Recently-turned patriot Donald Trump loves the military, and he announced last week that he wants to throw a giant military parade like they have in France each year. Question: Who’d they ever beat?
The Pentagon, which has a number of serious things to work on (like ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, black ops in Africa and elsewhere, and a prospective nuclear war with North Korea), and which has been crying poor mouth lately (“we need another $500 billion added to the budget!)…is said to be preparing plans for Trump’s parade.
It is a curious thing to see Donald Trump all excited over things military. This is a guy who dodged the draft back in the day…getting a doctor’s excuse for bogus “bone spurs” to avoid serving his country.
What’s really curious is that those painful, crippling heel spurs weren’t a problem while Trump was a student at the New York Military Academy, while he was a college student at Wharton Business School, and at any time later in his life.
The mysterious bones spurs occurred quickly, almost miraculously, in time to qualify young Trump for his 5th, and final, draft deferment. And, then, magically, they disappeared.
Some people, cynics like me, perhaps, might call young Trump’s behavior “treasonous”, to use one of the President’s favorite words. (Note: The Prez used that word to describe the Democrats sitting on their hands at his State of the Union speech. They were “traitors” for not clapping!)
Here’s Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, on the right, during one of President Obama’s State of the Union addresses:
(If we do have Trump’s big parade, everybody must attend and clap loudly. Otherwise, you might end up at Guantanamo.)
Oh, BTW, here’s President Trump’s wife Melania during his State of the Union Speech:
One might say that an otherwise healthy guy, who fakes a medical condition to avoid military service in a time of war, has committed treason. Just sayin’
However, more importantly (?) the President is in favor of expensive, patriotic, military parades…that serve no purpose except to gratify his immense ego.
Senator Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Senator from Illinois, isn’t one to shy away from calling a spade a spade: she publicly calls the President “Cadet Bone Spurs” at every opportunity, making fun of his cowardice as a young graduate of a military school. Senator Duckworth is no coward, by the way; she’s an Army veteran who lost both legs serving in Iraq.
Trump’s grand military parade: “It’s a waste of resources,” she said Wednesday in a telephone interview from Washington. “Why would we spend hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars to put on a parade like this when we have troops who are in harm’s way right now? Who don’t have everything that they need to execute their mission?”
That’s a pretty good question, that last one.
And, why does America, which is acknowledged (by everyone) to have the strongest military in the world, need to thump its chest about its superiority? We’ve never done this type of thing before, except maybe after winning a World War or two. We were grown-ups then. Now…?
What military victories have we won lately? Actually, I don’t know of any war that the United States has “won” in recent memory. Korea? A stalemate. Vietnam? Got our hat handed to us. Granada? Are you kidding!
America has been bogged down in the Middle East tar pit for about twenty years now…with no end in sight. Opium production has actually increased, and there are more terrorist atrocities now than before. There doesn’t even appear to be a PLAN for “victory”, whatever that would mean in that part of the world!
Maybe President Trump is planning to declare, just before his big parade, “Mission Accomplished!” like George W. Bush did, prematurely, to his lasting chagrin.
Maybe Trump will re-celebrate his convincing victory over Hillary Clinton…certainly grounds for a Yuge military parade. No matter the pretext, our President is determined to see himself, on TV, atop a bandstand, lording over His Troops, as the impressive Commander-in-Chief that he knows he is. (That is, if his bone spurs will allow him to stand that long.)
One can only wonder what goes on in that narcissistic mind of his. He must sit around for hours (when he should be working!) dreaming up goofy and absurd ideas that will keep him on Page One of the newspapers, the most talked-about guy on cable news, and the most tweeted-about Tweeter on earth. Usually, he just says something dumb, offensive, or vulgar…and that’s sufficient. “Did you hear what that dumbass Trump said yesterday?!”
A parade, though. That would be “bigly” impressive, for sure; just what an egomaniac needs. And, we can be sure, if Donald Trump has any say in it, the extravaganza will be “Yuuuuuuuge”, “the biggest”, “the shiniest”, “the most patriotic”, etc….of all time. And, probably, the most expensive. After all, the military just got a $500 billion infusion of badly needed funds.
Or, more likely, it will be the most ridiculed military parade in American history; another black eye for our idiot President.
The proposed parade is a joke, just like super-patriot Cadet Bone Spurs.
The New Yorker magazine’s Andy Borowitz today reported the following fake news: “The Pentagon has turned down Donald J. Trump’s request for a grand military parade in Washington, D.C., citing a sudden outbreak of bone spurs that would prevent men and women in uniform from participating.”
Yeah, it’s fake, but can you imagine how our military folks really feel about this abomination-in-the-making? The United States doesn’t do military parades…it’s unbecoming. Tin pot dictators like them; Communists do this sort of thing. Then, again, Trump likes the Russians…
A gaudy parade would be akin to some lounge lizard brandishing a huge “flash roll” of cash to impress the ladies; some Saudi prince showing off his solid gold toilet; a heavily-muscled Adonis bullying a 115-pound weakling; or, a young, rich guy bragging on TV about being so famous that he can “grab women by the pussy”. What do these things have in common? They’re cases of chest-thumping.
That’s not something that we do, as the United States of America. We’re supposed to “Walk Softly, But Carry a Big Stick”. That’s been our mode of operation for a hundred years, ever since we became a world power. We don’t go out of our way to seek trouble, but…mess with us at your own peril, Sir.
Donald Trump is a different sort of cat; he’s certainly no Teddy Roosevelt. Since he’s been in office (only one year!), he’s personally threatened North Korea with a nuclear war and Venezuela with an invasion. He’s surrounded himself with military men (in the civilian White House), and promoted an obscene increase in the military budget. And, for reasons known only to himself, alienated himself (and the U.S.) from long-time military allies like Britain, Germany, Australia, and France, and broken agreements with long-standing trade partners. What the Hell…go big or go home!
Maybe that’s his “Mission Accomplished!”…getting virtually every nation in the world to hate and fear the United States.
A good reason for a parade, I guess.
