Trump's military parade expected to cost a cool $100 million

[Swordsmyth]

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he would attend a November celebration in Paris marking the end of World War I, hours after a military parade planned for the same time in Washington was postponed over soaring costs.Trump said he had in fact canceled that event, blaming local politicians for charging a "ridiculously high" price and vowing to "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."


"The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it," Trump said Friday.
"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!" he added.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-say...004334345.html

[kcchiefs6465]

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he would attend a November celebration in Paris marking the end of World War I, hours after a military parade planned for the same time in Washington was postponed over soaring costs.Trump said he had in fact canceled that event, blaming local politicians for charging a "ridiculously high" price and vowing to "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."


"The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it," Trump said Friday.
"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!" he added.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-say...004334345.html

What would you say is a reasonable price for a military parade, Swordsmyth?

20 million?

[Swordsmyth]

What would you say is a reasonable price for a military parade, Swordsmyth?

20 million?

I lack the necessary information but I would think you could do a pretty good parade for less than that.

[Zippyjuan]

What would you say is a reasonable price for a military parade, Swordsmyth?

20 million?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...st/1017161002/

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says District's parade cost estimates lower than Trump's claims

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump blamed the Washington, D.C., government Friday for his decision to cancel a proposed military parade – though Washington officials denied his claim and many federal agencies also raised concerns about the cost and logistics.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday via Twitter that the District's cost estimate was only $21.6 million, closer to the administration's $12 million projection from February. On Thursday, Pentagon officials told CNN the actual costs would be $92 million, or $80 million more than the original estimate.

"The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it," Trump tweeted. "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!"

Trump also announced he would attend a smaller parade already scheduled for Joint Base Andrews, as well as a Nov. 11 parade in Paris to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.

"Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN," Trump tweeted. "Now we can buy some more jet fighters!"

Bowser said the proposed parade carried significant concerns for taxpayers, and she mocked Trump for his complaints.

"Yup, I’m Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, the local politician who finally got thru to the reality star in the White House with the realities ($21.6M) of parades/events/demonstrations in Trump America (sad)," she said in a sub-tweet.

[kcchiefs6465]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...st/1017161002/

Right. Yet posted without comment.

Let me ask you then, Zippy.

What is a reasonable cost of a military parade?

[Aratus]

Victory?

[Aratus]

Rand Paul back in February when the parade idea was getting attention:

If there is no clear and obvious victory...

[Aratus]

Why do a parade? As veterans suffer...

[kcchiefs6465]

Why do a parade? As veterans suffer...

The quick and simple answer is that they do not care about veterans and their suffering.

Also, it is not their money.

[Swordsmyth]

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that cost wasn’t the only factor in the cancelation of the military parade President Donald Trump wanted in Washington later this year.
“If the parade had been canceled for purely fiscal reasons, I imagine I would have been in the room when that decision was made and I wasn’t, so my guess is there were other contributing factors,” Mulvaney said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“I like the mayor ― she seems like a nice lady ― but face it, this is a city that voted probably, I don’t know, 70 [or] 80 percent against the president,” he said. “So to think that maybe the city council of Washington, D.C., is not trying to help the president accomplish what he wants to accomplish shouldn’t be news to anybody.”
Mulvaney underestimated how badly Trump lost the District of Columbia in the 2016 election ― Hillary Clinton carried it with about 91 percent of the vote.
Representatives for the White House and Washington’s city council did not immediately respond to requests for comment.



More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mick-mulv...162648657.html

[Aratus]

On 11/11 of 1918 a treaty was signed that ended World War 1.
On 11/11 of 1938 violence sadly erupted all over the Third Reich.
Until very recently large public memorials to our WW2 veterans
and soldiers existed only at the state level, rather than in D.C
due to the way the Nazis had a fetish about parades, uniforms,
conformity and control. The New Left is indulging in hyperbole
when thinking DJT is perhaps an esoteric ideological "clone" of
the Nazi superstate dictator, however the acts of violence that
this despot triggered hold an odium even to this very hour. The
Treaty of Versailles has a legacy that is like a two-edged sword.

[RonZeplin]

We would save a lot of Million$ by bringing the troops home, cutting off all foreign aid, and doubling the size of the parade.

#winning

[Swordsmyth]

We would save a lot of Million$ by bringing the troops home, cutting off all foreign aid, and doubling the size of the parade.

#winning

Rand has said this and hopefully Trump will listen.

[Danke]

Blarg, blarg, blarg.

This intellectually stimulating conversation is the reason I keep coming here.

....

[Suzanimal]

"We" can't afford a parade.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/