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Wiz Imp

(5,968 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:19 AM Jun 11

Most GOP lawmakers plan to skip Trump's big parade

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/trump-parade-congress-republicans-00398774

POLITICO surveyed 50 Hill Republicans. Only seven said they’d stick around Saturday for the show.

President Donald Trump is celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary — and his own 79th birthday — with a massive, multimillion-dollar military parade Saturday in Washington.

But one group of otherwise devoted Trump allies largely won’t be there to celebrate: congressional Republicans.

Among the 50 GOP lawmakers surveyed by POLITICO, only seven said they planned to stay in Washington this weekend for the festivities. Those begging off include members of the Republican leadership in both chambers.

The chairs of the House and Senate Armed Services committees, the top congressional officials overseeing the military, are skipping Trump’s pageantry, which includes a flyover of vintage and contemporary warplanes. Instead, they’ll attend a different air show — the annual defense industry confab in Paris.


Nobody's gonna show up for this thing.
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orleans

(36,251 posts)
11. lol. i remember that phrase & that title but i don't remember if i ever saw that movie.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:02 AM
Jun 11

actually i remember the phrase being "what if they gave a war and nobody came"

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delisen

(7,108 posts)
5. Such cowards. They race to surrender to Dictatorship,then flee.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 01:14 AM
Jun 11

Afraid to be photographed at the Military Dictatorship Oppression Parade

BidenRocks

(1,836 posts)
8. Anyone have a digital uplink jammer?
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 02:52 AM
Jun 11

Just a couple news vans would do.
It would only mess with the magats. Who else would watch.
Bad ratings!
Good Trouble!

Skittles

(165,955 posts)
9. that right there should tell us how popular it is
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 02:52 AM
Jun 11

only serious Trump humpers would be on board for a military parade to honor Cadet Bonespurs

orleans

(36,251 posts)
12. they gave us that asshole, they should have to sit there and watch every last second of that bullshit
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:05 AM
Jun 11

and not be allowed to wear masks! LOL

travelingthrulife

(2,862 posts)
14. He said he might start shooting if there are protestors, think these GOP cowards want to risk that?
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:52 AM
Jun 11

I have tickets for two that will not be there.

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