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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(124,570 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:12 PM Yesterday

Sparse Attendance, Confusion and Disorganization: Dismal Scenes From Trump's Military Parade

Donald Trump threw a military parade in honor of the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary on Saturday, June 14 (a date that happens to be the president’s birthday) to the tune of $25 to $45 million. But unfortunately for Trump, photos and videos from the big day show sparse attendance and a lack of organization from top to bottom.




50 Thirteen founder Doug Landry shared a series of tweets that documented many issues with the parade Saturday. Landry described the event as “legitimately the worst executed mass attendance event I’ve ever seen” before sharing photos of a sparsely populated Washington Mall, the single checkpoint to which approximately 15,000 people were sent, maps that failed to offer clear direction, dozens of empty checkpoints, and empty VIP bleachers.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jmte4w4x7ukciit6lci6ziau/post/3lrm4ji62jk2b

Those scenes were replicated by HuffPost deputy editor Phil Lewis, who shared his own photos on BlueSky.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vocg5apjrlm7dfptvy6qbrfy/post/3lrlyroeylc2q

YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen slammed the event on the same platform.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sparse-attendance-confusion-disorganization-dismal-203458152.html
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Sparse Attendance, Confusion and Disorganization: Dismal Scenes From Trump's Military Parade (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday OP
What an embarrassment! Klarkashton Yesterday #1
Trump's Fire Festival lame54 Yesterday #2
Best shot is of Trump above the toilets. Passages Yesterday #3
A disgusting waste of time and money for TSF's birthday, masquerading as the Army's birthday. brush Yesterday #4

Klarkashton

(3,587 posts)
1. What an embarrassment!
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:38 PM
Yesterday

This has been compared to NK and Russia and there is no comparison. Those countries don't try to fob off a pathetic show of a bunch of guys in worn out camouflage that march like Boy Scouts.
The world was watching that stupid shit show.

brush

(60,259 posts)
4. A disgusting waste of time and money for TSF's birthday, masquerading as the Army's birthday.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:15 PM
Yesterday

The US Army does not do shit like that. TSF wanted it for self-gratification.

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