Mile-Long Train Of Tanks Arrives For Trump’s Parade

USA Today reports:

The stage is being set – literally – for the military parade June 14 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army that coincides with Trump’s birthday. Construction workers are erecting a stage along Constitution Avenue near the White House.

Steel plates have been embedded in the asphalt to protect roads from 140,000-pound tanks. And the tanks themselves – and other military vehicles – have begun arriving by train. The parade will include about 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles and 50 aircraft, according to the Army.

Trump told NBC News the cost – budgeted at $30 million and potentially rising to $45 million – is “peanuts” compared to celebrating “the greatest military in the world.”

Read the full article. Some have placed the cost of the parade at double the estimate provided by the Trump administration. Yesterday Axios reported that the parade will include rocket launchers and (presumably non-nuclear) missiles.