Day: June 14, 2025

I Love A Parade As Does The Donald

By Bob Small

Donald Trump is getting a full military parade on his birthday, which is today, June 14.

Most of us get cards or presents only.

This parade is one of the perks of being President. This also the US Army’s 250th anniversary.

”It also marks a rare example of an official military parade taking place inside the United States,” says Lyle Goldstein, aformer US Naval War College professor. “If, as Americans, we were truly confident in our armed forces we wouldn’t need to display our military might.”

He also maintains that we are not keeping pace with China and Russia, in, for instance, the area of hypersonic missiles. One hopes to be corrected on this.

The total forces being called up reportedly are 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven military bands and thousands of civilians” along with 34 horses, two mules and a dog.

There have already been allusions to Hitler, etc.

German philosopher Theodor Adorno says, fascist rituals portrayed the authoritarian leader as both a “superman” and an ordinary, flawed “average person.”

This feels like stretching the allusion.

The parade will include 28 M1A1 Abrams tanks, 28 Stryker armored personnel carriers, 28 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, four M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzers, as well as military relics like World War II-era Sherman tanks, a B-25 bomber, and a P-51 Mustang single-seat fighter plane, according to Army spokesperson Cynthia Smith.

The Guardian, expectedly, focused on some anti-Trump rhetoric.

“Confidence is silent, and insecurity is loud,” the Louisiana senator John Kennedy told MSNBC. “America is the most powerful country in all of human history and we don’t need to show it off. We’re not North Korea. We’re not Russia, we’re not China and I don’t wanna be.”

However, they also presented the other side, somewhat surprisingly, courtesy of current Fox News Host, Kayleigh McEnany  “The Democratic party, they’ve chosen to be an outrage machine at a time when there is outrage fatigue in this country”.

By the way, the only dog marching in the parade is named Doc Holliday.

See also 1932 Harry Richman – I Love A Parade – YouTube