Trump Mocked After Cancelling Military Parade: Plan ‘Substitute Parade’ For Everyone With ‘Bone Spurs’
President Donald Trump officially announced the cancellations of plans to host a military parade in Washington, D.C., as the $92 million cost estimate was too high — and Twitter was quick to mock him for even dreaming up the outlandish proposition.
“The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up! I will instead attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date, & go to the Paris parade, celebrating the end of the War, on November 11th,” Trump wrote. “Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we can buy some more jet fighters!”
The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up! I will instead…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
….attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date, & go to the Paris parade, celebrating the end of the War, on November 11th. Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we can buy some more jet fighters!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
The $92 million number came from a CNBC report released yesterday, which said the Pentagon required $50 million to fund the parade, while Homeland Security required $42 million.
As for Trump’s desire for parades, they began last year after he visited France to meet with Emmanuel Macron and became enamored with the country’s military festivities.
“Because of what I witnessed, we may do something like that on July 4th in Washington down Pennsylvania [Avenue],” Trump tweeted last year. “We’re thinking … of having a really great parade, to show our military strength.”
Check out a few of the reactions from pundits, writers, and journalists mocking or criticizing Trump after cancelling his long sought-after parade:
The Pentagon has offered to organize a substitute parade: They want to invite everyone alive who got a military deferment for bone spurs to march up Pennsylvania Ave. The proposal would save millions of dollars, wouldn’t tear up the road and would allow @realDonaldTrump to march.
— Rick Tyler (@rickwtyler) August 17, 2018
? $50M of the $92M estimate was for the Pentagon’s own costs, the rest for other agencies largely for security costs. Not sure how “local politicians” are responsible for the price tag here https://t.co/tPXdK5hRjW
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) August 17, 2018
For $92M? A pair of F-16s or about 3/4 of an F-35, tops pic.twitter.com/LAbyJhrOYf
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) August 17, 2018
The president says he will fly to Paris to satisfy his desire to watch a parade. pic.twitter.com/5RkV2Y0D56
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 17, 2018
“I cancelled it.”
Last night we were told by the Defense Department that it was postponed https://t.co/LojMbgMuiy
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) August 17, 2018
doesn’t know what Obamacare does but has his parade schedule for the next year mapped out pic.twitter.com/j93P2CCYZR
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) August 17, 2018
“Now we can buy some more jet fighters!” pic.twitter.com/3ujBldzH1R
— jordan (@JordanUhl) August 17, 2018
No surprise he’s blaming minorities… https://t.co/A0YO8zI9fH
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) August 17, 2018
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