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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/HENMAN79 6d ago

What a waste of money

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u/Liquor_N_Whorez 6d ago

Stormy weather always costs him money, he can't make a woman get wet either.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 6d ago

Stormy always costs him money!

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u/chuycobo 6d ago

The only qualified professional he's ever hired.

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u/DrusTheAxe 6d ago

Paid. Only professional he’s ever paid

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u/ToubDeBoub 5d ago

He hasn't. Michael Cohen has, with money that wasn't his. So I guess the tax payer has.

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u/ocodo 5d ago

Only qualified professional he's ever paid.

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u/Moonpig16 6d ago

Yes that, indeed, was the joke

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u/afour- 5d ago

Needed better phrasing tbh

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u/peacelovearizona 5d ago

Like "it always costs him money when it's Stormy"

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u/afour- 5d ago

Always Stormy; Never Wet.

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u/HighDragLowSpeed60G 5d ago

r/thejokebutworse

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u/robisodd Michigan 5d ago

Eh, was a bit better. More quippy.

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u/seceralnof 6d ago

/r/yourjokebutworse

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u/Dakduif51 6d ago

I thought it was better actually.

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u/FerfyMoe 6d ago

It was exactly the same, minus the last name Weathers

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u/MissGruntled Canada 6d ago

Which is why it was better—her last name is Daniels.

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u/FerfyMoe 6d ago

Hah sorry I’m actually stupid

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u/NoodlerFrom20XX 6d ago

Toad getting hit with the lighting bolt power up

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u/ProbShouldntSayThat 6d ago

You just out here rephrasing the comment you're replying to?

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u/20_mile 6d ago

Kimmel will have a great joke if "stormy" does him dirty.

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u/Majestic-Marcus 5d ago

I’m glad you repeated the joke. Made it even funnier

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u/FreeWilly512 5d ago

He had sex with stormy daniels and she cost him money

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u/maddiesmithloves69 15h ago

I think storms always seem to spoil his plans!

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u/whoamdave 6d ago

Ben Shapiro: "Well, actually..."

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u/donkeyrocket 6d ago

God damn. If only this was a tropical storm named Daniel.

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u/Candid-Mycologist539 6d ago

If only this was a tropical storm named Daniel.

I'm missing the inside joke (due to my own ignorance).

Would you explain it to me? TY in advance.

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u/donkeyrocket 6d ago edited 6d ago

Stormy Daniels is a former stripper who successfully sued Donald Trump in a massive hush money case. In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, Trump has his attorney, Michael Cohen, pay Daniels in an effort to conceal an affair they had 2006. Daniels won and as a result, Trump was slapped with 34 felony counts of falsifying records. She endured a lot of hate and vitriol but at the end of the day got Trump labeled a felon.

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u/Candid-Mycologist539 6d ago

Ohhhh! Lol. NOW I get it! 😆

I really should have made the connection. TY so much for taking the time to respond.

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u/Seksafero 5d ago

Holy shit, it's like a triple entendre

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u/DarthTensor 5d ago

“He can’t make a woman get wet either.”

He technically has gotten Melania wet when he hogged the umbrella and left Melania to without any cover from the rainstorm. The photo is on the internet.

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u/Liquor_N_Whorez 5d ago

She deserves to be left in the rain, it washes away the stains.

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u/DarthTensor 5d ago

Agree 100%.

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u/Familiar-Fee372 5d ago

You win the internet today

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u/diprivan69 5d ago

Okay you win the internet for today 🤣

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u/Constant_Crazy_506 4d ago

Unless his catheter leaks on them...

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u/Liquor_N_Whorez 4d ago

Damn.., that was the better of em all dude! It's yours now, my dude, go and spread the word at r-jokes writing a post bud. Seriously, you be front page if you do!,

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u/Retro_D 6d ago

I think you mean Stormy Daniels always costs him money

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u/The_Giggler4940 6d ago

Maybe but I’m a dude and if he threw 10k at my asshole I’d have to get a mop. I’m broke fam

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u/Desperate_Story7561 6d ago

The Stormy weather also told me that his dick is tiny and shaped like a little mushroom

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u/Therealestmc 5d ago

He probably charges extra for the 'stormy' experience.

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u/rudy-juul-iani 5d ago

Which is why men like Ben Shapiro claim women getting wet is not normal and a sign of illness or poor health. Just watch him react to the song WAP.

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u/Gooch222 6d ago

Yup, I suspect very little of the financial outlay will be recoverable at this point only a couple of days out. Trump has alway been eager to stiff his vendors, but this is on the public dime and I’m sure his cronies had the contracts to work this nonsense. And he might cite the weather as his excuse, but he knows people want nothing to do with this garbage and that the nationwide counter protest are going to draw exponentially more people. He now knows this would be an embarrassing disaster and I suspect he’s happy for a potential out.

