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Trump kicks off massive military parade across National Mall (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 1 month ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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A parade in Washington, D.C., commemorating the 250th anniversary of the armed services and coinciding with the birthday of President Donald Trump, kicked off Saturday with a grand showing of the military's power throughout the National Mall.

Eighty-four military vehicles, including 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 marching soldiers and other military presentations, were all on tap for the celebration, which also happened to fall on Trump's 79th birthday.

ABC News observed some people in the crowd wearing MAGA hats and others burst into singing "Happy Birthday," as the parade was about to begin. The parade started a half hour early -- at 6 p.m. -- due to weather.

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[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also happened to....there's a phrase doing some heavy fucking lifting

[–] LogicalFallacy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

The national media is lost

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Incidentally, in 1981, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated by his military parade, on live TV worldwide.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

I'm kinda bummed something didn't happen to him today.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Pathetic little “man”

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

ABC didn't report the pathetically tiny crowd. More bigly tiny than Dear Leader's little T. rex hands.

[–] kayky@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago

How about we make the military do something useful?