Trump’s big parade
by digby
President Donald Trump wasn’t able to cut a deal for a grandiose Veterans Day military parade, but this year, he says he aims to start a new 4th of July tradition.
The only hitch? The “tradition” he says he wants to start in the nation’s capital already exists.Trump offered few concrete details Tuesday when he mused to reporters that it could take place in Washington and it could include a parade.“We’re thinking about doing, on the 4th of July or thereabouts, a parade, a ‘Salute to America’ parade. I guess it’d be really more of a gathering than a parade. Perhaps at the Lincoln Memorial. We’re looking at sites. But we’re thinking about doing something that would, perhaps, become a tradition,” Trump said. A spokesperson for the Interior Department told CNN: “Salute to America is a great idea. We are working diligently to present the best options to the White House.”
Fabulous! They’ll get right on that.
However:
Washington, of course, already hosts major 4th of July parade. Called America’s National Independence Day Parade, it goes through the heart of downtown Washington, consisting “of invited bands, fife and drum corps, floats, military and specialty units, giant balloons, equestrian, drill teams, VIP’s, national dignitaries and celebrity participants,” according to the parade’s website. Other smaller parades take place across Washington’s neighborhoods.
It’s also unclear exactly how the “Salute to America” event would work alongside — or in place of? — Washington’s annually televised Fourth of July concert and fireworks near the Capitol building.
This is his new thing. Just call something that already exists by a new name and tell all his gullible rubes that he fulfilled one of his promises.
I guess that’s better than actually doing what he promised.
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