Donald Trump was unhappy with his sparsely attended military parade over the weekend and blamed it on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, biographer Michael Wolff revealed.
Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a “menacing” show of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday—but got a “festive” parade instead.
“He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
He’s not happy they smiled and waved at the people they signed away their lives to protect.
This is how Trump treats the US Army soldiers who were forced to march in front of Trump for a day that was supposed to celebrate them and their accomplishments.
Thank you to the US Army for trying to pit something together that would be fun for US citizens. If it weren’t for Trump smearing his shit all over everything I’m sure plenty more would have turned out to show their support as real Americans celebrating real patriots rather than the fascists so many US soldiers have died fighting against.
Didn’t see much of it but the uniforms and equipment from every era was hella cool. They actually made it about army history, not a goose-stepping show of force.
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Frankly, it’s just about the best way the Army could have handled this whole thing.
Always remember: the vast majority of the US Army is very, very good at malicious compliance. I’m pretty sure the E4 mafia grants you an unofficial Malicious Compliance MOS once you make that rank.
There are two types of people who survive decently in the military. Those who can find every loophole and can maliciously comply, and those who allow themselves to be completely broken and reshaped into perfect compliance by the system.
Many people believe the second group is more common, but it’s really not, since those people tend to be in lower ranking positions. Bullet catchers and the like.
Oh dang, I might have to go watch it now XD
Drumpf isn’t a fan of history, or learning.
I mean some of them might actually believe that. But Trump is not wrong here. They signed away their lives to protect Billionaires and their property. There is a reason as things get worse and worse that the police and military budget gets bigger and bigger. Theyre the class traitors that protect the wealthy from both domestic and foreign threats. With the military now being turned inward as well to bring a taste of American foreign policy to its own citizens that dare to resist.
I can only speak for myself, the vast majority of the people I served with, and my family and friends who are currently active duty.
I have never met a single person I believed signed up to “Protect billionaires and their property”.
How they may be used by the current administration has nothing to do with their personal motivations.
Yes. Because you’re believing a lie. Our military is used to secure the interest of the wealthy. I don’t see how anyone could think otherwise at this point.
You can lie to yourself and project your individual ideas and morals onto your role in the military. That’s a way to feel good I guess. But that doesn’t matter when the material goals of the military are to cause instability in regions we want to exploit for resources and control.
Everyone is always against the past crimes of the military. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. But only decades after the fact.
It’s difficult to standup against it now as we support Israel in its aggression against Iran.
Most of the people I know that signed up for the military did so because they didn’t have any other options out of high school. Their grades weren’t good enough for college, their families were too poor to keep supporting them, and the job market (especially when I graduated high school in 2009) was so shit that the military was the only viable option for a lot of people. We have slim to none in the way of social safety nets in this country, and for the people who want to try to get some semblance of stability and self-sufficiency after high school, the military is often the best and/or only option.
Your stance here is woefully narrow-minded and completely ignores the reality faced by many young Americans who are just trying to make their way in the world. It’s hideous and abhorrent that our systems are set up like this to the point that the military is a lifeline for many young adults, but I’m not going to blame them for believing the ubiquitous propaganda or making a calculated choice to try to survive in this capitalist hellscape.
Tell me which part of this makes what I said incorrect? You’re just describing the material conditions that lead to working class people joining the military. Which I don’t disagree with. They are parasitic in nature. I don’t blame anyone that was fooled or forced into it by default.
I’m talking about the material outcomes and purpose our military serves. The military being a government jobs program doesn’t somehow change its purpose and who it serves.
You could have a Orphan Baby Murdering Factory that provided jobs and benefits. It could even sometimes build infrastructure or help it’s community outside of its main purpose. But it would still have a purpose to murder orphan babies.
Our militarys main purpose is to uphold and defend American imperialism. It is the world’s largest terrorist organization.
I’ll back that up with receipts too if you want. But I really am just trying to get you to understand that this isn’t an attack on individuals in the military. But more of an attack on their delusions of what purpose they think it serves.
I respect wholeheartedly those that joined, served, and are now outspoken against it. But I cannot respect for a second someone that served in the military and also advocates for others to do so. Because all they are saying is “well, it’s ok to bomb innocent people and disrupt entire countries because otherwise I couldn’t have afforded college”. It’s inherently selfish and quite frankly it’s disgusting.
Most of the military members I know are well aware of what the end result is, and the ones that are sticking it out for a prolonged career are doing so in order to try to change things from the inside. Most of the ones that did the minimum amount of time and got out are aware as well.
And for this part:
But I cannot respect for a second someone that served in the military and also advocates for others to do so. Because all they are saying is “well, it’s ok to bomb innocent people and disrupt entire countries because otherwise I couldn’t have afforded college”.
