Trump threatens protesters who rain on his military parade Saturday 'will be met with very big force'

[Eugene]

Source: The Independent

Trump threatens protesters who rain on his military parade Saturday ‘will be met with very big force’

The explicit threat comes days after Trump ordered soldiers to put down protests in Los Angeles

Andrew Feinberg
in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday 10 June 2025 18:43 BST

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to forcibly put down any protests that spoil the military parade he has ordered up for his birthday on Saturday to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army’s founding during the American Revolutionary War.

Speaking in the Oval Office following an impromptu event to discuss forest management ahead of the upcoming summer wildfire season, Trump was riffing on what he described as violent excesses by protesters who’ve been demonstrating against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles when he was asked about the possibility of protests against the June 14 parade.

The president said it would be an “amazing day” and cited the “tanks ... planes ... all sorts of things” that will be on display during the spectacle, which is ostensibly meant to mark the Army’s semiquincentennial. He also compared the parade, which breaks from the American tradition that largely eschews militaristic or jingoistic displays of the sort routinely seen in authoritarian countries, to European celebrations of the end of the Second World War.

“We won the war, and we're the only country that didn't celebrate it, and we're going to be celebrating big on Saturday. We're going to have a lot of and if there's any protest that wants to come out, they will be met with very big force,” he said.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-birthday-military-parade-protest-threat-b2767425.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-protesters-rain-military-170949392.html

[Ocelot II]

1. I hope Nature rains on his fucking parade.

A chance of light rain is predicted on Saturday and it's going to be hot, so there's always a chance thunderstorms will develop by evening. C'mon, God, you can do it. You fucking owe us.

[struggle4progress]

5. NWS sez: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy,

with a high near 89. Chance of precipitation is 60%

[Ocelot II]

8. Excellent!

Bring it on!

[Hekate]

10. I was once in DC during a hot July thunderstorm & it was miserable. That city of cement & marble STEAMED.

It would be wonderful if Mango Mussolini could experience that. His new uniform would get wrinkled. His bronzer would get streaked with sweat.

[newdeal2]

19. It's going to be a hot and steamy few days

Never a good combination with trigger happy people.

I do hope it rains all over his parade.

[Moostache]

2. Hey TACO? I will be protesting you that day.

I expect to be joined by MILLIONS across the nation.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

3. Same here!

If my spouse’s fibromyalgia isn’t acting up that day, she’ll be with me. I am also rooting for Mother Nature to rain on TSF’s parade.

[Submariner]

4. Should we just have beer bars, or should we have a Tequila shot bar too following the parade?

[dweller]

6. Amazing day !

tanks ... planes ... all sorts of things
Big spectacle !
Be there !
Will be wild !!

😐



✌🏻

[sop]

7. Europeans celebrate the end of WWII because they (and the U.S.) defeated fascism.

Trump just wants to emulate the Europeans. His military extravaganza is an Antifa parade.

[Hekate]

9. We didn't celebrate the end of WWII? I remember photos of ticker-tape parades in NYC...

Not to mention the famous photo of the sailor who grabbed a nurse and bent her over backwards to give her a smooch in his enthusiasm. People were dancing in the streets, just like we will be when trump kicks the bucket.

It was the end of the Vietnam War we didn’t celebrate, you orange idiot. But then, you are such a sucker and loser you can’t tell one war from another, and put Whiskey Pete in charge of the Pentagon.

[Ping Tung]

11. "Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." Mark Twain

[CrispyQ]

12. People should show up wearing chicken masks. Amazon has a ton. 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔 -nt

[jls4561]

13. I just looked up the weather for DC on Saturday. I think we may be in for an "old man yells at cloud" episode.

[Hekate]

14. Just to be clear: does he think we will becoming to DC to watch the tanks rip up the streets?

Or is he making deadly threats to us wherever we are? ‘Cause, we’ll be “wherever” in bigly numbers.

See you on the hustings.

[spanone]

15. He might as well go on TV and shit on the Constitution.

[MiHale]

16. Eat poop and die, motherfu*ker.

I’ll protest whenever and wherever I choose.

[purr-rat beauty]

17. Fuck it

Let's go occupy Mar A Lago...if feeling fiesty, burn the shit hole down

[Arazi]

18. Suggestion that any protesters stand silently with backs to the parade and upside down flags

Don’t engage and don’t rile up the cops who will be primed for aggression

[Brother Buzz]

20. The first amendment was such a quaint concept

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[odins folly]

21. Does this asshole

Think that the entire parade will stop goose stepping past him and turn towards the protesters and attack???

Fuck this guy...

And as a 20 vet, I truly feel sorry for the service members who were ordered to participate...

[IcyPeas]

22. Threats, threats and more threats.

And Mikey Johnson wants to tar and feather Newsom.

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