Hey, Donald Trump: You Want To Honor The U.S. Army? How About Giving The Troops A Day Off Instead Of Making Them March For You?

        Okay, everybody knows that the gargantuan, $40-to-$50 million taxpayer funded military extravaganza that Donald Trump is throwing this Saturday, June 14 for his birthday is not to honor the soldiers who are going to be made to parade by him either in the hot June Washington D.C. humidity, or else in the rain that is predicted for that day.

      The drenched, marching troops will swelter in their combat boots and fatigues and the tanks and other military vehicles will crack the streets as they roll by the birthday boy, who is in reality a vain, self-centered old man with a deep need for excessive attention and admiration and a lack of empathy for others. 

       That Trump is claiming to honor our soldiers by using them to satisfy his own vainglory is further proof of his narcissism.
        If Donald Trump really wanted to honor the United States Army on its 250th anniversary, there are many ways he could do so. He could declare a holiday for all members of the Army. He could provide a special holiday dinner in every mess hall all around the world for the soldiers and their families, as is done on Thanksgiving and Christmas.  He could give each soldier an extra week of leave this year. He could give each soldier a bonus. He could arrange a USO-style tour of performers to visit every post to give the troops some entertainment, instead of misusing the troops for his own entertainment. He could declare that this is the year that he would focus on improving veterans' access to health care instead of cutting 80,000 VA doctors, nurses, social workers, staff support and administrators and closing  dozens of VA hospitals around the country.
       Instead Donald Trump is spending all those tens of millions in one afternoon on one parade for himself. Where's DOGE when we need them?
        And speaking of misusing our troops, Trump seizing control of the California National Guard and sending 4,000 Guard troops to Los Angeles to use against people protesting ICE treatment of immigrants is illegal and wrong,

...as is sending 700 U.S. Marines to war against their fellow Americans.

       Those Guard members should be sent back home and the marines back to their base. And someone should tell King Donald that our U.S. Military is not a box of toy soldiers for him to play with and parade around as he pleases. 

References:
https://apnews.com/article/veterans-affairs-cuts-doge-musk-trump-f587a6bc3db6a460e9c357592e165712

https://nurse.org/news/va-fires-nurses-doctors-trump-federal-cuts/

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