the two songs the band (wherever the band was, i believe this was a live band) played before and after this were "Jump" (Van Halen) and Enter Sandman

No wonder the soldiers couldn’t march in cadence. That music is awful.

a song encouraging someone to commit suicide and a song about having nightmares

The band performing is The U.S. Army Band Downrange, & their setlist was: Four EW&F songs to start Hard to Handle About Damn Time Vertigo My Hero Barracuda & Magic Man The Ocean Jump Fortunate Son Enter Sandman Sweet Child O'Mine Right Now Separate Ways Be All That You Can Be

Timothy Burke….just so you know it was Earl Carter who wrote the Army slogan song and Jake Holmes wrote Dazed & Confused. Not a Led Zep song but a cover.

Malicious compliance

The marchers aren't even in step.

Big fans of teen comedy trailers from the 00s with the SR-71 pick

@vanillevlapakhuis.bsky.social, jij kent deze nummers ongetwijfeld.

Right now….the SR-71 song?!

The Van Hagar song, I think

Two songs by Heart, a band that relocated from Seattle to Canada to spare their guitarist & manager from being drafted. Yeah, I cannot believe the Wilson sisters approved of the Army using their music. [Googles] Nope, they did not.

Rich that they played Fortunate Son.

“The Ocean” is a very strange song to play at a military parade. I say that as a major Zep fan.

It was actually Good Times Bad Times->The Ocean, which is even stranger

I'd say add "war pigs" next year.

The band should have played “Paint It Black” & “Bad Moon Rising”! But, there was almost no one there to hear the music. How sad…😎

Does anyone understand this?

I don't know my Led Zep songs very well & so while I knew that riff was from Houses of the Holy I didn't know if it was Dazed & Confused or The Ocean & that's how I learned that the guy who wrote the song Dazed & Confused also wrote the song & jingle "Be All You Can Be" for the U.S. Army

It was Good Times Bad Times from their first album

NOOOOO!! How dare they.....

Easier to march to than "The Ocean" at least

You can be reasonably assured that every piece of good music out of the 60s was antiwar and anti-silver spoon mother fuckers like Trump

Yup, I grew up in the 60s and still love the music from that era. The, to me, quintesential song from back then will always be the Country Joe and the Fish song "The I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag". "Don't ask me I don't give a damn the next stop is Viet Nam." Worth a listen...

Even the Monkees! The Last Train To Clarksville was a subtle antiwar song they snuck by the studio censors.

Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah But when the taxman comes to the door The house look a like a rummage sale It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one

I say the same every time the chuckleheaded MAGATs screech out Born In The USA. It against the Viet Nam war you dipshits.

Actually, it’s about working class struggles (like most of his oeuvre) through the prism of a viet nam vet, and I won’t call you a dipshit

Yes, "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen is widely considered a protest song, despite its common misinterpretation as a patriotic anthem. The song addresses the struggles of a Vietnam War veteran and critiques the way the nation treated returning soldiers.

So sayeth AI 😀 I was at the LA concert in 1981, a benefit for vets, amidst a nasty recession and stagflation; no jobs; the rich getting tax breaks under Reagan’s trickle down pissing on the working class This was the backdrop for 1984’s “Born in the USA” The war n protests had been over for 9 yrs

Guess you didn't hear this at your concert. Ant-war Bruce. youtu.be/FrMMzJMaQZ4?...

The brother of the guy who tutored him on guitar was one of those who didn't come back, as was the drummer in the Castiles, his first band

So did NPR but it was too long to post.

I'm from the Jersey shore and have seen him often. Even to just show up to jam at a bar. So your 1 concert isn't the be all and end all. But you continue to believe what you want to. I'll will believe what he has said in numerous concerts. And especially in his live album from this early years.

My first Boss concert was at Le Garage in Beach Haven, circa 1973ish

Credence Clearwater Revival (CCR) Fortunate Son either it was a dig at Bone Spurs or someone didn’t know what that song was about

Surely there's nobody who doesn't know what that song is about. I'm a menopausal woman in The Netherlands and I think I've always known what it was about. In fact, CCR played it in a free open-air concert in our town a few years ago.

We are talking about MAGAt felon and his cult. Brain cells aren’t exactly firing on all cylinders for them.

There are people who were around when Rage Against The Machine first started who are only just recently figuring out that the songs are political I have no doubt there are plenty of people who have no clue about Fortunate Son no matter how many times they've heard it

both, the person who chose it knew, the person who approved it didnt.

Any bets the approval “authority” was Pickled Pete?

They knew

They didn’t know the song. They probably asked AI for a list of military songs and since Fortunate Son is like the anthem of the Vietnam War, they picked it without knowing the words.

