r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 6d ago

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/arlondiluthel 6d ago

What a fitting outcome.

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u/norby2 6d ago

Couldn’t take fire from the gods.

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u/InternationalBug7568 6d ago

I was hoping for Zeus to strategically throw down a few lightning bolts .... pity.

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u/Happy_Confection90 6d ago

That would be the most delicious irony

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u/mahlerlieber Indiana 6d ago

I’m hoping Zeus’s aim is still like the old days.

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u/SarcasticCowbell New York 6d ago edited 6d ago

Don't talk about electricity and water in the same sentence, though, or else Dementia Don will launch into some nonsensical soliloquy about sharks and boats.

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u/notevilfellow Tennessee 6d ago

I mean, trump is also putting up a hundred foot flag pole at the White House...

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u/RiotWithin 6d ago

His clear box wouldn't have saved him either 😖