No, taxpayers did. He stole the money from us for it.

But his humiliation on the world stage was priceless.

Bernie takes on military ego parade and wins. (parody image by Tom Adelsbach)

Trump stole $45M for that. I demand a refund.

His humiliation was worth it.

That’s questionable also for $45M. We know he’s the laughingstock of the world already anyway!

The US showed a side of the military sloppiness that would have been better to keep out of sight.

Might that have been a form of resistance?

They had 3 weeks to train. A musical band trains for a full year to get it right. You give them too much credit. It was resistance, it was incompetence.

Pretty sure, $25m was just to pay all the actors in the stands.

The parade was a total dud, right? But it was missing one little thing to push it over the top, to make it have the vibe Trump really wanted. Two simple words that change everything: goose stepping. I'm telling you, goose stepping marchers is a game changer. Oh well, next year.

Would be laughable, but taxpayers are stuck with the tab

3x the Suicide prevention $ for the VA! He froze it all anyways! Just like 2017,2018,2019

No...he WASTED taxpayer dollars for his flaccid failure!

Don’t forget Coinbase, Amazon, Lockheed, Palantir and UFC, which picked up most of the tab. These are the enablers.

I didn't know Temu sold things for $45 mil.

Plus whatever he paid Melania.

We pay for him to masturbate! Sorry....not sorry

That would be our tax dollars he doesn’t hesitate spending.

It probably only cost us 30 million and he pocketed the rest.

Plus sponsor $ to steal.

No actually WE spent that, he didn't spend a dime.

He probably made money with his sponsorships.

Just like his presidency .... a total waste.

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And DC will spend millions more repairing the streets. 80F weather and 70 ton tank are great for asphalt.

Doge is on the case as we speak 🕵️‍♂️

The tanks will remain.

Way low. If it cost $134m to deploy 4k national guard and 700 marines to LA - how could the parade cost only 1/3?

Yeah, but we cannot have good healthcare.

Actually, WE spent $45 mil.

Steven Cheung thinks it was money well spent according to his post declaring 250,000 in attendance. Side note - Cheung attended the Sean Spicer School of Crowd Estimation.

45 million down the fkn drain..

OUR $45M!

Haha! The Military Displayed a BIG FUCK 47 in their Marching attitude! While TACO’S Marines were in Los Angeles sending a message to the peaceful protesters, The United States Army was sending a message to TACO! GREAT JOB ARMY!!!

Right!

Gotta say “fuck you” to the poor people I guess. Fun!

of OUR money....the self proclaims super rich guy couldn't even pay for his own birthday party. Time for him to go!

Now we know why he likes social media because he can manipulate that. Everything in real time is a snooze fest.

Wrong...WE spent $45 mil for that, like it or not.

At least. I suspect more.

For this.

But did he?

I was surprised. No banners or bunting. No red right and blue. Just camo and marching, wait, not marching, just walking. lol.

Well, Coinbase was also a "proud" sponsor. Too bad none of them were bright enough to set up a few bleachers for the few who showed up.

As usual, he left someone else with the bill; the taxpayers. He doesn't even pay taxes.

No. We did. The taxpayers.

Trump spent $45M of OUR MONEY.

Waiting for the "don't believe your lying eyes" proclamations that the attendance for yesterday's debacle was the best, hugest, most attended event ever in the history the world.

Kinda explains the multiple bankruptcies, doesn’t it.

I saw an article this morning that said 2% of Americans turned out for no Kings protests. A mega supporter responded that's an awfully tiny number. Well, According to the Census the US population 6/04/2025 was: 341,940,856. 2% is 6,838,817. That's a lot of people.

Alt Nat Parks has been compiling the numbers, and this morning reports 12 million, with reports still xoming in

He seems to have to pay for or threaten people for attention. Please someone study his brain upon autopsy. Anterior Cingular cortex damage amongst more. This can be addressed in the future 🙏🏼

Nah 40 million for the parade 5 million went to Melania

That’s a lot of school lunches Joyce

https://bsky.app/profile/missingthept.bsky.social/post/3lrnestmeid2p

The behavior of the others says it all - no fun with this group. No one dare do anything, including melania, without trumps permission.

He should've spent another $6 or so to buy oil for the squeaky tanks.

I know, right?! bsky.app/profile/real...

Bet the Chinese parade cost less

Money for Nothin’ 🎶

🥵

Nice job making room for the quality spending fElon!

Spent a fortune, just to show how weak, unpopular, and incompetent he is.

and then he fell asleep multiple times. Once while standing.

They certainly didn’t spend it on the cake.

Come on! The Pentagon City Costco makes great birthday cakes!😊

Costco would refuse to make that cake and do a much better job than whoever made that one.

Is that for real??

This cake appears to be made by a middle school home ec class. SAD!