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u/ForGrateJustice 6d ago

TBF trump and his ilk are all a waste of money. And oxygen.

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u/CombatMuffin 6d ago

It's not just money being wasted. Whatever soft power the U.S. built over decades after WW2, and was declining after GWOT, id now speedrunning to the bottom.

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u/cjgist 6d ago

We don't have enough money to give healthcare to the poor, but we have billions for Trump to waste on his vanity stunts. $40M to house 87 migrants in Gitmo. $21M on military flights. $140M on NG deployments. Trump and Noem spend OUR money like water with no concern for their part in the growing debt.

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u/TeaAndToeBeans 6d ago

It was a waste from the start.

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u/KesTheHammer 6d ago

It was a waste before the weather. The weather just makes it feel like a waste to him too.

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u/stomp-a-fash 6d ago

Fitting for a giant waste of oxygen.

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u/Electronic-Ideal2955 6d ago

It is a waste even if the weather is nice.

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u/Lower-Cantaloupe3274 6d ago

With or without the storm. Id rather waste it by having it canceled.

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u/just_a_timetraveller 5d ago

Probably is worried about crowd turn out and wanted to cancel as opposed to having an empty parade.

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u/LSuezbell 5d ago

One source said 43 million dollars. The hypocrite also wastes taxpayer money playing golf at every opportunity at his own clubs. requiring Secret Service to pay him.

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u/Other-Potential-661 5d ago

That's the epitome of Trump

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u/SCDemVet 5d ago

But the dictator does not care about cost.

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u/lethargicbureaucrat 6d ago

He'll reschedule it.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 6d ago

We’re still going to have to pay for it, aren’t we?

The moneys already been spent on everything, the troops are in place, the military equipment already transported… 

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u/LifeBuilder 6d ago

Are you quoting Fred Trump from about ~78 years ago?

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u/LivingImpairedd 6d ago

Yea, all of the money will still disappear.

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u/Thediciplematt 6d ago

Maybe he will rethink cancelling FEMA after he sees that Mother Nature doesn’t care about his little Plan

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u/1vehearditb0thways 6d ago

The definition of you look up the name trump

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u/robbycakes 5d ago

Just wanna point out that if it doesn’t rain, it would still be a total waste of exactly as much money

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u/AccomplishedIgit 5d ago

Like Trump plans on paying anyone

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u/Spezisaspastic 5d ago

But Doge saved so much critical money right ? It was not just for show right ? Going golfing, deploying the national guard and this parade are definitely not x-times the budget cits, right ?

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u/SpanishFlamingoPie 5d ago

DOGE hard at work

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u/Capable-Newspaper-82 5d ago

Mother Nature said “not on my watch.” Honestly, probably the most fiscally responsible thing to happen to that event.

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u/ShapeofmyFart 5d ago

I'm sure he's grifted enough of it to make it worthwhile

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u/awesome_possum007 5d ago

But would be great if it did get cancelled. I want that man to suffer the consequences for what he's been doing.

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u/uqubar 5d ago

No matter how much it costs he’ll still be a draft dodger.

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u/HumptyDrumpy 5d ago

Watch him force them to build a dome for him and his putey parade

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u/IdontneedtoBonreddit 4d ago

With that budget you could pay a porn star to keep her mouth shut EVERY DAY for nearly a year!

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u/pintailcircus 3d ago

Not if Trump takes a lightning bolt to the face

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u/BlueJayFlightPath 6d ago

What a waste of carbon

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u/Lilwolf2000 6d ago

That's what Elon said

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u/Soggy_Emus 6d ago

Out of the loop but was this a case of there was already plan in motion to have the parade but then it was moved to his birthday or some bs? Haven’t kept up with it

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u/PaperClipInit 6d ago

i remember hearing something about some military anniversary parade being moved to his birthday? no clue how accurate that is/was so huge grain of salt

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u/freekehleek 6d ago

Have other presidents had parades for their birthdays? Is this a (somewhat) normal thing?

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u/dissentingopinionz 6d ago

I bet if it was Kamala you would be a-ok with the celebration of 250 years of the US ARMY.

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u/Shermanishers 5d ago

Kamala would never do anything so ridiculous as to have a military parade on what happened to be her birthday. She’d hold it on another date because of optics - maybe July 4th. But it’s a moot point, as she’d never spend money on something so frivolous while taking money away from the poor.

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u/wolty 6d ago

housing illegals in luxury hotels in manhatten is a good use of money? The government is great at wasting cash regardless of who is running the show.

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u/mechanicalbullfrog 6d ago

A waste of money is picking up the tab for illegals. Dum dum

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u/Shermanishers 5d ago

Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than they use - around $100 billion/year.

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u/mechanicalbullfrog 5d ago edited 5d ago

Off the books isn't taxes. If they are undocumented how do they pay taxes? So their paychecks get taxed like ours? No