There are shades of gray here and you are stubbornly ignoring any nuance that might exist. For a lot of people, it’s not just a matter of being able to go to college, it’s a matter of being able to eat regularly and keep a roof over their head. There are plenty of veterans that fully acknowledge that being in the service comes with many problems and ethical quagmires, but they still recommend it for people in the position of having to choose between destitution or military service.
Yeah, you’re just justifying serving a terrorist organization. These same things could be said of people that join ISIS if you wanted to make excuses. And those people have much more dire circumstances than anyone that lives in the US ever could.
I’m sure you’d have this same moral gray area discussion when ISIS kills innocent people. /s
Just because someone can click a button on a controller or do paper pushing for a terrorist organization doesn’t mean they are any less of terrorist.
I’m sure you’d make the same moral gray argument for the person that booked the tickets for flight 93. They were clearly just doing paperwork.
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And only $46 million down the drain
What’s that really though - golf trip security and accommodation costs alone for Trump in just his second term thus far have already cost around that. For which he insists the secret service and other support staff use his own golf courses and hotels so that he literally gets paid handsomly to golf & stay at his own resorts (breaking the emoluments clause of the Constitution in the process).
At least none of that $46mil went to Trump & co and the whole affair embarrassed him by the poor turnout and mediocre parade. Money well spent it was not, but at least he hated it.
He also systematically overcharges for Secret Service accomodations as well, including golf cart rentals for following him around.
He actually makes profit on his security detail. Welcome to the United States of Ferengenar.
What’s that really though -
I dunno, maybe healthcare for hundreds of thousands of people for a year?
Or 460 really sick people in hospital for a year, this is America after all.
Let’s just agree it’s a criminal waste, as is everything thing else about this criminal wastrel.
It’s massively wasteful and corrupt spending, is what it is.
If we took this combined ~80mil and thoughtfully spent it on affordable housing, we could quite possibly eliminate homelessness in the US. This would have a profound impact on people’s perceived quality of life in this country, as well as put in motion economic gains from the ground up. It could have been a massive W across the board, aka good leadership and responsible stewardship.
"He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
The Disaster in Chief doesn’t even know what the fuck “hamming it up” means. 🤦♂️
It’s so lovely to hear that he’s unhappy!
Hopefully it really hurts his fee-fees that he’s despised by anyone with a remotely functioning brain
Unfortunately that would take logic. But we’ll enjoy his manbaby rage at Drinky Pete anwyay.
Imagine being one of those in his circle, waiting for the dictatorship to become real, and facing summary execution if the Tangerine Toddler decides to throw a tantrum…
That’s why I think they’ll be the ones to assassinate him. Hopefully Caesar style.
No one likes you bitch! That’s why no one showed up to your backwoods shin-dig. You’re a huuuuge orange joke. The likes of which the world has never seen before.
Dictators always blame others for their failings.
But hegseth is a failure too.
Take it easy in the admins token DUI hire
I don’t think he has many tokens — at least not from AA.
He isn’t top shelf, but his liquor is…
that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.
If he didn’t want soldiers that were excited to be there, then why did he have them screened for political association to make sure they were his supporters?
Wait he did that? Wtf
In addition to screening for BMI, yes.
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Did he want a high BMI or a low BMI?
Do you have a source for this? I saw that he screened the soldiers at his fort bragg speech like this but haven’t seen reports that parade soldiers were screened similarly.
Awwww… no one showed up to wittle Donnie’s birthday party.
I couldn’t go. I have bone spurs
as a tangent we really need to take journalists aside and talk to them about the phrases they’re coining to avoid repeating themselves every time they need to describe “talking shit” or “yell at” in an article title.
I automatically down vote all posts with “slam” and “blast” in the headline. Doesn’t matter what the actual news is
That shit needs to stop
Trump SLAMS Pelosi in the broom closet 3 times a week.
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So, that doesn’t do anything to the journalist or reporting entity. It just makes news less visible here because you are annoyed at a word choice.
Perhaps you could contact the publisher or writer and let them know you are unhappy instead?
Less visible, less clicks, less revenue
Don’t downvote news on distribution or aggregate sites, contact the publishers directly.
don’t blast slam me for how I vote 😤
As always, journalists write articles, and their editors select the title.
It’s pride month. They can have a little extra entendre, as a treat.
Guess he’ll be trying to outlaw smiling and looking happy now
Don’t worry, his policies will stop everyone smiling.
What a spoiled baby, whining about how his birthday party didn’t live up to his dreams.
For Trump’s next birthday, he will sell a parade of NFTs featuring lilly-white AI-generated military warriors with faces so hard it will make his pussy wet.
Kegseth had an important meeting
whozat
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Alex Lace according to a reverse image search. No real idea who he is.
