Trump wanted a military spectacle for his parade. Instead, he got a history lesson

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

The parade must go on, and the Army sidestepped a major crisis of image and messaging

 

June 15, 2025

 

"The Army’s 250th birthday parade was not the grand military spectacle that many anticipated, and for that Americans can breathe a momentary, measured sigh of relief. It was a family-friendly conclusion to a celebratory day, with events on the Mall and fireworks at the end. What had been billed as an overwhelming display of military might turned out to be a linear history lesson, from the early days of revolution to the age of robotic dogs and flying drones.

 

A narrator made sense of it all over loudspeakers and for those watching the live stream on television, with a script that rarely strayed from the Army’s disciplined sense of itself as a lethal fighting machine in the service of democracy and the Constitution.

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The president was supposedly inspired to demand a military parade, an exceptionally rare event in recent U.S. history, after seeing a very different display on Bastille Day 2017, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

 

Washington Post

https://archive.ph/iPaqB

 

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[NickyLouie]

18 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

 

Washington Post

https://archive.ph/iPaqB

 

 

 

Since the mid-1970s, some conservatives referred to the Post as "Pravda on the Potomac" because of its perceived left-wing bias in both reporting and editorials.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post

 

[GroveHillWanderer]

27 minutes ago, NickyLouie said:

Since the mid-1970s, some conservatives referred to the Post as "Pravda on the Potomac" because of its perceived left-wing bias in both reporting and editorials.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post

 

 

You obviously haven't been paying attention recently. Since Jeff Bezos took over, the Washington Post has drastically changed its outlook. 

 

And who says so? Donald Trump.

 

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President Trump is offering rare praise of a media executive, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, alluding to a slew of changes he has made to the newspaper in recent months.

 

Trump praises Jeff Bezos’s moves with Washington Post

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5198396-trump-jeff-bezos-washington-post/amp/