Why would any right-thinking American even dream up the idea of protesting this event? What could be better than tanks rolling through Washington D.C.’s streets on Saturday, closing off parts of the city for up to four days, in order to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army, which just happens to also be the 79th anniversary of President Donald Trump’s birth?
Indeed, the president thinks a show of military might, North Korea-style, is just what this country needs, and anyone who thinks otherwise is in trouble. “For those people that want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “This is people that hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force.”
The parade, which will cost at least $45 million, or approximately two percent of the budget cut the administration is seeking for the National Cancer Institute, will honor the formation of a single army by the Continental Congress in 1775 intended to fight off the rise of a tyrannical government — but also our Big Strong Boy’s Big Day. The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, of course, were still a few years off at the time of the army’s founding, so maybe Trump is a bit more focused on the tanks right now than on “the right of the people peaceably to assemble” that those tanks are in theory around to help defend.
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