Donald Trump was unhappy with his sparsely attended military parade over the weekend and blamed it on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, biographer Michael Wolff revealed.
Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a “menacing” show of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday—but got a “festive” parade instead.
“He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
He’s not happy they smiled and waved at the people they signed away their lives to protect.
This is how Trump treats the US Army soldiers who were forced to march in front of Trump for a day that was supposed to celebrate them and their accomplishments.
Thank you to the US Army for trying to pit something together that would be fun for US citizens. If it weren’t for Trump smearing his shit all over everything I’m sure plenty more would have turned out to show their support as real Americans celebrating real patriots rather than the fascists so many US soldiers have died fighting against.
Didn’t see much of it but the uniforms and equipment from every era was hella cool. They actually made it about army history, not a goose-stepping show of force.
Frankly, it’s just about the best way the Army could have handled this whole thing.
Always remember: the vast majority of the US Army is very, very good at malicious compliance. I’m pretty sure the E4 mafia grants you an unofficial Malicious Compliance MOS once you make that rank.
Oh dang, I might have to go watch it now XD
Drumpf isn’t a fan of history, or learning.
I mean some of them might actually believe that. But Trump is not wrong here. They signed away their lives to protect Billionaires and their property. There is a reason as things get worse and worse that the police and military budget gets bigger and bigger. Theyre the class traitors that protect the wealthy from both domestic and foreign threats. With the military now being turned inward as well to bring a taste of American foreign policy to its own citizens that dare to resist.
I can only speak for myself, the vast majority of the people I served with, and my family and friends who are currently active duty.
I have never met a single person I believed signed up to “Protect billionaires and their property”.
How they may be used by the current administration has nothing to do with their personal motivations.
Yes. Because you’re believing a lie. Our military is used to secure the interest of the wealthy. I don’t see how anyone could think otherwise at this point.
You can lie to yourself and project your individual ideas and morals onto your role in the military. That’s a way to feel good I guess. But that doesn’t matter when the material goals of the military are to cause instability in regions we want to exploit for resources and control.
Everyone is always against the past crimes of the military. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. But only decades after the fact.
It’s difficult to standup against it now as we support Israel in its aggression against Iran.
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Trump Mobile would have been a better sponsor
They won’t be able to afford advertising if they have as many customers as turned up for this ridiculous birthday parade. Unless Putin and people like that become customers again.
If not, the US president will be their only advertising medium - that guy won’t stoop too low.
And only $46 million down the drain
But hey, they’ll just steal more money from programs that actually help people to recoup the money. All good. /s
What’s that really though - golf trip security and accommodation costs alone for Trump in just his second term thus far have already cost around that. For which he insists the secret service and other support staff use his own golf courses and hotels so that he literally gets paid handsomly to golf & stay at his own resorts (breaking the emoluments clause of the Constitution in the process).
At least none of that $46mil went to Trump & co and the whole affair embarrassed him by the poor turnout and mediocre parade. Money well spent it was not, but at least he hated it.
He also systematically overcharges for Secret Service accomodations as well, including golf cart rentals for following him around.
He actually makes profit on his security detail. Welcome to the United States of Ferengenar.
It’s massively wasteful and corrupt spending, is what it is.
If we took this combined ~80mil and thoughtfully spent it on affordable housing, we could quite possibly eliminate homelessness in the US. This would have a profound impact on people’s perceived quality of life in this country, as well as put in motion economic gains from the ground up. It could have been a massive W across the board, aka good leadership and responsible stewardship.
"He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
The Disaster in Chief doesn’t even know what the fuck “hamming it up” means. 🤦♂️
He wanted to intimidate people with it. He wanted the type of military parades they do in dictatorships.
Precisely this. He didn’t want a happy birthday parade, he wanted an “all this equipment can be used to kill you, no matter who or where” parade. He truly believes that all the military can and should be good for is death and misery and harming the people he thinks need to hurt. In his brain, they’re his personal faceless, nameless drones to inflict violence. He’s been using ICE for this, but ICE doesn’t make him look like his cool dictator friends in the way that rolling a column of Abrams down Mulholland Drive would.
He also didn’t want a “250th anniversary of the Army” parade, which is what this always was and he tried to hijack.
Trying to go through, like, the history of the army.
Amazing, came to the comments to see if anyone pointed this out and it’s not even a parent comment.
I find this scary not funny.
Dictators always blame others for their failings.
But hegseth is a failure too.
Take it easy in the admins token DUI hire
I don’t think he has many tokens — at least not from AA.
He isn’t top shelf, but his liquor is…
“we aren’t kings”
Cries when parade isn’t dictator-y enough.
HAHAHAHAHA what a fucking toddler. Did they not have enough plain cheese pizza with ketchup for your bday party, you pathetic attention-hungry piece of shit
that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.
If he didn’t want soldiers that were excited to be there, then why did he have them screened for political association to make sure they were his supporters?
Wait he did that? Wtf
In addition to screening for BMI, yes.
Did he want a high BMI or a low BMI?
And the best he could find was a bunch of middle-aged guys that looked like they were cosplaying as soldiers who have never gone through so much as aa day of basic training?
This is what you get when your hiring criteria is who is the best ass kisser.
DEI. Dumb (and) extra idiotic.
I think he somehow associates their behavior with a lack of discipline. He expected coordinated … 🪿 stepping and unwavering devotion to their CiC who has zero respect for them or something? I can’t wrap my head around whatever circles of logic he tries to use
I’m going to say I 100% agree with you. The lunatic wants North Korean style marches and is angry that’s not happening.
But I also want to say, what clips I’ve seen holy crap their marching was abysmal, like I’ve seen Civil Air Patrol flights with better marching. I’m not military so I can only talk so much, when listening to vets, their comments are along the lines of the people in the parade basically doing a shitty job because “Mandatory Fun Day” as apparently it’s called.
Frankly I think that’s funny myself.
Their marching was poor because there is almost no practical reason why anyone in today’s Army should ever need to march. The vast majority of service people do very little marching after basic training.
Awwww… no one showed up to wittle Donnie’s birthday party.
I couldn’t go. I have bone spurs
I wonder what Kim Jong Un’s reaction was when he saw the photos of Trumps dinky little parade
Haha Dinky.
He’s trying to be a dictator damn it! Why won’t anyone take him seriously? Waaaaah
Because he’s a lollipop head, bitch and nobody is scared of him
Guess he’ll be trying to outlaw smiling and looking happy now
Don’t worry, his policies will stop everyone smiling.
