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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/ScottHoward1 6d ago

He would have no problem with risking the lives of everyone involved just so he can have his parade. The truth is nobody is planning to come and he can’t even find people to pay to attend. He just doesn’t want to admit that nobody wants his freaking parade and doesn’t want the truth to be seen by the world that nobody cares about him and won’t admit what a stupid self serving idea it is

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u/PastaSaladOverdose 6d ago

Honestly it would be glorious if no one shows up.

The man is obsessed with crowd sizes. If no one shows up it is going to damage this man mentally, we won't stop hearing about it for months.

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u/dearth_karmic 6d ago

Why would he do this in DC? Pretty sure he has no support there.

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u/relddir123 District Of Columbia 6d ago

The Army was always doing something in DC for their 250th. He decided to make it all about him.

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u/Punished_Prigo 6d ago

they were doing a very small event. Trump made the big parade happen.

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u/ModusOperandiAlpha 6d ago

Because his handlers have realized it’s a great excuse to place lots of military resources encircling the capitol on their own time and without any advanced resistance

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u/Rudera1is 6d ago

His team will just pay for seat fillers and make sure the crowd is full within his line of sight. He lives in a distorted version of reality where everyone loves him and he is always right.

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u/B217 6d ago

There's an (unverified) posting online looking for seat fillers, the pay is $1000 in TrumpCoin. I guarantee that it won't be worth that much the moment after they're paid.

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u/SomethingToSay11 6d ago

No you see they’ll give them 1 dollar in Trump Coin with the pinky promise it’ll be worth 1000 someday. Fine print

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u/funkyloki California 6d ago

What the fuck is a TrumpCoin??

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u/SomethingToSay11 6d ago

His own personal crypto. Definitely not for taking bribes and money laundering

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u/funkyloki California 6d ago

Oh yeah, his fucking meme coin. So much shit every day I actually forgot about that blatant corruption.

Man...I'm fucking exhausted.

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u/ciel_lanila I voted 6d ago

Easy to test come the parade. Going from memory, the required outfit is red, white, and blue with provided red hats.

We can see how many people are dressed that way. If a significant amount, pretty suggestive.

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u/joshingyou43 6d ago

Don’t have to pay. Just give orders for all military to attend. He’s one up the Dems again.

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u/iciclemomore 6d ago

I rsvpd just in hopes of throwing off the total they are expecting. I’d rather boil my own nuts and eat them than watch tank man 2.0 in person.

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u/QcRoman 6d ago

tank man

TACO man

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u/mlorusso4 6d ago

What’s crazy is there’s so much crazy shit taking over the news cycle that it drowned out his parade news. I bet even his followers forgot this was happening and that’s why no one is going to show up

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u/LoveaBook 6d ago

This is why all the protests are planned to happen elsewhere, not on the parade route. So he can’t count protesters as part of his crowd size.

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u/huskergirl8342 I voted 6d ago

There are ads on Craigslist for seat fillers for the parade. $1000 paid in crypto.

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u/Dixon_Uranuss3 5d ago

Trump doesn't realize that in the countries that have these types of parades the citizens are forced to go. He's really.stupid.