Trump's Military Birthday Parade Was a Gross Failure
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that dismal display was 45 million?
It’s a parade for a grifter, they went the extra mile and grifted the parade spending too.
Special thanks to our sponsor of the US Army - Coinbase!
this shit cost like $4k per attendee
It looks like toy tanks and plastic army men marching.
Apparently 'marching' was a stretch. It was closer to walking, maybe on purpose.
Gross as in big (failure) and gross as in disgusting.
Both
Trump, after they did all the "unimportant constitution" parts: "I thought we edited that out"
Cuz it was a graft. They just pocketed all the sponsorships and stuff.
Welcome to the parade sponsored by Carl's Jr
When I was a young boy my father took me to the McDonald's to see the covefe
What was it after tax?
A net failure
Drumpf, the entirety of the Republican party and their voters are all GROSS FAILURES...
Republicans: I know you are, but what am I?
DJ PopeKillah got the parade for free!
And his base will still support him.
Emphasis on gross
https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/physicists-create-worlds-smallest-violin/
It's literally the first line of the article: cost up to $45 million, was short on attendees, long on political speeches.
Remember to just agree with the .ml and .zip gang.. they’re just being fair and objective.
caring about a domain address is cringe
yeeeessssss, let the division flow through you
I think they didn't provide a source because there are no reliable numbers. Those may still come at a later date.
I did find these sources though. They suggest that the turnout was substantially lower than expected and that estimates of attendance numbers are hotly debated.
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/trump-military-parade-crowd-size-protests-s3pkrphr8
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-protests-military-parade
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2kqe5yv0yzt
Google is your friend.
Also if you’re actually into numbers and want to care about something where numbers matter: https://electiontruthalliance.org/ and https://smartelections.us/
It’s not as entertaining and more difficult to play oppositional keyboard warrior with, but numbers are numbers. You’re not a numbercist are you?
I know you're getting downvoted a lot, but I don't think you're a Trump supporter or arguing in bad faith. I know what you mean.
People on the left, like myself, were always going to call the parade a failure. It was always going to be a sad, pointless attempt at spectacle. By its very nature, it was a failure. In no world were we going to say, "yeah I hate the guy, but damn if he doesn't know how to throw a bitchin' parade."
On the flipside, Trump and Maga folks were always going to call it a success. Or maybe there are reports of angry red hat people who expected a better show and were disappointed. Unlikely, though.
On what terms do you define its success or failure? Yes, attendance is one. If they expected ten times as many people, then, as you say, it's a failure. You aren't wrong for asking for a source.
I think your original comment was less along the lines of, "how do we know it wasn't an amazing success, though?" and more like, "wasn't the parade exactly as expected?"
How much of the parade did you watch? I watched none. I think most of America will say they didn't even bother to turn on the tv, most probably forgot it was happening at all.
Compare that to the Macy's day parade. It was a failure. He wanted it to be a big deal, it absolutely was not a big deal. Failure.
You do realize how this just doesn’t follow logically right? I don’t think I’ve ever once watched the Macy’s day parade ever. I sure as hell don’t think that most Americans watch it. That doesn’t mean that the Macy’s day parade is a failure. The person you’re talking to is asking for any sort of source. Only one person in this thread has even bothered to discuss this properly with that person. The truth of the matter is that you need factual numbers to discuss this. You can’t go off of feelings or Twitter replies or comments in overwhelmingly democratic communities. You need an actual source with factual numbers. Until there is something like that then it’s pointless discussing whether the parade was a failure or not.
23 million people watch it last year. And it out performed all other entertainment specials.. Thus making the Macy’s parade the most successful.
Let me cut thru the fat and just explain why your argument is ridiculous. I'll put politics and jokes aside.
I love a battle semantics more than most. I once brought a $100 dictionary to my HOA pool to explain "dusk" to the security guard.
Let me explain why your argument is silly.
You want numbers to prove it was a failure, correct?
Okay. We will have them in a couple days when they are available. However in the meantime YOU need to define your parameters if you are going to argue. What exactly is a "failure" to you? How little viewing/attendance is the threshold for this argument? When is a parade a failure exactly?
If you want to argue what is or isn't a failed parade and you want proof... Fine, but we need your goal posts, we need to know you describe as a failed parade because numbers are just numbers. What's your metric?
I'm having trouble finding a video of that. Don't suppose you can share one?"military parade protest" finds protests about the parade rather than in it.
The only videos I can find of soldiers marching has them in normal-ass fatigues, shuffling like people ashamed of being there. Reeks of veiled cringe.
Rofl I read that it was supposed to have “historical uniforms” with all eras of the US military represented from pre America colonial times up until now. I’m not super into military stuff but I am super into history and I understand militaries play integral part of modern history and was a little bummed such an interesting idea was being wasted on someone so shitty not like, our 250th birthday or something more wholesome. Hilarious it’s just some dudes in fatigues and some squeaky tanks
Username sure checks out
Bait used to be believable SMH.
I thought that too. Trump got what he wanted, how’s that a failure?
Narcissists crave attention. 90% empty seats is basically a bitchslap.
Yeah literally nothing in the article to suggest that it was a failure. He screamed his propaganda, people were there for it and his sponsors got their word out.