Mulvaney on canceled military parade: It wasn't just the money

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By REBECCA MORIN 08/19/2018 10:49 AM EDT

Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said he believes President Donald Trump’s plans for a military parade were canceled for other reasons besides the cost of the event, but would not specify other “contributing factors.”

During an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Mulvaney said he was not in the room when the decision was made to cancel the parade, as he said he would have been had the cancelation been done “purely for fiscal reasons.”

“If the parade had been canceled purely for fiscal reasons, I imagine I would have been in the room when that was made, and I wasn’t,” he said. “So my guess is there were other contributing factors.”

Trump on Friday blamed local politicians, such as Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, for the parade’s cancelation, saying they “wanted a number so ridiculously high” that he was forced to hold off on the event.




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[bucolic_frolic]

1. A parade for that dude would cause an uncontrollable outbreak of nationwide laughter

[HuskyOffset]

17. Damn glad it was cancelled, for health reasons

Had it not been cancelled, I would have simultaneously been laughing my ass off at the rediculous spectacle of Herr Drumpfenfuherer trying to act commanding & regal, and shitting my pants in rage at the thought of all the good and necessary things the $$$ could have been used for instead.


So, yeah. For the sake of my pants, the people around me, and my wash machine, I’m glad it was cancelled.

[Chemisse]

2. The Pentagon announced that it was put on hold and the next day Trump cancelled it.

I just assumed it was a Trumptrum.

[DRoseDARs]

3. "Trumper tantrum" rolls a bit smoother off the tongue, just sayin'...

[Chemisse]

5. Perhaps. They're both rather tough to say.

I suspect attempts at either - without a deliberate mental focus - would leave me speechless, with a bit of drool dribbling out of an open, stuttering mouth.

Lucky we only have to type them.

[DRoseDARs]

7. This gif is pitch perfect either way...

[True Blue American]

15. This is what bugs me

The Media and now, Mulvany are lying that Trump cancelled the Parade. The Pentagon did. I do not think they ever wanted one. Such an enormous waste of money we do not have.

[KG]

4. could be a sign of real weakness that someone told the trumpf he couldn't have something he badly

wanted,

[Mr.Bill]

6. Pretty funny how Mulvaney thinks

they involve him in all the financial decisions. Bless his heart.

[C Moon]

8. He can have his OWN parade:

[rurallib]

12. great idea - for a few hundred Trump can have Mike Pence

push some toy tanks and fly some toy fighter through the Oval Office. Heck, he can have the whole cabinet participate in place of having a meeting where they smooch his honey.

Plus they can all make realistic sounds with their mouths

[C Moon]

13. :D

...and those are Russian and Nazi toy soldiers, so they can have a dictator's parade.

[Mr.Bill]

9. So Trump admits he can be pushed around

by the Mayor of DC.

Priceless.

[tanyev]

10. Sounds like the Pentagon noped out.

[Achilleaze]

11. Honorable military personnel did not want to be forced to salute a five time republican Draft Dodger

Pretty damn simple.

Republicans can just go back to squandering our tax money on luxury golf goof offs for republican billionaires.

[sandensea]

16. +1

The same thing recently happened in Argentina, where Trump's old buddy is wrecking the economy and throwing opponents in jail - but demands yooge military parades.

Basta.

[cstanleytech]

14. My guess is its either one of two things and those are either he was afraid few would show up

because he would be there and he hates rejection or because he was afraid protesters would show up and he hates to think he is unpopular.

[torius]

18. So Mulvaney thinks he would have been included in the decision?

Ha! He thinks he's going to be treated better somehow than the other advisers who are left out of the loop? This guy is an even bigger fool than he seems.

[Maeve]

19. He thinks he's important enough to be in on the decision

Bless his heart...

[NCjack]

20. FAKE president* Trump wants to march the entire route with the troops. But,

a trial walk last week revealed that his bone spurs make that impossible. So, he has cancelled this year's parade, scheduled surgery to correct his feet, and will march in the parade scheduled for next year.

[onenote]

21. A parade less than a week after the midterms?

I can think of a reason why they cancelled.

[Bengus81]

22. Like a comedian stated...If Trump wants a HUGEEEE parade then just RESIGN