes a mole person we are all doomed.
It’s already hard to tell his ass from his face, we might be there already
Hopefully he meets a peaceful end with an appropriate tie around his neck that shows how much people appreciate his life’s works.
Or when his overly long tie gets sucked into the toilet on Air Force One while it’s struggling to evacuate a series of Mc Donalds shit pebbles. Preferably caught on tape and posted to TikTok.
That fat fuck will live into his mid-80s at least. We pay for an insane level of health care.
I want him to live long enough to be in the 2028 GOP primaries (and the 2032, and 2036, and so on and so on …,).
Not tossing a couple grenades into his pope box was a failing that our military may never live down.
Zero risk. Would have become a hero.
They had tanks there. I think that would have been more performative.
Wooof,… kableeeewy,… SPLAT
Grand applause
Kinda like what they did to Sadat in 1981.
Fake news. Ugly lies. It was the biggest and most beautiful parade ever. Everyone is saying it. No one has ever had a parade like this. They tell me Sir you parade had the most people at it in the history of parades. I have ordered the FBI and DHS to investigate and eliminate anyone that disagrees. It was a big beautiful parade.
“May I see it?”
“… No.”
You’re an odd fellow Donald, but you steam a good ham
Don’t forget about how these fictional characters saying “sir” were big strong manly men with tears in their eyes.
“Billions and billions of people in total awe of my amazing parade, one like no one has EVER seen before because I only do the best and nobody understands the military like I do. Some say I’m be the best commander-in-chief in the HISTORY of the world! The ratings were through the roof, not like sleepy Joe’s “no kings” parade who stole the 2020 election with all those billions and billions of cheating ballots and their russia russia russia conspiracy while nobody is doing anything about the immigrants eating all your cats and dogs. You know a lot of people say that my parade was the best parade out of the billions and billions of parades ever …” - the Donvict probably.
Too many punctuation marks, and too coherent to be authentic Diaper dribble, but I applaud your dedication!
Trump is literally the dog in the burning house meme. This is fine.
No, trump is the fire. And everyone who normalises and excuses him are the dog.
It’s just an open air catalog for Bibi to pick from. “Donald, I want that thing, two of the 6 wheel things, gimme a couple of the pointy cylinders with fins, and keep it coming!”
Meanwhile, Zelensky is furious at getting a busy signal when he calls Donald.
I’m glad it went so poorly.
It is possible the poor weather kept many at home.
Right. Because I’m going to buy a ticket to DC, rent a hotel room, tell my friends I’m going… and then not go because it’s raining.
Meanwhile, millions of people showed up to protests in DC and other places with equally rainy forecasts. But sure, news, blame the weather instead of the fascism.
To be fair, that article was overall pretty plainly stating that the protests were overwhelmingly more well attended. Yes they had one line that raised the possibility of weather as a factor, but I think anyone but Trump could see the facts as presented in the story telling the real story.
Also went out of their way to characterize the protests as peaceful and the only politicians under violent threat were Democrats, despite the magnitude of protests.
You incorrectly assume that Trump’s sycophants are any better at reading comprehension than he is.
Organisers for Saturday’s parade said they were expecting “hundreds of thousands” to attend
Ah, bless 'em.
it’s possible the poor weather kept them at home
It’s also possible that’s not the reason
It didn’t stop the protestors. Millions came out.
11,000,000 versus what, 2500? Do we have any official numbers for the parade
traitorsgoers“Ah, yes, the official numbers are…”
<checks notes>
“Yes, ‘the bigliest numbers. More than ever. Yuge. So much.’… As you can see, we had a record turnout”
Confused boomers, whatcha gonna do.
“Uh, Captain or Sergeant or whatever you are? Where’s the bus to the In-dinn casinos?”
more so for many Trump supporters.
Opens up Southern euphemism to standard English translation book
Yes I agree.
What a sad, low energy, failing perade
I think the location of that parade reviewing stand will make a great place to hang him upside down for public review.
