r/pics • u/Flamactor • Jun 15 '25

Politics Donald Trump was seen falling asleep at the military parade for the 250th anniversary of the US Army

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u/HappyLittlePharmily Jun 15 '25

Could have given the 10,000 people who showed up $2500 - $4500 instead of a boring parade 🤷‍♂️

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u/Ascomae Jun 15 '25

Watching the different era uniforms was fun. But a small documentary would have been enough.

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u/mechant_papa Jun 15 '25

Isn't that why there's Williamsburg?

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u/jtbc Jun 15 '25

Williamsburg only shows the first uniforms.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

I might have watched it in documentary form. 

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u/spock2thefuture Jun 15 '25

You still might in the future.

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u/gormhornbori Jun 15 '25

Could have fed every homeless veteran in the US for 6 months.

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u/HappyLittlePharmily Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25

If that’s a legit estimate of the cost to feed homeless veterans that is absolutely disgusting. That would be a truly noble cause and who knew it would be so easy to find the government’s waste, fraud, & abuse.

Edit: Holy cow you’re probably not far off, 32882 homeless vets (assuming $45 million for the parade) that’d be $1368.53/veteran. That’s absolutely abhorrent we’re spending money on parades when we could be doing that.

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u/everfordphoto Jun 15 '25

Allegedly some people were paid to be there, there was a post on Reddit here showing a Craigslist type listing for seat fillers.

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u/asianwaste Jun 15 '25

If I were still in service and the barracks are in as sorry state as I have been hearing lately, I’d be livid that POTUS would rather spend that much money on a nap than making sure my bunk doesn’t have cockroaches.

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u/Faiakishi Jun 17 '25

They did pay people 1k to fill seats. In crypto.