Bastille Day parade
Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris
(July 14, 2017)
Introduction: Does this sound like anyone you know – like someone
who can’t get their way for anything just blaming someone else for their own
shortcomings?
Yep, my first
thought, too: Donald John Trump. Like his plans for a military parade to top
the one he saw in Paris in July 2017 now cancelled.
So, now we suppose
that Trump blames DOD for their cost estimate $80 million higher than his for
what “raining on his parade” as it were?
President Trump (on Friday, August 17) announced that he
has canceled a planned military parade this fall in the nation's capital
because of in his words, “[…] ridiculously high price tag given by DC officials.”
In his tweet (policy by tweet) he says: “The local politicians who run Washington, DC
(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.
Maybe we will do something next year in DC when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we
can buy some more jet fighters!”
My 2 cents: What a pitiful, spoiled rotten pathetic man who can’t
stop blaming others for his woes and faux pas gross management mistakes yet has
people around him and especially in this all GOP-run Congress scared shitless
of him. That may be the worst part: Congress not doing their sworn duty of
oversight of this man and his office.
The original
story follows.
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Trump's military parade is now
estimated to cost $92 million – $80 Million more than earlier estimates
• Trump's military
parade is estimated to cost $92 million, according to DOD officials with
firsthand knowledge of the assessment.
• An earlier estimate
pegged the cost at $12 million.
• The parade is
scheduled to take place in the nation's capital on November 10 and will feature
armored vehicles, aircraft flyovers and period uniforms.
My insert: November 10 BTW, is the official
birthday date of the Marine Corps: November 10, 1775 – yes older than the country.
Story and background from CNBC news
– Trump got his hair brain idea and he was inspired by the parade in France he
saw in the ceremony celebrating France's Bastille Day military parade in Paris
on July 14, 2017.
Then in September,
Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and recalled how much he
enjoyed watching their parade, and he said: “It was a tremendous day, and to a large extent because of what I
witnessed, we may do something like that on July 4 in Washington down
Pennsylvania Avenue. We're going to have to try to top it, but we have a lot of
planes going over and a lot of military might, and it was really a beautiful
thing to see, and representatives from different wars and different uniforms.”
My 2 cents: Yep,
Trump’s drive to fluff up his ego at any cost again is the driving force for this
just as it does with anything in his life, or so it seems.
But, nearly a $100
million parade just to “top France’s parade” just as he said is not all that
savvy. Simply, what a waste of $100 million that could go towards helping
families in need with health care or yes, even food assistance that he wants to
punish them about for getting as the GOP “free stuff.”
I hope DOD has the
final word and they say a resounding “no.”
We shall see – and thanks
for stopping
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