Hail-military march is not a capital idea
President Trump may be getting his military parade — just not in Washington, DC.
The Pentagon on Thursday said officials are exploring options to salute the country’s military that might take the event out of the nation’s capital.
“There are options, and we will explore those and the president will ultimately decide,” Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said.
Trump’s marching orders to the Pentagon to come up with an event to celebrate the military and those serving in the armed forces have received a chilly reception in some quarters, including from the former Navy SEAL who killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden in 2011.
“A military parade is Third World bulls--t,” Robert O’Neill wrote Thursday on Twitter. “We prepare. We deter. We fight. Stop this conversation.”
An exasperated Former Vice President Joe Biden said Trump doesn’t need a parade to show off America’s power.
“If he means rolling missiles down Pennsylvania Avenue, I think it undercuts everything about our power,” Biden said on MSNBC.
“We don’t have to display our power, our physical power. God almighty! The most powerful nation in the history of the world. I don’t know what it is with him,” Biden said.
Even some conservatives were skeptical about the need for the parade.
“I don’t think it’s a particularly good idea. Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told ABC.
The Pentagon is considering linking the parade to a significant event such as Veterans Day, which this year will fall on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
The country’s last military parade in Washington was in 1991 after the first Gulf War.