Trump's military parade will take 'many days' to clean up, says D.C. mayor

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Monday 16 June 2025 19:36 EDT


Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has said there’s so far no reported damage to the city's roads following Donald Trump's military parade — but the cleanup will take "many days" yet.

"We expect for them to clean up over several days," Bowser told reporters at a press conference on Monday, referring to the Army Corps of Engineers — which is handling the aftermath. “When I say clean up, I mean move all of their equipment and fencing and jersey barriers. It will take many days, as I understand it."

Roughly 7,000 soldiers, 128 tanks, 34 horses, and a pack of dog-like robots paraded down the National Mall on Saturday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Army — which just so happened to coincide with Trump's 79th birthday.

But the sparse crowds lining the parade route were dwarfed by the estimated four million people who turned out across the country for "No Kings" protests against Trump's attempted centralization of power.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-military-parade-cleanup-dc-b2771181.html

[BoRaGard]

1. "Yah, send the bill to U.S. taxpayers, the suckers and losers." - Birthdayboy Krasnov (R-Felon)

[twodogsbarking]

2. FAIL!

[SergeStorms]

3. Do you realize how long it takes......

to clean up all the chicken shit from Trump's viewing box? He and his family alone must have dropped metric tonnes of it, not to mention his favorite sycophants's droppings.
It could take years!

[travelingthrulife]

4. You should have said "No".

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The "District" is essentially run by Congress

and Congress has already put the city in a $1 billion hole by not authorizing funding that was due. This is why they have been trying to become a "state" (at least the "non-federal" portions of the city).

[Canada Kid]

5. BIG CLEANUP!

It will take days to clean up this mess...but it will take years to clean up the disaster we now are all facing!

[republianmushroom]

7. It (trumps military parade) should never be forgotten.

[Bayard]

8. I hadn't heard about the robot dogs

That sounds like an intimidation tactic. Do they have teeth, or just look scary?

The cleanup expense was probably a miniscule item in the $45M budget.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I hadn't either

although I remember seeing videos last year, of at least one at Mar-a-Lago -

I think there were threads here about it where people (like me) remarked that someone could just knock it over.

[EarthFirst]

11. " dwarfed by the estimated four million people who turned out across the country for "No Kings" protests"

Four million?

Where is this grossly undercounted figure coming from?

[jls4561]

12. Another Democrat obliged to clean up MAGA messes.