Military Times poll: Majority oppose Trump’s military parade

President Trump has requested that the military begin preparations for a military parade in the nation’s capital, CBS News has confirmed. Well, does anybody on Earth have any doubt about it?

Maj. David Eastburn, a spokesman for the Department of Defense, told BuzzFeed that Mattis is expected to present recommendations to the president, but that Trump would make the final decision.

The location is still undecided, although Trump is said to have suggested Pennsylvania Avenue. “It just seems like a little too much”.

At a Pentagon press briefing, Dana White, the Defense Department’s chief spokesperson, said that other options to Washington, D.C., would be under consideration for holding the parade that reportedly was inspired by Trump’s admiration for the Bastille Day parade he attended in Paris last July. “We’re not North Korea, we’re not Russian Federation, and we’re not China and I don’t want to be”.

“Our Military will now be stronger than ever before”, Trump tweeted Friday morning. It’s also true that Schumer, in 2014, wanted a military parade.

“The PARADE Act ensures that [POTUS] can not spend millions amd millions of taxpayer dollars on a military parade that strokes his big ego and his authoritarian wish list”, Veasey wrote. It started in 1949 with Mao Zedong’s communist party over Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist regime.

“The president is looking at a parade, OK?” Those who really do have unparalleled military might don’t have to put it on display.

Asked whether now is the right time to spend money on a military parade, White indicated that it was worth honoring the one percent of the population who serve in the military. In 2017, the “Great Leader” Kim Jong-un used the occasion to reveal the existence of new long-range and submarine-launched missiles.

One possibility is for a parade on 11 November, the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. That kind of parade would dramatically differ from USA tradition. Troops have marched in a handful of inaugural parades in modern times – mainly during the early days of the Cold War, including in Dwight Eisenhower’s first inaugural parade in 1953.

Military parades of the kind that are common in authoritarian countries like China and North Korea are not quintessentially American.

The US Capitol Building is seen at dusk in Washington DC.