First thing I thought of!

Some of the corporate sponsors. One of them ran a military themed ad on the Jumbotrons right after Trump spoke - selling military jeeps.

Who keeps the books, Charles Kushner? You know how they count...1 for you.. 1, 2 for me, 1 for you...1, 2, 3 for me. $15M for that perade and $30M for whoever has the biggest pockets. 🤷‍♀️

Yeah. Nearly half the budget for America250. I guess by the time next year rolls around we’ll only get some black cat fire works and Bribe Force One static on the mall. Way to screw up our 250th birthday USA. You hired the guy who bankrupted a casino! A casino Carl!!

It’s probably much more, you cannot trust them.

Naw, taxpayers did. And it'll wind up being closer to 48-$100 million.

He stole our checkbook and spent our money on that!

$45 is a low estimate. Count the hotels, the businesses, the airport which were shut down….

We did. 🥵

Can you imagine the troop morale today?

No. WE THE PEOPLE spent $45M for that pathetic debacle of an ego trip. That tightwad wouldn't spend a nickel of his own money...

And don’t forget the weekly $10M for his pathetic golf games.

No, we did.

Limp like our GOP.

no, we did. 😢🤬

No, we, the people spent $45 million on that!

Sorry, not to be rude, but WE spent 45 Mil

Makes more sense when you consider he paid $130,000 for 30 seconds with Stormy Daniels

You mean he fucked her twice?

I think this compilation says it all (sound up) www.tiktok.com/@appleuser87...

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not his money 🤷

No, the taxpayers did, unfortunately.

&: “Oracle, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Coinbase & Amazon hv …donated to America250, the nonprofit raising funds for the nation’s semiquincentennial anniv,..”Many of these sponsors will support the … grand military parade being held in DC, on Sat, June 14, to celebrate the US Army’s 250th bday..”

This cost is primarily paid for by taxpayers, as the celebration is funded by the Army's budget.

Not his money so he couldn’t GAF.

🤷🏻‍♀️

army funds. never should have relocated and become so excessive.

Here's a photo that I don't think he wants us to see 🤣

The tanks paraded but the parade tanked.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The photos - live video of the trump-hand size crowd That says it all Did trump forget to provide the $50 incentives for his 'admirers'? It kinda fooled people that time - at least for the Fox viewers

Love it!!

And Trump looked angry (due to low turnout) and bored (wondering why he wasn't out golfing instead).

Men spend really a lot of money on you know what.

She’s just as bad as he is! No sympathy whatsoever.

Can we get a refund?

Vanity.

Nothing. Hot air.

Yep.

Trump is now the kid who invited the whole class to his birthday party and nobody came because he eats his own boogers.

He spent it, we paid for it. What a crock.

No. We did.

Nope. WE spent that!

Yes, spent $45 million on a place to go to sleep where nobody would see him.

Chump spent 0. We picked up this tab.

This is the guy we threw a birthday party for. He did all this:

Trump doesn't spend it. WE, the American taxpayers, spent it.

A concept of a parade

Honestly, I worry about where the rest of the tanks were going. I saw trainloads of tanks in transit and only a few dozen in the shame parade. How much of the materiel and money went to other purposes?

It’s always easy to spend other people’s money.

Yup, wasted money.

$4,000 per attendee?

You know, he's never been good with money.

Pitiful, sad, horrible waste of money, and our heroes.

Burning American Cash.

He wasted $45million of our money

No. WE spent $45 mil for that. He pays little to nothing in taxes. 🤷‍♂️

Yup. A pathetic vulgarity. Right down to having troops marching out of step to the war protest song, Fortunate Son. It was truly a disgrace.

Well, we did.

And yet, there were inbred cult members who will soon lose their health insurance and access to Medicaid celebrating his expensive birthday parade. Some folks u just can't help. #Trump #NoKings

WE spent $45 mil for that.

No. Trump paid bupkis. We, the People attending the rallies against the orange monster, paid for that fiasco of a birthday party. #nokings

Not sure where all that $45 mil went...but it wasn't spent on THAT parade 😂

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"Well, Melania needed to make her rate..." 🤷🏾‍♂️

No, we did.

Just so sad. Could have paid for snap benefits.

When will they have the confirmed assessment of damage to streets?

Did you think he was somehow good with money?

It’s not like we can return it🥴

Well, in fairness, it was your and my $45 million, not his…

Add in the cost of road repairs the heavy equipment damaged, and you’re looking at $92-95 million.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 a very costly fart with a smell 🤣🤣🤣

Waste, fraud, AND abuse.

When you order a parade from Temu

trump spent OUR 45 million for that!

