Trump directs Pentagon to schedule military parade for Veterans' Day

[demmiblue]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump’s plans for a White House-backed military parade are beginning to take shape.

The president has directed the Department of Defense to organize a parade that would take place on Nov. 11 – Veteran’s Day – according to an unclassified Feb. 20 memo written by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.

The memo, which was summarized to POLITICO by a senior administration official, was sent from McMaster to Secretary of Defense James Mattis. It says that Trump wants Mattis to brief him on “concepts of operation for this event.”

The memo also said that the parade route should begin at the White House and end at the Capitol.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/23/trump-military-parade-veterans-day-423405

[PatSeg]

1. So, he actually believes he'll be around

in November? Well, that's decidedly optimistic or insanely delusional.

[lagomorph777]

17. You stole my line!

It's so cute that Trump thinks he'll still be around.

Perhaps he could still be in the parade - in a cage! I know where we can get a cage on wheels with low mileage.

[PatSeg]

19. Ha, ha, ha!

And I'll bet he even thinks he'll be around to run in the next presidential election. His biggest lies are probably the ones he tells himself.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Yes. He has massive self-delusion & confusion about collusion. . . . nt

[PatSeg]

24. "Self-delusion and confusion about collusion"

How poetic! Would make a great song title.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. I think another DUer came up with a rough version of that phrase first. . . . nt

[PatSeg]

34. I can hear it in my head

Very catchy!

[rock]

23. I started to say

Do you think he'll be able to observe it from his cell?

[quartz007]

29. The GOP House gonna impeach tRump?

You are way more optimistic than me.

[PatSeg]

33. I don't know

Maybe he'll resign. I just have a feeling he might not make it to November. There is also talk that perhaps he CAN be indicted. We'll see!

[quartz007]

44. His Hotel in DC is making huge profits

and his hotels all over the world have gained occupancy. I guess everyone and his uncle wishes to say they stayed in Trump hotel. I know his 2 sons are running the business, but the whole tRump family is cashing in. There ought to be a law for any president to SELL all his money making assets before assuming office..

[PatSeg]

46. There are so many things,

that I assumed were laws, but apparently many are traditions, traditions that no president until Trump would have the nerve to violate.

The fool who demanded President Obama's long form birth certificate, won't even release his tax returns. He just makes up the rules as he goes. Come the day that Democrats have the White House, the Senate, and the House, I think a lot of the "traditions" will become law. No one person should have as much power as Trump has. I know it has become a cliche, but the man truly thinks he was elected king.

[Nictuku]

2. Hrrm, just after the 2018 midterms

... kind of gives me the creeps.

[left-of-center2012]

3. "begin at the White House and end at the Capitol"

Sending troops to the Congress?

Hmm?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

40. Begin at the White House and end at the Federal Prison.

Trump, Trump Mini-me, Kushner, Ivanka and anyone else in that crime family should be driven along the parade route in a transparent Lucite box.

[Scarsdale]

4. Time for taxpayers

to stage a revolt. This tRump family is the most costly EVER to live in the WH, or DC. Why are we being scammed to pay for a parade for a draft dodger who is nothing more than a con man? He has made enough money from renting out his shitty hotels to himself and SS, let HIM pay for this farce.

[riversedge]

5. I do wish there would be a revolt. But I am

not an organizer-but will protest or whatever. This is so sad.

[Sneederbunk]

12. Any demonstration will be cast as dissing veterans.

[Squinch]

36. But because it won't be that, we should not let them frame the narrative, and we should

definitely protest it and try to stop it.

The soldiers don't want it, it has nothing to do with vets, it serves no purpose except to give the republican president's tiny little ...fingers ... a jolly.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

41. Trump doesn't even pay taxes, as far as we know. Why should we pay for his ego-parade?

El Doucheo

[quartz007]

45. You lead the revolt, I may follow

IRS is scary.

