Summary
Trump is planning a $92 million military parade on June 14, 2025—his 79th birthday, Flag Day, and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.
The four-mile event, from the Pentagon to the White House, revives a long-desired spectacle Trump previously canceled in 2018 over costs.
He has since overhauled military leadership, removing top Pentagon officials and replacing them with loyalists likely to support the parade.
D.C. officials, facing pressure from Trump’s federal overreach, have shown little resistance. Critics call it a vanity project amid broader concerns about authoritarian tendencies.
Sounds like a great time to do massive civil disobedience.
I’m pretty sure the DC cops wouldn’t be inclined to step in if a few hundred thousand folks decided to block the parade route.
Maybe you even get someone ran over by a tank. Hmm, that sounds familiar.
I know you’re being sarcastic, but I’d point out that it wouldn’t be the military handling crowd control; it would be the DC police.
DC and Trump have a long and unhappy history.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/08/washington-dc-push-back-gop-attacks/82789086007/
First article in search.
I’m pretty sure the cops would decide that they didn’t want to interfere with a legitimate protest.
Depends. Trump is still trying to bring DC police under DHS control.
They would likely just use sonic weapons to disperse the crowds. People would trample eachother to death trying to flee and he’d just bitch about how inconsiderate all those protestors were.
I wonder what’s worse for Trump: a riot on his parade or nobody showing up.
First, Trump can’t do anything wrong. If nobody shows up he’d tell himself they were all home watching on TV and if there’s a riot he’ll say that Soros paid for it.
Second, even if ACAB the DC police have a vested interest in their own city. They’d put making Trump look bad ahead of anything else.
Good luck
ACAB.