Yeah. My dad, who has dementia, saw a small part of the parade. I sat with him, we discussed Flag Day, his service (Navy.) He said he wasn't too tired, he'd watch some. Media kept breaking in to explain what tank had just gone by, dad laughed and decided he was tired after all.

So there will be no free lunch for children at school. Another art of the deal.

While the children that women were forced into birthing starve and can't get life saving health care. Either can their mothers.

In Philly #nokings

Huge waste of money! They should have spent that to actually help military families instead.

It isn’t his money, he doesn’t care. 🤬

Waste

And then Little Marco has the gall to yawn!

Trump abandoned Ukraine and NATO. He takes orders from Russia and the Chinese are eating our lunch! He uses the excess money to suppress U.S. Citizens instead. And his MAGA cult cheers him on! INSANE!

And he looks so happy.

That money could have bought a lot of meals for homeless vets 🇺🇸

Just wait…Faux News and the right wing bubble will start showing overhead shots of No Kings protests…claiming “millions” turned out for Mango Mussolini’s Birthday…

Ego stroking. And he looked miserable. He’s a toddler.

I guess that’s what you get when you plan your own birthday party. A BIG EFFING SURPRISE 😳😮

No Kings did WAY better for free. More people. More fun. Better signs.

That’s cause they knew what they were doing! This convicted felon doesn’t and never did.

It was a nice parade for the Army. Too bad dickhead had to bastardize it like he does so many other American traditions.

Six Bankruptcies have shown he is incapable of strategic execution & ROI… He just pisses away other people’s money!!

He didn't spend a nickel of his own money on it, but exposing how utterly clueless and hated he actually is was priceless.

The pics from everyone are enough. So glad I didn’t waste my time (not that I would’ve 😉).

Our tax dollars on that, yes.

A "Planning Company" that Trump and Co. own gets most of the money and then stiffs all the contractors and services down the line, I bet.

$45M of *our* money - but we can’t afford food stamps or Medicaid.

Well, that was with the money that was left over after he took his cut.....

Trump spent $45M to confirm he doesn't have a clue about what makes America great.

You could look at it that way, or......

Well……maybe! But a worthwhile bargain…..?????

Yup.

He had the runs…lol

😂😂 Agree!!!!

I read one comment on YouTube that summed it up well: "He always looks like he's on the toilet,"

LMFAOOOO

🤣🌮🤣

😂👍

Walt has a concerned look on his face…Dear Leader are you ok? You don’t appear to be well. Can I order a drone strike on No Kings protesters to brighten your day?

😂😂

what a loser

and he looked completely miserable through the entire spectacle. They all did in the video I saw. 😼

He’s a miserable pos

I heard it was closer to $80 million at the end of the day

I expect if you follow the money probably half ended up in the pocket of a "event planning company" that someone in his family runs.

Just like his inaugural ball celebration in 2017.

Don’t forget Melania

As George Washington said: parades are for pussies.

5 for the "puraid", 40 mil in kickbacks. That's how it works.

Snooze-fest. Low energy. It would have been better spent on research for children's cancer. What a louse.

$10 million for balloons

He’s known for his deal making.

To be humiliated and show the entire world once again that he is a loser

Pathetic huh?

Trump is not only wasteful with his own money, but that's nothing compared to taxpayer dollars being wasted and also given away to the wealthy.

45 mil of OUR money. Disgraceful.

Agree 🤷‍♀️

Don't forget how many millions it'll cost to repair the damage done to the roads.

How much did he spend per attendee?

He has no limits when it comes to spending other people’s money. He should have to pay from his own pocket for once!

Cognitive dissonance is probably pretty high 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Parades Suck

All this and no WD-40?

He wanted this…

It was a “concept of a parade.”

Wasted $45 mil

$20 mil to Melania for showing up.

Even that wasn’t worth seeing.

You know half of everything he gets his tiny hands on goes into his pockets. So that and fixing the roads they likely destroyed with the heavy equipment.

It showed America 🇺🇸 that we don’t want military parades or a king! Let’s be honest. They don’t care about spending our money. They are creating huge debt but as long as it’s for the mafia family and rich friends- they don’t have a fiscal policy. Poor to rich. All R congress is complicit

So close. I spent $4.50 for parking to March in Madison! :)

What was the split between funds from the People and Coinbase?

Remember the sketchy finances from the inauguration where Melania and her bestie threw each other under the bus when people started asking questions about what all the money was spent on? I'm seeing a pattern.

correction: WE spent 45M.

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social In the 60's there was an Army history show at Ft. Meyer just outside of DC. Held during Cherry Blossom Season by the units that were in the sad parade, it had the same pace, # of horses and guns as a Wild West Show, didn't cost $45M, had no tanks, but had cannon fire!

At least.

How much did he keep? I bet he didn’t even pay much for it. He thinks it’s his money. 🙄

It's ok it's your money not his