Trump’s Birthday Parade Is a $100 Million Insult to America

A Parade of Corruption, Not Patriotism A $100 MILLION MILITARY PARADE—for Donald Trump’s birthday. Let that sink in. While children go to bed hungry, while schools crumble, while families ration insulin and veterans wait months for care—this administration is throwing a taxpayer-funded ego pageant through the streets of D.C. This isn’t about honoring the U.S. Army. It’s about one man staging a Soviet-style spectacle to worship himself. 6,600 troops, 150 military vehicles, and flyovers—not for the country, but for the cameras. This is what government waste, fraud, and abuse looks like when it’s dressed up in camo and fireworks. And it’s not just the parade. It’s gold-plating the Oval Office because “they don’t make paint like that anymore.” It’s using real eggs for a White House Easter event while American children rely on food banks. It’s gutting HUD, education, and public health—and then demanding a tank battalion salute on Constitution Avenue. You want to talk about respect for the troops? Start by not using them as props. Start by funding their health care, housing, and transition services—not throwing them into parades to satisfy a narcissist’s birthday fantasy. This grotesque spectacle is the moral equivalent of burning public funds in the Rose Garden. Cancel the parade. Cancel the cult. And start doing your damn jobs.