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Donald Trump was unhappy with his sparsely attended military parade over the weekend and blamed it on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, biographer Michael Wolff revealed.

Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a “menacing” show of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday—but got a “festive” parade instead.

“He’s p---ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”

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[-] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 108 points 1 month ago

He's not happy they smiled and waved at the people they signed away their lives to protect.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago

This is how Trump treats the US Army soldiers who were forced to march in front of Trump for a day that was supposed to celebrate them and their accomplishments.

Thank you to the US Army for trying to pit something together that would be fun for US citizens. If it weren't for Trump smearing his shit all over everything I'm sure plenty more would have turned out to show their support as real Americans celebrating real patriots rather than the fascists so many US soldiers have died fighting against.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Didn't see much of it but the uniforms and equipment from every era was hella cool. They actually made it about army history, not a goose-stepping show of force.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 11 points 1 month ago

This is precisely why Trump is so angry

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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

This Presidential outburst is brought to you by:

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[-] Heikki@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Trump Mobile would have been a better sponsor

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 56 points 1 month ago

"He’s p---ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”

The Disaster in Chief doesn't even know what the fuck "hamming it up" means. 🤦‍♂️

[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

And only $46 million down the drain

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

What's that really though - golf trip security and accommodation costs alone for Trump in just his second term thus far have already cost around that. For which he insists the secret service and other support staff use his own golf courses and hotels so that he literally gets paid handsomly to golf & stay at his own resorts (breaking the emoluments clause of the Constitution in the process).

At least none of that $46mil went to Trump & co and the whole affair embarrassed him by the poor turnout and mediocre parade. Money well spent it was not, but at least he hated it.

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 41 points 1 month ago

It's so lovely to hear that he's unhappy!

Hopefully it really hurts his fee-fees that he's despised by anyone with a remotely functioning brain

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately that would take logic. But we'll enjoy his manbaby rage at Drinky Pete anwyay.

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago

Imagine being one of those in his circle, waiting for the dictatorship to become real, and facing summary execution if the Tangerine Toddler decides to throw a tantrum...

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

That's why I think they'll be the ones to assassinate him. Hopefully Caesar style.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 38 points 1 month ago

No one likes you bitch! That's why no one showed up to your backwoods shin-dig. You're a huuuuge orange joke. The likes of which the world has never seen before.

[-] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Guess he'll be trying to outlaw smiling and looking happy now

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 1 month ago

Hegseth, you royally fucked it up. Leaking classified military in a Signal group chat? Excusable. A White Supremacist? Excusable. Drunken paranoia? Excusable. HOW DARE YOU FUCK UP THE PARADE!? Pack your shit up and go back to Fox News.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

What a spoiled baby, whining about how his birthday party didn't live up to his dreams.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

For Trump's next birthday, he will sell a parade of NFTs featuring lilly-white AI-generated military warriors with faces so hard it will make his pussy wet.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Lol. We'll get it right for the next 250th anniversary. Promise! Pinky promise, even!

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

“We had the parade the other day. They said 100 percent chance of rain. It didn’t rain,” Trump told Mark Carney as the Canadian prime minister smiled politely.

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

Kegseth had an important meeting

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

The maga who assassinates lawmakers.

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[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

He’s trying to be a dictator damn it! Why won’t anyone take him seriously? Waaaaah

[-] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Because he's a lollipop head, bitch and nobody is scared of him

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Having read a couple of Michael Wolff's books, I'm both stunned and unsurprised they're letting him wander around the trumpworld again.

He describes first person accounts of the most horrifying, corrupt, disgusting, pathetic episodes of demented rapist assholery and everybody's like "well it's normal". It's amazing.

How any journalist from a corporate news sewer can read these and then write the toothless dreck they do about this administration is plainly a crime.

I wonder what Kim Jong Un’s reaction was when he saw the photos of Trumps dinky little parade

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Dictators always blame others for their failings.

[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

But hegseth is a failure too.

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[-] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"we aren't kings"

Cries when parade isn't dictator-y enough.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

Goose stepping is actually incredibly difficult and has no military value

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This is so fkn hilarious. And I hope those cunts choke to death, that would be boffo.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This is what you get when your hiring criteria is who is the best ass kisser.

[-] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Awwww.... no one showed up to wittle Donnie's birthday party.

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[-] bieren@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

And this is why he will get the us involved in Iran. He needs something to boost his ego after this amazing by failure.

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[-] makyo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't know what to tell you, Turnip, except what we've been saying all along. Hire a bunch of clowns, expect a circus.

[-] ShittDickk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

So their only job is to walk in a straight line, and they pick Alchohegseth to train them? Never could have seen this coming.

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I think he somehow associates their behavior with a lack of discipline. He expected coordinated … 🪿 stepping and unwavering devotion to their CiC who has zero respect for them or something? I can’t wrap my head around whatever circles of logic he tries to use

[-] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

I'm going to say I 100% agree with you. The lunatic wants North Korean style marches and is angry that's not happening.

But I also want to say, what clips I've seen holy crap their marching was abysmal, like I've seen Civil Air Patrol flights with better marching. I'm not military so I can only talk so much, when listening to vets, their comments are along the lines of the people in the parade basically doing a shitty job because "Mandatory Fun Day" as apparently it's called.

Frankly I think that's funny myself.

[-] Demonmariner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Their marching was poor because there is almost no practical reason why anyone in today's Army should ever need to march. The vast majority of service people do very little marching after basic training.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Is this of all things what gets him finally fired?

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 month ago

lol. The first time he almost got fired was because he tried to blackmail the president of Ukraine. The second time, it was because he demanded the governor of Georgia “find votes“ for him so he could win the 2020 election.

And neither of those got him fired. In fact, you may notice that he’s been reelected.

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[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.

If he didn't want soldiers that were excited to be there, then why did he have them screened for political association to make sure they were his supporters?

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[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

HAHAHAHAHA what a fucking toddler. Did they not have enough plain cheese pizza with ketchup for your bday party, you pathetic attention-hungry piece of shit

[-] tektite@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

He didn't want PIZZA! He wanted FRENCH FRIES from MCDONALDS!!! He wanted RONALD to personally cut his burger up for him because it's EMBARRASSING when his MOM does it! He wanted to use the SLIDE but he POOPED on it before he made it to the bottom and that's SOMEONE ELSE'S fault!!!

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

LOL, like it's entirely on the drunkard from Faux.

Did donvict want everyone doing a stupid pose like his ridiculous mugshot photo? Or the one he did for his "presidential" photo?

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