Donald Trump doesn’t seem to have good luck with the military, at least it hasn’t been his strong suit this week. He made a complete ass out of himself arguing about Agent Orange with veterans, because all he knows about Vietnam is what he saw in a screening of “Apocalypse Now” and even his memory of that is faulty. Then he offended both the intelligence community and the military, not to mention the Senate, when he pulled former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. Admiral William McRaven wrote an editorial demanding that Trump pull his clearance, too. Then the Pentagon rained on his parade, literally, when they said that Trump’s latest narcissistic pipe dream, a glorious military parade honoring him, would cost $92Million, and the idea was promptly shelved. Trump’s answer to that, was the same as his answer to everything, to go on Twitter and lie like crazy, claiming that it was his idea to cancel the parade.
The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up! I will instead…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
….attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date, & go to the Paris parade, celebrating the end of the War, on November 11th. Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we can buy some more jet fighters!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
He sounds like a college kid whose girlfriend dumped him and so he explains that he’s not going to Europe in the summer as planned because he’s decided to do an independent study in particle physics instead. Right.
