Twin celebrations of the Army’s 250th anniversary and the president’s birthday will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington.
Twin celebrations of Donald Trump’s birthday and the Army’s 250th anniversary will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington in a celebration that will cost $25 million to $45 million, U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
U.S. military service branches take pride in their history and anniversary celebrations, called birthdays, across the United States and on bases around the world.
The U.S. Army had long been planning to move troops and equipment to the National Mall in Washington on June 14 as part of its anniversary celebration. Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.
Two U.S. officials told Reuters, on condition of anonymity, the eventual cost could be as high as $45 million. One of them said the cost included several million dollars more than it would have without a parade.
We pay for the military anyway so that’s not really an extra cost. They get paid regardless of what they are doing.
This is in addition to the cost of having the military.
If you don’t have a parade you don’t have to fix streets or move equipments, etc
Might as well show off for the dictator and destroy some roads.
And this will fix the economy and end the war in Ukraine and Gaza how?
In reality we all know it wont do shit.
In Trump’s mind it will show the world what a glorious and powerful leader he is, and everyone will just do what he demands.
Sadly yes.
We’ll see the plan isn’t to end any wars, it’s to profit off of them. And when they said they were going to fix the economy, they meant they were going to make money off the U.S. populous. Americans as a whole have lost money since they came in, but they have made a lot of money themselves.
I don’t know how common this sentiment is but I see a major military parade on US soil as an embarrassment. No uninvited foreign troops have set foot in the contiguous US since the Mexican American War ended in 1848. There hasn’t been a military battle in the contiguous US since Wounded Knee in 1890, inasmuch as Wounded Knee was a battle. Part of the privileges that Americans enjoy is that that level of conflict happens elsewhere. Large displays of military power at home deminish us.
All military parades are ridiculously embarrassing.
I remember when they used to air the annual Scottish tattoo on tv.
I mean, it’s probably fun for anyone who participates or has a hard on for bagpipes, but for the rest of the world, it’s a ridiculous event where an audience shows up to watch men in uniform walk in beat and show their rifles in sync. It’s like square dancing, but only for men, and longer guns.
Good thing that I can switch channels, so I can watch syncronized swimming from the Olympics instead. I like their uniforms better.
Historically speaking, USSR / Russia, China, and NK have loved to talk up the capabilities of their kit, and these parades were a big part of that. They have frequently failed to deliver on all of their promised capabilities.
In the United States we have done the opposite. We don’t talk about our latest gen aircraft programs; we hide them out in the desert. When we do talk we remain cagey about what we have for years and decades, until long after we’ve started selling it to allies.
I understand that this parade will not show off our real capabilities (not at 25 tanks anyway), but I am saddened that the man feels like he needs to stoop to the level of the adversaries we’ve held for so long.
He’s mad that Putin and el-Sisi both got cool military parades. I remember him wanting to do this in his first term.
You know….
There are roughly 7 million people on SSDI. A good chunk of those who of us on SSDI are at poverty level or less.
There are roughly 18 million veterans. Many of them have been at poverty level or less.
You could give 25 million people who are either veterans or disabled a million dollars tax-free and no strings attached and you would improve their quality of life drastically.
But, no, the Orange King needs his ego soothed and inflated by having a fucking parade on his birthday. Absolutely disgusting and I really hope there will be a major protest at the same time. I might use the meager finances I have and take a trip to D.C. for that.
The irony? Some of those men and women from the military in that parade will be left to rot once their service is over.
You could give 25 million people who are either veterans or disabled a million dollars…
Not to rain on your parade (I think the idea of a military parade is patiently wasteful and dumb, meanwhile we don’t do enough as a nation to care for veterans and disabled people), but that would be a lot more than $45 million. More like $25 trillion… or 25,000x $1 billion… or 25,000,000x $1 million.
Good grief I can’t do math apparently. Thank you for correcting me.
I assume they’re wanting to do it for the U.S.’s LAST birthday?
Hopefully for Trump’s
as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington
I hope they shred Pennsylvania Ave. to smithereens… 🤡 🖕
I don’t think they will do much if they go in a straight line. If they start doing donuts then it would probably wreck some shit.
When the Tao is present in the universe,
The horses haul manure.
When the Tao is absent from the universe,
War horses are bred outside the city.The cost of the charade, eh parade:
As much as I want to bash trump, understand that this parade would have happened regardless of who is president and when their birthday is.
No other US President has had a military parade ON THEIR BIRTHDAY. Don’t defend the cantaloupe. He’s a tinpot dictator.
As much as I want to bash trump, understand that this parade would have happened regardless of who is president and when their birthday is.
Others have already pointed out you’re wrong, but I was just curious how wrong. So I went looking. Any searches within the last year are polluted with results talking about this trump parade, so I set the search first to prior to 2024 which revealed something I had entirely forgotten. tRUMP TRIED THIS CRAP BEFORE in 2018 AND WAS SHOT DOWN ON COSTS:
So setting the search criteria PRIOR to even the first trump presidency in 2015 gives us this:
So it is by no means common to have military equipment rolling down Pennsylvania avenue and even that much smaller one cost $12m in 1991 dollars ($28,305,381.17 in 2025 dollars).
Thanks for the analysis! Looks like the 250th anniversary will be the party line for MAGAts and such. I was sure the anniversary was just an excuse but this is even more black and white.
Makes you feel like you’re taking crazy pills watching everyone accept insanity. Grab a Republican from twenty years ago and tell them the president is holding a military parade and they’d want to impeach him.
I see. I was mistaken. Very mistaken. I thought that there was going to be a parade or event anyways because it was a 250 year thing.
Please tell me you don’t live in the US.
Alright. I don’t live in the US.
Even the article says there would not be a parade if it wasn’t for trump. It’s right there in the post body.
Come on man.
Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.
According to the article, the parade part is specifically for Trump
I think the scale here is more what’s up for debate.
It’s very likely Army would have done something to commemorate the anniversary.
But a parade with 45 tanks? Probably not, the last time the Army did a parade was in 91.
There wasn’t even one was for the 200th anniversary.
Fair enough, my mistake
Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday
Boy howdy this is the type of claim that is easily researched. Even without the birthday these displays are not a common occurrence.
You understand that this is an admission that the US is just flat out a fascist country, right? A fascist democracy is still a fascist country.
