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Russian state media mocks Trump's July 4 military celebration: 'Putin's America'
Journalists with Russian state-run media mocked the military hardware featured in President Trump’s “Salute to America” Fourth of July celebration earlier this week, with some joking about the quality of the equipment and others blasting the spectacle as something you would see under “Putin’s America.”
During a broadcast of Russian television show “60 minutes,” which airs on the state-owned Russian television channel, Rossiya 1, journalists mocked the military equipment in footage of the hardware captured in Washington earlier this week, The Washington Post reports.
In video from the program, the journalists joked about the “paint peeling off” and some of the features they said had been had been “glued on with adhesive tape” to some of the military vehicles.
In a tweet featuring footage of some of the military equipment arriving in Washington, D.C., Skabeyeva wrote in Russian with a "laughing" emoji: “Tanks in the streets of Washington, Trump is preparing for the parade. Putin’s America.”
During a broadcast of Russian television show “60 minutes,” which airs on the state-owned Russian television channel, Rossiya 1, journalists mocked the military equipment in footage of the hardware captured in Washington earlier this week, The Washington Post reports.
In video from the program, the journalists joked about the “paint peeling off” and some of the features they said had been had been “glued on with adhesive tape” to some of the military vehicles.
In a tweet featuring footage of some of the military equipment arriving in Washington, D.C., Skabeyeva wrote in Russian with a "laughing" emoji: “Tanks in the streets of Washington, Trump is preparing for the parade. Putin’s America.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/451803-russian-state-media-mocks-trumps-july-4-military-celebration-putins-america
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