Posted on 11/06/2019 10:09:41 AM PST by Kaslin
President Donald J. Trump will be the first president to kick off New York City's Veteran's Day parade on Monday according to the New York Post.
"Trump will address the 100th Annual Opening Ceremony of the parade on Monday and then will lay a wreath at the Eternal Light Memorial at Madison Square Park," reports Marisa Schultz.
"This is a day when we put politics aside to focus on honoring our veterans, and to re-commit ourselves as a community to providing them with the services they have earned, the services they deserve and, for many, the services they were denied," Doug McGowan, chairman of the United War Veterans Council Board, told the paper.
"We thank and commend President Trump for leading that effort on this Centennial, and we acknowledge his historic support for our activities here in New York City," he added.
"The President has been great supporter of our veterans and indeed this parade here in New York City for more than 25 years," Bill White, 2019 Veteran’s Day Parade co-producer, told the New York Post.
"What he is doing now as president with regard to veterans choice, funding our military, and holding them and their families in the highest regard is truly extraordinary. He is loved by our veterans for sure," White explained.
President Trump is the first commander-in-chief since President Bush to spend his Veteran's Day in NYC.
.@realDonaldTrump to be first president to kick off New York City’s Veterans Day Parade on Monday, per @JuddPDeere45. pic.twitter.com/yaLQRsoBH0— Fin Gomez (@finnygo) November 6, 2019
NYC is going to be a total clown show that day. The current Democrat Fascist Party is utterly incapable of taking a day off and being Americans 1st.
Hey, free advertising for 2020 is expensive. Better to just have dumb people give you the optics at their expense.
Trump must have large brass ones to do that in NYC.
I’ll bet that the SS are going nuts about protection.
Yes right in their face after they said good riddance. What are Cuomo, deblasio, schumer, Gillibrand, AOC gonna say?
Trump sort of owns this parade. He’s saved it more than once.
The 1995 NYC Veterans Day Parade Had $1.21 In The Bank. Then Donald Trump Stepped InPresident Donald Trump will lead New York City’s 100th annual Veterans Day Parade next week, becoming the first sitting president to accept the honor, the event’s organizers announced Wednesday.
But while Trump will be making history Monday as he attends the parade, an offer the United Veterans War Council has made to every president since 1985, his involvement as a citizen with the annual Veterans Day event dates back to 1995 when he saved the event from dire financial straits.
Less than three months before the 1995 Veterans Day parade, in mid-August, organizers had just $1.21 in the event’s bank account after receiving nothing from the 200 corporations, including military contractors, they had reached out to for financial support, The New York Times reported in 1995.
“Zippo, dada, zilch,” the 1995 parade’s executive director, Tom Fox, told The NYT. “Nothing from Northrup, United Technologies, none of them. To me, it’s a sin.”
It was at that point then-businessman Trump stepped in and saved the event by contributing between $325,000 and $375,000, parade organizer Vincent McGowan told CNN in 2016.
Trump’s contribution unleashed a windfall of donations to the parade’s organizers. While the parade’s budget was ultimately reduced from $2.9 million to $2.4 million, The NYT reported, the show was able to go on.
Trump had also requested to be named the grand marshal of the 1995 parade in exchange for his contribution, a move that had reportedly angered some veterans at the time, but McGowan told CNN that Trump was never given the honor because he was not a veteran.
McGowan could not be reached for comment, but a spokesman for the United Veterans War Council told the Daily Caller News Foundation that CNN’s reporting in 2016 that Trump had saved the 1995 Veterans Day Parade was accurate.
Trump’s donation to help the 1995 parade followed a $1 million contribution he made in 1985 to help fund the construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in New York City.
As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump donated $1 million to the Marine Corps Law-Enforcement Foundation, a charity that provides educational services to the children of fallen Marines and police officers, CNN reported.
Wow. Didn’t know all that.
As commander in chief still can’t be grand marshall?
Yup, I found that when researching Trump in 2015. He’s actually a bit of a philanthropist.
Are the Democrats hyperventilating? I mean more than usual?
Cool! I might have to go into NYC on Monday.
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