Axios reports:
Army officials are preparing to display rocket launchers and missiles along with more than a hundred military aircraft and vehicles next weekend at the D.C. parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary, Axios has learned.
President Trump has envisioned the June 14 parade — which is scheduled on his 79th birthday — as a show of U.S. military might.
Zoom in: Such a display of military equipment is rare in the United States, and critics of the event have expressed concerns about that imagery as well as the damage that heavy military vehicles could pose to the city’s streets.
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Trump wants 6,600 Troops, 50 helicopters, and millions of your tax dollars for a birthday parade.
Not to honor service, not for national defense—just to feed the ego of a wannabe dictator.
Pure authoritarian cosplay.
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