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highplainsdem

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Wed Jan 18, 2017, 09:52 AM Jan 2017

Trump thinks "being a great president" means more military displays/parades in American cities [View all]

This tidbit of his longing for fascist-style military parades was buried near the end of a Washington Post article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-donald-trump-came-up-with-make-america-great-again/2017/01/17/fb6acf5e-dbf7-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html

All of which raises the questions: How can greatness be measured and sensed? What does it even mean?

“Being a great president has to do with a lot of things, but one of them is being a great cheerleader for the country,” Trump said. “And we’re going to show the people as we build up our military, we’re going to display our military.

“That military may come marching down Pennsylvania Avenue. That military may be flying over New York City and Washington, D.C., for parades. I mean, we’re going to be showing our military,” he added.
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Oh Goody... Zoonart Jan 2017 #1
Well, he can just go to any NFL game . . . . hatrack Jan 2017 #2
That military that he dodged 5 times? Freedomofspeech Jan 2017 #3
How long until we parade our nukes? You know, military pride and all Docreed2003 Jan 2017 #4
OH goodie! We get to emulate North Korea! yuiyoshida Jan 2017 #6
Like May Day at Red Square! Haul out the hardware... VOX Jan 2017 #16
The Parades of Despots. madaboutharry Jan 2017 #5
Trump is modeling putin in so many ways Gothmog Jan 2017 #7
Oh yes, we've got to have parades dalton99a Jan 2017 #8
I wonder where Putin will sit? Botany Jan 2017 #9
And he'll do it on May 1st muriel_volestrangler Jan 2017 #10
Angry white men again! n/t RKP5637 Jan 2017 #11
jeebus. maybe we should rename it- mopinko Jan 2017 #20
god, this man is really off his rocker bdamomma Jan 2017 #12
Maybe he'll ask our parading troops to goose-step... VOX Jan 2017 #13
according to an ex wife Trump kept copies of Hitler's speeches by his bed Botany Jan 2017 #23
How very Putinesque! Snarkoleptic Jan 2017 #14
Spoken like a true dictator. democratisphere Jan 2017 #15
Dictators like to be surrounded by generals dalton99a Jan 2017 #19
Comrade Trump wants to copy Russia's military parades. nt procon Jan 2017 #17
Yep. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2017 #18
so i'm guessing he has never been to an air show. mopinko Jan 2017 #21
When do the Russians display their hardware? uponit7771 Jan 2017 #22
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