Price tag for Trump's military parade could reach $45 million
Source: Washington Post
A massive military parade planned in Washington next month will cost an estimated $25 million to $45 million and will involve dozens of war planes, hundreds of Army vehicles and thousands of soldiers from across the country sleeping in downtown government office buildings, an Army spokesperson said Thursday.
The parade, to commemorate the U.S. Armys 250th anniversary, will be held June 14, the same day as President Donald Trumps 79th birthday, and will include representation from all 10 active military divisions, said Army spokesman Steve Warren.
The parades overlap with Trumps birthday has prompted ire, especially at a time when his overhaul of the federal government includes slashing the Department of Veterans Affairs. The president has long mused about soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the streets of the capital and aircraft roaring overhead. Protest plans are also underway.
About 3,000 service members will be housed on unused floors of a General Services Administration building and 2,000 in a Department of Agriculture building, Warren said. Most participating service members will arrive a couple of days before the parade, he said, and leave June 16.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/15/trump-military-parade-soldiers-sleep-office-buildings/
Complete waste of money at any time, but especially when the president is a draft-dodging dictator-fellating treasonous crook.

exboyfil
(18,225 posts)for a year.
Bayard
(25,244 posts)Cutting people's jobs and necessities everywhere, so he can play Army. Doesn't Congress have to fund this?
If I remember right, when he wanted to do this the first time experts said the roadways wouldn't hold up to tank traffic.
Traildogbob
(11,225 posts)We are gonna stuff the budget bank with 900 billion in Medicaid savings. 45 Million, chump change for such a Patriotic event to pull AmurKKKa back together as one nation, under God with
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ah for Fucks sake! We are over!!!
More God blessing us, he loves his primary favorite peeps.
White folks, like him.
I can hear Lee Greenwood coming from my toaster 24/7. Wear my damn flag at? I hid it after J6. Time to fly it again a unite and bow.
Norrrm
(1,659 posts)
Pas-de-Calais
(10,108 posts)Lightening, thunder & torrential rains that day
slightlv
(5,568 posts)OKIsItJustMe
(21,244 posts)EarthFirst
(3,668 posts)This would be a opportune time to demonstrate that ability
FakeNoose
(37,454 posts)Back then the cost was estimated at $90 million. That's why it was cancelled.
We didn't even have a DOGE then, but the cost estimate included repaving the streets of Washington DC that would have been ruined by the tanks and heavy artillery. I find it hard to believe that the same parade is only going to cost HALF of that now.
republianmushroom
(19,991 posts)Chicken feed to what he will cost tax payers this year.
Turbineguy
(39,038 posts)and it's only taxpayer money. I mean, who's really important here?
It's 13 golf games.
BurnDoubt
(509 posts)As well as the clean-up and any and all adjunct damages. UN--AMERICAN BANANA REPUBLIC COSPLAY. NO... NONE FOR ME!
pansypoo53219
(22,247 posts)J_William_Ryan
(2,760 posts)This is an example of government fraud and waste that needs to be eliminated.
leftyladyfrommo
(19,793 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
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$92 Million dollars is unacceptable to spend on a draft dodgers birthday present/military parade.
You cant push for wasteful spending cuts AND allow a draft dodger to have his ego boost.