[bluestarone]

6. he can call it what he wants too I will call it

A NOVEMBER BLUE WAVE PARADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[keithbvadu2]

7. 1.5 miles apart... How big is the staging area at each end?

1.5 miles apart... How big is the staging area at each end?

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question132752.html

Trump does not want to salute the military.
He wants the world to see the military salute him.

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fw

[PatSeg]

25. Love the toon!

[busterbrown]

8. It makes sense to me..

When we were kids (grade school) my pals and i used to go down to the beach or to a construction site to play war..with our air rifles (no bullets, just popping sounds).

Well I guess Sargent 1st class Trump.. wants to play war..

[Historic NY]

9. 1.8 mile 36 minute walk....

All on the day that the National WWI Memorial is supposed to be dedicated in Pershing Park.

[Pathwalker]

10. So, this year's October surprise will be bombing N. Korea.

Please try to act surprised.

[Bayard]

11. Will they still do this

If he has been indicted?

My dad was a WWII veteran, my grandfather, WWI. They were the real thing......hero's and patriots. It would be great if veterans would turn out in mass to protest this charade.

[rsdsharp]

13. I know DC is sort of in the South

but a parade in mid November? Is the dolt going to stand outside if it rains, or snows? With luck, he can reenact the 31 days of William Henry Harrison's presidency.

[jmowreader]

14. Thanks for glorifying me, boys. Heres your food boxes.

[hibbing]

15. I cannot believe this

But, just like almost anything this horrible person does, I shouldn't be surprised by anything any more.

Peace

[lillypaddle]

16. We must protest and boycott this travesty

Unless it's a celebration of his impeachment or indictment.

[Squinch]

37. Block the roads if we need to.

[Zorro]

18. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month

armed hostilities were ceased in "The War to End All Wars".

It's a day to honor those who died in all wars and to reflect on the horrors of war.

I think it highly inappropriate to glorify military might on that day.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. More hypocrisy about veterans from the RepubliConMen led by Don the Con(vict). . . . . nt

[SergeStorms]

22. That stupid son of a bitch........

is actually going to go through with this hair-brained notion? I give up. I fucking give up!

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. The American people and the people of planet earth hate this man for good reason.

He will isolate us even further, he is the worst human being alive who has not murdered people (just making a distinction for accuracy sake)

[bronxiteforever]

27. I cant wait to see the golf cart division!

[C_U_L8R]

28. 11:11

Auspicious

[Docreed2003]

30. Sick

This fucker has the gall to claim he cares about veterans yet as 20 veterans per day are dying from suicide, he’d rather throw a dumb ass parade costing millions than fund mental health services for veterans.

[dmoyer]

31. ...interesting...

The route of the proposed parade will pass right by the Trump DC hotel

[FiveGoodMen]

35. Maybe they could take that opportunity to demo some of their hardware

[hexola]

38. We already have a National Veterans Day Parade in Birmingham!

http://nationalveteransday.org/

Although World War I officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles, fighting ceased seven months earlier after an armistice between the allied nations and Germany commenced on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. Armistice Day was set aside to honor veterans of World War I. But after World War II required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen in the nation’s history, a World War II veteran from Birmingham named Raymond Weeks had an idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans. In 1947 he led a delegation to Washington, D.C. to urge then-Army Chief of Staff General Dwight Eisenhower to create a national holiday that honored all veterans. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed legislation establishing November 11th as Veterans Day. President Reagan honored Weeks as the driving force for the national holiday with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 at the White House. Weeks led the first National Veterans Day Parade in 1947 in Alabama, and he continued the tradition until his passing in 1985.

[Mc Mike]

39. Yeah, President Bone Spurs wants to honor the Vets.

[nitpicker]

42. He just wants a parade past his hotel

To improve the occupancy rate.

The standard DC parade route is down Constitution Avenue from about 7th Street through 17th.

[truthisfreedom]

43. Fuck off you fucking third world fuck.

Useless commander in tweet.