President Trump’s birthday parade has been branded a ‘grotesque birthday party for an ageing man’ – and even wife Melania Trump ‘couldn’t stomach it’
Donald Trump’s ridiculous military parade was never about the troops.
It wasn’t about patriotism, unity, or honouring the 250th anniversary of the US Army, no matter how many flags were waved or tanks rolled by.
It was about one thing only: Donald J. Trump and his obsessive, delusional need to feel worshipped.
Billed as a grand celebration of America’s armed forces, this taxpayer-funded farce was really a grotesque birthday party for an ageing man who’s spent his life confusing adoration with leadership.
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The tanks, the troops, the blaring anthems – all orchestrated not to salute American service but to feed Trump’s insatiable ego as he marked 79 years of being the world’s biggest narcissist.
This wasn’t a show of strength. It was a pitiful attempt to copy the authoritarian pageantry of his role models, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un – leaders Trump has fawned over while undermining American democracy at every turn.
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While America burns, literally and politically, Trump played emperor on a hollow throne.
Just hours after an elected official was assassinated in her own home, and as millions of Americans rallied in the streets under the banner of “No Kings,” Trump paraded down Constitution Avenue like some bloated monarch.
And where were the throngs of adoring fans he so desperately craves? Not in Washington, DC.
Only a few thousand bothered to turn up.
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