The Army is not with him
Donald Trump is a p@ssy grabber. He learned when he was a phony TV tycoon that as a celebrity he could get away with just about anything. Since his return to the Oval Office, Trump and men like Elon Musk, Russ Vought, and shadow president Stephen Miller have run amuck in Washington, D.C. grabbing federal p@ssies with reckless abandon. Trump’s entire party has calloused crotches from how tightly he’s grabbed theirs since 2016. It’s a wonder that the entire Republican caucus doesn’t walk bent over.
The wannabe dictator thought he could do the same with the U.S. military. Trump has been enamored of having a military parade since watching France’s Bastille Day celebration in 2017. He wanted one like his love interest, Kim Jong Un, gets. It’s what Supreme Leaders do.
When Trump tried to arrange a North Korea-style display of military might in his first term, James Mattis, then Trump’s secretary of defense, balked. Mattis claimed in his book that he’d “rather swallow acid” than see his troops so used. Trump 2.0’s Weekend SecDef Pete Hegseth has no such reservations. But it appears his troops do.
Anyone who’s seen clips from Trump’s birthday parade on Saturday noticed right away that the soldiers involved did not seem to have their hearts in performing in Trump’s circus.
Like this gentleman:
This veteran noticed too:
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And this one and for comparison:
Trump once lived for good ratings. He’s got to be disapppointed with these. Assuming aides let him see them.
The Irish Times reports:
A veteran added: “I’ve marched in more military parades than I even care to remember. Probably watched dozens more as a spectator.
“And this is easily the worst and sloppiest marching I’ve ever witnessed at a formal military parade. It feels like a big “f— you” to Trump from the soldiers.”
A fourth user heard several comments from Army veterans, and they surmised: “After engaging with US Army veterans in the comments, I think I might have to issue a correction here. These guys do/should know how to march and could have if they wanted to. They probably just didn’t care about this parade at all and put in zero effort.”
Charlotte Clymer, an activist, DC-based writer and Army veteran, commented on her Substack that the limp performance was not a protest against fascism so much as troops responding to “being treated like props for the benefit of an egomaniacal toddler.”
I think this is just because they were treated very poorly and they didn’t care. I think the soldiers who were misstepping during the parade — there were a lot of them — were just tired, annoyed, probably to some extent angry, and they just did not give enough of a shit to march to a high standard of excellence.
“Everyone is aware that this parade was done in service of Donald Trump — even the soldiers who likely voted for him know it was done in service to his ego. And I don’t know about you, but I would never want to participate in the parade so that a lone individual could feel good about themselves,” Clymer told BuzzFeed.
If 5 million Americans taking to the nation’s streets on Saturday to protest this clown did not lift your spirits amidst the Trump chaos, be comforted that 6,000 troops voted with their feet on Saturday to tell President Bone Spurs where he can stick any plans for deploying them to enforce martial law.
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