Price tag for Trump's military parade could reach $45 million

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Post

A massive military parade planned in Washington next month will cost an estimated $25 million to $45 million and will involve dozens of war planes, hundreds of Army vehicles and thousands of soldiers from across the country sleeping in downtown government office buildings, an Army spokesperson said Thursday.

The parade, to commemorate the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, will be held June 14, the same day as President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, and will include representation from all 10 active military divisions, said Army spokesman Steve Warren.

The parade’s overlap with Trump’s birthday has prompted ire, especially at a time when his overhaul of the federal government includes slashing the Department of Veterans Affairs. The president has long mused about soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the streets of the capital and aircraft roaring overhead. Protest plans are also underway.

About 3,000 service members will be housed on unused floors of a General Services Administration building and 2,000 in a Department of Agriculture building, Warren said. Most participating service members will arrive a couple of days before the parade, he said, and leave June 16.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/15/trump-military-parade-soldiers-sleep-office-buildings/

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Complete waste of money at any time, but especially when the president is a draft-dodging dictator-fellating treasonous crook.

[exboyfil]

1. Medicaid coverage for 9000 adults

for a year.

[Bayard]

2. Nauseating

Cutting people's jobs and necessities everywhere, so he can play Army. Doesn't Congress have to fund this?

If I remember right, when he wanted to do this the first time experts said the roadways wouldn't hold up to tank traffic.

[Traildogbob]

3. So what???

We are gonna stuff the budget bank with 900 billion in Medicaid savings. 45 Million, chump change for such a Patriotic event to pull AmurKKKa back together as one nation, under God with………lib…ah for Fucks sake! We are over!!!
More God blessing us, he loves his primary favorite peeps.
White folks, like him.
I can hear Lee Greenwood coming from my toaster 24/7. Wear my damn flag at? I hid it after J6. Time to fly it again a unite and bow.

[Norrrm]

4. Trump does not want to salute the military. He wants the world to see the military salute him.

[Pas-de-Calais]

5. Am praying for

Lightening, thunder & torrential rains that day

[slightlv]

6. A nice tornado or flash flood would fit right in! n/t

[OKIsItJustMe]

9. "A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake..."

[EarthFirst]

7. Don't Democrats control the weather?

This would be a opportune time to demonstrate that ability…

[FakeNoose]

8. Back in 2018 he wanted the SAME THING - a full out military parade for his birthday

Back then the cost was estimated at $90 million. That's why it was cancelled.

We didn't even have a DOGE then, but the cost estimate included repaving the streets of Washington DC that would have been ruined by the tanks and heavy artillery. I find it hard to believe that the same parade is only going to cost HALF of that now.

[republianmushroom]

10. You mean twice as much as he has spent golfing so far this term.

Chicken feed to what he will cost tax payers this year.

[Turbineguy]

11. But it's HIS birthday

and it's only taxpayer money. I mean, who's really important here?



It's 13 golf games.

[BurnDoubt]

12. HE can afford it. Let him pay for it. As a gift to 'MurKKKa...

As well as the clean-up and any and all adjunct damages. UN--AMERICAN BANANA REPUBLIC COSPLAY. NO... NONE FOR ME!

[pansypoo53219]

13. he has to pay for his parade. + his golf trips too.

[J_William_Ryan]

14. "The parade's overlap with Trump's birthday has prompted ire..."

This is an example of government fraud and waste that needs to be eliminated.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. That's only 3 golf trips. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Draft dodgers do not deserve a military parade

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

The only parade the taxpayers should be paying for with Trump is his final one.

$92 Million dollars is unacceptable to spend on a draft dodger’s birthday present/military parade.

You can’t push for wasteful spending cuts AND allow a draft dodger to have his ego boost.