Chris Hayes Cackles at Trump Email: ‘Sorry, That’s a Funny Sentence’

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes got a good laugh from a fundraising email from President Donald Trump ahead of Saturday’s military parade in Washington, D.C.

Ostensibly, the parade will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, though the event also falls on Trump’s 79th birthday. Costs are expected to run between $25 million and $45 million.

On Friday’s All In, Hayes mocked the spectacle as the stuff of dictators.

“Donald Trump is holding a North Korean-style military parade, Soviet-style military parade through the nation’s capital, something that we just don’t do as a country,” he said. “The last one we did was after the first Persian Gulf War, which was celebrating the end of a war. We don’t have that here. It just so happens to fall on his 79th birthday. He’s even fundraising from it, if you could believe it. Well, you can, of course.”

An image of the email in question appeared on screen, with the subject line, “Please help me before my military parade!”

As Hayes read the line, he burst out laughing.

“Sorry, that’s a funny sentence,” the host said. “‘My military parade.'”

He then pointed to some remarks from Trump this week in which he promised that protesters would be met with “very big force” and “very heavy force.”

“And of course, Donald Trump has already promised, quote ‘very heavy force’ against anyone who would choose to protest his special day,” Hayes said. “He didn’t direct this at rioters or looters or people that broke the law. You know, he said ‘protesters’ would be met with ‘very heavy force.'”

Thousands of “No Kings” events are planned on Saturday to protest the Trump administration. The parade and demonstrations come about a week after the president federalized 4,000 National Guardsmen and ordered the deployment of 700 Marines to Los Angeles to quell protests. On Friday, Reuters reported that Marines had detained one civilian before turning him over to Homeland Security officials.

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