The president was previously forced to abandon plans for a procession in Washington, D.C., due to its colossal price tag.
  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    8 hours ago

    It would be cool if no one went. Just him, Musk, and some right wing drifters on empty streets.

    • Kuadhual@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      When there is video footage of the parade, someone needs to make a video clip that is compiled from several clips from the US, North Korean and Russian military parades and put “Entry of The Gladiators” as the background music.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    164·
    13 hours ago

    Wow. Just like every dictator out there with a huge inferiority complex, trying to boost their ego.

    • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      87·
      7 hours ago

      Anyone who hasn’t watched Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator really should. In the movie they mock how Mussolini was simping for Hitler and wanted to impress him by trying to one-up him at every occasion.

      This is totally what Trump is trying to do with Putin right now. Trump is a Putin simp desperate to get his attention.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
        30·
        11 hours ago

        Just for the historical record, here’s Mussolini’s last public appearance:

        Just Hanging Out (nsfw)

      • buwho@lemmy.mlEnglish
        171·
        13 hours ago

        is there a textbook that people like trump read and act accordingly. because its almost as if there is a guide book on being a self absorbed fascist tyrant baby

        • Tiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          9 hours ago

          I know you’re being facetious and asking this from their side, but from our non-Nazi side I highly recommend “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by Shirer which is a great telling of how Hitler rise to power and a study of him and his crew. I’m sure Trump types read these histories to learn and try to pick up where Hitler failed.

          • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            8 hours ago

            My reading of history is that Hitler failed because he was Hitler.

            He was a powerful orator, and also a narcissistic man baby, high on his own self importance long before he was high on meth/cocaine/heroin/etc.

            He was too paranoid to trust anyone more competent than he was, and he was fucking incompetent.

            I could go on, but in short, Hitler was a conman who tapped into that special hatred that some people have in place of their hearts.

        • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          10 hours ago

          Yeah there’s a bunch of history books. My mom had a collection of history books on the second world war with accounts of what happened and the atrocities committed.

          You just have to take notes in a notebook and call it Project 2025.

        • AJ1@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          10 hours ago

          there’s a playbook, for sure. it’s not officially published, but every d-bag like this gets a copy

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          51·
          12 hours ago

          i mean. i guess. it’s titled “my daddy never hugged me and kept me away from my mom, whom he may or may not have effectively purchased on account of how incredibly impoverished she was”

  • selkiesidhe@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    12 hours ago

    The draft dodger Private Bonespurs

    Fuck this guy. I’d risk my career in protest of I were in the military. No way I’m going to dance like a trained monkey for some PoS like drumpf…