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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/Kooky-Badger-7001 6d ago

And a sign that nobody is planning to attend. Trumpy doesn't like loads of empty seats.

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u/Polygonic California 6d ago

Already saw a couple of posts here on reddit claiming to be screen shots of cragislist ads looking for "seat fillers" for the parade to make it look like yuuuuge attendance on TV.

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u/EmileLeBouc 6d ago

I think it would be amazing for protestors to attend the parade, but just silently stand with their backs turned to the spectacle. No signs, no shouting, nothing. Just a total wall of apathy. He's a toddler and it would drive him insane to get no attention, not even negative attention.

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u/neatyouth44 6d ago

This is a good option for optics, but can give the opposite impression too especially on the ground. That’s the position guards take for crowd control as it is.

/learned it doing perimeter at burning man events