Posted on 02/06/2018 3:21:46 PM PST by mandaladon
President Trump’s vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand military parade later this year showcasing the might of America’s armed forces.
Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagon’s tank — a room reserved for top secret discussions — marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the planning.
Surrounded by the military’s highest ranking officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford, Trump’s seemingly abstract desire for a parade was suddenly heard as a presidential directive, the officials said.
“The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” said a military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the planning discussions are supposed to remain confidential. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.”
American shows of military strength don’t come cheap. The cost of shipping Abrams tanks and high-tech hardware to Washington could run in the millions, and military officials said it was unclear how they would pay for it.
A White House official familiar with the planning described the discussions as “brainstorming” and said nothing is settled. “Right now there’s really no meat on the bones,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions.
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I want it onSunday, March 11, 2018! We will be there in do then....but they must have a huge military band playing all the wonderful patriotic songs that this generation doesn’t even know!
I think this is a great idea.
We can all see what we are paying for, and it would be a morale booster for the troops.
Multiple USAF flyovers would be a must.
The tourists filling DC would create a mini-boom economically.
Armed Forces Day in June would probably be the right time to do this.
I don’t know about this. Shades of communist countries.
I like the idea...but can the streets of DC handle Abrahams tanks rolling down them?
This HAS to be fake news.
Not really in favor of this. I subscribe to the Teddy Roosevelt philosophy:
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Showing off like this is such a communist/N. Korea/Nazi thing. Does not belong in a republic.
...but can the streets of DC handle Abrahams tanks rolling down them?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbLvpd9bUL4
Father Abraham had many sons
Many sons had Father Abraham,
I am one of them and so are you,
so let’s all praise the Lord...
LOL
Exactly, and a drill oppo on top of that.
Oh...The French stage military parades? In Paris???
You’d think they’d have taken real advantage of that in some truly spectacular yet decisive way by now.
Then they should do it with veteran soldiers from a veteran division and not some palace guards in Potemkin vehicles. A real Roman “triumph” for once wouldn’t be bad.
...Well, it would at least be honest!
Creepers please don’t fall for this Washington Post garbage. It’s meant to make Trump look like Hitler. It’s fake news it’s the Washington Post remember??
Reads like fake news to me.
The president expects your bet on the Preakness by May 1st.
You aren’t a kidding!
They’ll be comparing him to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Putin...
Oh wait, they already do. Carry on.
What parade in France is he referring to?
The Dems will think he means the one where the Germans rolled into Paris...
Speaking of which:
Why are the roads in France lined with trees?
So the Germans can march in the shade.
*******
I bet he plans on sending a photo to the Norks.
Well, Reagan was already packing heat when he was President.
The tranny troops are really going to hate marching in those painful dress pumps.
Apparently there was one for Bastille Day.
Ah yes, humor from the WW2 generation.
I remember the victory parade in Chicago on VJ Day. I was 7. Memo to President Trump: Make sure they play enough Sousa!
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