Trump probably heard it attached to some bang bang news footage from the Vietnam War.

Do you mean they asked A one?

Trump loves that song & played it repeatedly at rallies & reportedly plays it at maralago in his personal playlist that he has people listen to at dinner. He obviously does not actually listen to the words.

Bingo

MAGA just failed again. Lyrics? Are there lyrics?

One of my favorite songs. We used to play that in a rock band. I played guitar and took care of the lead vocal. Those were the days! 😃 And Yes: MAGA failed, again. 😎 Lyrics: genius.com/Creedence-cl...

We performed the song, too. But I preferred not to sing. 😆 Congratulations on your voice! I still feel a deeply moving emotion when I hear Fortunate Son. Thank you, John Fogerty. It must have been intentional that it was played.

Prob a bit of BOTH. Dumald is INFAMOUSLY Lyrics Iilliterate* (Likes the tune has NO IDEA what song is ABOUT. ++++++ Sure there’s SOME folk in almost EVERY entertainment Planning Committee he’s HAD? Who hates his GUTS & are secretly trolling Playlist Selection. *Might just be STRAIGHT illiterate

They might have used ai for a list of patriotic songs and it fucked up 😂 they probably had Born in the USA and had to cut it

well, several someones had to approve the song list, i’m sure. just like the Les Mis choice at the WH Dinner, this may be a mix of subversion at the source and ignorance in the chain of command.

I was thinking the same. Trump was about as uncool as someone could be when he was young, and had no apparent awareness of what was going on in this country during the civil rights conflicts or Nam. He admired Nixon.

Well he compared Vietnam to having unprotected sex soooooo

This might weird you out (I certainly was), but apparently Trump really likes Les Misérables.

no weirder than when i found out Paul Ryan loved Rage Against the Machine

I love whoever added Fortunate Son and I hope someday we can celebrate their subversion. Someday it will all come out 🌅

I bet they planned to use Born in the USA but someone remembered it was written by The Boss and MAGAt felon “hates” him today.

They could have gone for “War Pigs” and that lot wouldn’t have clued in.

MAGAt felon has often ILLEGALLY used it on his campaigns so it was probably used for that reason. It’s not like MAGAt felon knows what the song is about

I think that the only intentional thing is the stupid ditty.

Well you k it is he didn’t HATE The Boss Born In The USA would definitely have been in there

* know if he* We REALLY need an edit button

We need an edit button for our government, waiting for the next election is a very iffy proposition.

Much room for chain of command ignorance.

An ocean.

Especially now

They did know what the song was.

OR maybe they did. Guaranteed MAGAt felon does NOT

He likes that song. Because he has no self-awareness at all.

Very true. Same for his cult.

That is what kills me. I really wish people would listen to the lyrics and have some basic comprehension skills. He hates Bruce. Otherwise, they would have played Born In The USA as a patriotic song.

You’re right about The Boss.

They knew.

I think it's unironic. Please direct your attention to exhibit A, Wrangler ad 2002: youtu.be/eaPTL-1yphQ?... This unironic patriotic co-opting of protest music has been going on full steam since 9/11/01

Dear God. The amount of stupid people doing stupid things is amazing.

Well it's just life's unanswerable question, that quiz for the ages. Why do bad things happen to good people...why do good things happen to bad people. Why do dumb things happen to stupid people?

In the ad, the song is trimmed down to the opening guitar, followed by "Some folks are born made to wave the flag, ooh that red white and blue", followed immediately by a quick edit to the bridge.

Well, just like Raygun playing "Born in the USA" all the time...wingers and irony don't mix LOL

Well they do really like the Village People YMCA. So there's that to lead one in the direction of how to understand the understandable!!!!

Wouldn’t that be awesome if it was a dig? Like Les Mis for that state dinner spectacle 😂👏🏻👏🏻💙

At first I thought it was a dig at bone spurs but it turns out Trump plays it at his rallies. When it was written it was a dig at people like Trump and "W" but not specifically. www.mediaite.com/media/entert...

Aw bummer

Whoever chose this song, chose to rebel. It's aimed at Trumpolini and his court.

He played it often at his rallies the first time around. Part of his aim is also to humiliate US on world stage.

Most right wingers have no idea what the song is about. A few years ago this happened at a trump rally (2020). If it was a calculated dig, I’m damn impressed.

I hope lots of people are explaining that to him because there is no way he will understand until he has been told 10 times

And even then …

Nah they’re running for cover. He’d probably order them shot.

