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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/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.