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[WiVoter]

1. People Should Take The Money And Not Show Up

This weekend will be historic.

[marybourg]

2. Do you really imagine that the stable genius

will pay BEFORE performance?

[DET]

3. Has To Be Fake

No way would they offer $1,000/person. Also sounds tongue in cheek - although who knows anymore.

[Marie Marie]

5. Paid in "cryptocurrency". Are Trumps worthless meme coins considered cryptocurrency?

[pcdb]

10. It is fake. I'm surprised DU keeps allowing it.

[Marie Marie]

4. Shit. I really wanted to know just how full (or empty) this charade of a parade would be.

I mean, beyond the few remaining moronic "patriots" showing up in their flag apparel, who would attend this horrible misuse of our military?

[choie]

6. Pathetic.

[Ms. Toad]

7. Post at least a half dozen times in the last 24 hours -

almost certainly fake.

How would you contact T. Mellon events to sign up? Hint: It doesn't exist. If you're just supposed to show up - where? How do you identify the person who is supposed to assign you your "seat,"? Are they just going to pay everyone who shows up? As soon as the word gets out, everyone who was going anyway will flock to the person handing out $1000/head.

And finally snopes chimes in, as of 3 hours ago:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/12/trump-craigslist-ad-dc-parade/

[usonian]

8. I bought several bridges in my misspent youth

Now, you only get a virtual piece of one.

[Celerity]

9. the advert is almost certainly a troll move

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/12/trump-craigslist-ad-dc-parade/

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The ad itself was real and was posted on Craigslist (archived) on June 10, 2025. Snopes was unable to definitively confirm whether the ad was a prank or posted by someone from Trump's camp, which is why we've left this claim unrated. However, several elements of the ad suggest it may have been intended as a joke.

First, the company mentioned in the advertisement was listed as T-Mellon Events. Searches for "T-Mellon Events" on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo did not return any results directing us to the supposed company. Instead, they showed news articles and social media posts about the Craigslist ad. The alleged company name could be a reference to billionaire and Trump megadonor Timothy Mellon, heir to Pittsburgh's Mellon banking family.

Snopes also looked into the photo in the ad and found it wasn't taken in the United States. Using RevEye, a reverse image search tool, we found the original image shared by The Associated Press on May 9, 2025, captioned, "Russian servicemen attend the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 9, 2025, during celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II."

The ad also said participants would receive a flat fee of $1,000 paid in cryptocurrency, which could be poking fun at Trump's crypto-related ventures. Fight Fight Fight LLC, the company listed in the ad as providing payment to seat fillers, administers Trump's meme coin. A customer support representative for the meme coin's website, gettrumpmemes.com, told Snopes via an emailed statement: "It's fake, we have nothing to do with it."

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[LAS14]

11. How do we verify that this kind of stuff is not fake? nt