Last night, the word came down that President Trump’s highly controversial and exorbitantly expensive $92 million “military parade” has been delayed by at least a year over concerns about the cost, which prompted the President to cancel it in a sad attempt to avoid losing face.
The president took to Twitter and blamed the local Washington D.C. government for setting the price too high despite clearly having had no conception of what an enormous undertaking a military parade would be and how high the security risks at an event like that would be.
The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up! I will instead…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
….attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date, & go to the Paris parade, celebrating the end of the War, on November 11th. Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we can buy some more jet fighters!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, quickly took to Twitter to troll the “reality star” in the White House and added one of the president’s own trademark ending jabs — sad!
Yup, I’m Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, the local politician who finally got thru to the reality star in the White House with the realities ($21.6M) of parades/events/demonstrations in Trump America (sad). https://t.co/vqC3d8FLqx
— MurielBowser (@MurielBowser) August 17, 2018
We can all breathe a sigh of relief knowing that we’ll be free of this obscene display of militarism and instead be able to spend Veterans’ Day in quiet contemplation of the appalling human toll from our endless overseas wars and how we owe it to our veterans to reconsider a failed foreign policy that has accomplished little in fifteen years but created more traumatized veterans and squandered countless billions of taxpayer dollars.