T-rump wants a military parade - a BIGLY one! The Yugest!
Pentagon spokesman Charlie Summers confirmed that last month, T-rump has asked for a big military parade, and the Pentagon is now working on potential dates for the Summer. In response, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders claimed the President only asked them to 'explore' the idea.
A military official with knowledge of the meeting has said, "The marching orders were: 'I want a parade like the one in France'. This is being worked at the highest levels of the military."
Vice President Mike Pence, White House chief of staff John Kelly, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford were all present at the meeting in the Pentagon.
T-rump is referring to the Bastille Day parade he attended last year, as a guest of French President Emmanuel Macron. He later called the French military parade "one of the greatest parades" he had ever seen. In a conversation with Macron last September, he said he wanted a military parade on the Fourth of July in Washington.
So far, military officials are not sure how this parade will be paid. The tab just to send tanks and military hardware to Washington will cost 'millions of dollars'. Then there is the cost of security, maintenance, and costly repairs to Penn Avenue in the days afterwards.
Not coincidentally, the news of T-rump's big parade comes just after North Korea announced it was planning to show off dozens of long-range missiles during a February 8 parade. The North Korean Parade is expected to include dozens of intercontinental-range Hwasong-15 missiles, which the North Koreans test-fired for the first time in late November, according to sources familiar with the plan.
Showing off "hundreds of missiles and rockets" would be "to scare the hell out of the Americans," according to one source.