Hope they tell him what YMCA is about while they're at it.

well as this is the guy fascinated by the size of a golfer's penis maybe he does know

That’s because he hasn’t been able to find HIS is decades of ever

With crayons and short words :)

Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah But when the taxman comes to the door The house look a like a rummage sale 'this is you telling the tax man your properties are not worth much sir'

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son.

No. That dumbfuck used that song in his rallies. The dude just don't know the meaning of lyrics in that song. youtube.com/shorts/TPSPa...

B'cos listening to more than just the chorus would take too much brain power.

If you look at the meaning of most all these songs, I think the choices were very intentional and a big FU.

MAGAts seem to think Born in the USA is a joyful American anthem. And, surely, someone has explained YMCA to him by now.

Same ppl who have an annual meltdown learning Rage Against the Machine's meaning.

I'd say they must have, but gosh darn it, it's just so catchy! 😔😋

I like to think it's something like closeted humanity and subconscious guilt seeping out around their walls of sociopathic fear and denial

Maybe the MAGAts listening to Bruce Springsteen should actually listen to him youtu.be/byQdYoXKNys

Reagan famously said he was a fan of the song, too (because also didn't pay attention to the lyrics).

We were at a diner that had those old timey table juke boxes and my girls dad played Bruce and the guy next to us said “shame, he went from Born in the USA to America hater”. My girls dad explained the song to the guy and he nearly looked like he was gonna cry. He really didn’t know. Crazy.

Surprised they did not include Born in the USA….

It was played by a young man at the protest in Harrisburg…

He HATES The Boss sooooooo

🤣🤣 my guess is both! Just like trump going to see Les Misérables........ he had no clue, so he likely picked out the song himself too!

He doesn't pick anything except his nose. He's so drugged most of the time he can't choose his own meals.

And definitely doesn’t use his gold plated toilet by himself. Probably hasn’t wiped his own azz is decades

They could have added Woody Guthrie's "Old man Trump" as well.

I need to erase this information from my mind immediately. One of my favorite songs how dare they

It almost feels like Fortunate Son was selected to target Don Taco.

Yes!

He also wrote anti-George Bush songs & recorded them on his own album! He contained multitudes

I'm sorry, I should have clarified that I'm mainly upset about the use of Led Zeppelin here

Ah. Valid. Indeed.

Jake Holmes singing Dazed and Confused is fantastic if you've never heard it www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsv...

damn this is like shoegaze decades early

Wow za thank you!!

omfg and the I'm a Pepper jingle

I thought that one was Barry Manilow.

Manilow performed an earlier Dr. Pepper jingle (written by Holmes and Randy Newman) but didn't write it. Manilow did write "You Deserve a Break Today" (McDonald's) and "Stuck on Band-Aid" — both bangers.

WHAT

😳👍

Robert Plant re-used a lot of ex-Zeppelin riffs on his song “Tall Cool One” Great song from his solo years!!!

Fortunate Son? That's right up there with Reagan playing Born in the USA

Right??? And tRUmp used to play it too til Bruce put an end to it 😂

Fortunate Son en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna...

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Original performers of these songs saying "we never gave our permission for this" in 5...4...3....

Oh Fogerty sued the 🍊 felon over using the song on the campaign trailer. They used the muzak instrumental versions of the songs so my guess is a public domain grayish area.

Lyrics to My Hero: Don't the best of them bleed it out While the rest of them peter out? Truth or consequence, say it aloud Use that evidence, race it around

Someone needs to post all of the karaoke songs from the parade. I heard it was pretty funny.

Presume Born in the USA would have been on it too if trump hadn't had a baby tantrum about Springsteen?

They also played For What's it's worth (album version) sometime before the show. The setlist was made by an ally.

About Damn Time? Seriously?? That song's basically about going out with your squad to party after a stressful week. Do they only read the titles of the songs? Though that wouldn't explain Enter Sandman or Sweet Child o' Mine.

Fortunate Son is also ridiculous, of course. But so is nearly everything else about this setlist.

No Kid Rock?

genuinely impressed they didn't play Born in the USA

or Long Walk Home 😂 Trump is trying to pick a fight with a man of substance & style who is far tougher and smarter, Bruce Springsteen

It’s 100% purely because of Trumps cuck Twitter spat with Bruce

I count four bands that are gonna sue for sure.

I keep watching this and I think a good interpretation of this is the middle finger shuffle

There were no traditional marches?

Right? Where's the Sousa? Is it even a parade in the US without at least one Sousa march?

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🥲

Sorry to be pedantic but the Led Zeppelin song they played was Good Time Bad Times. =)

Please tell me Van Halen is not ok with this? 🤬@wolfiesmom.bsky.social

For a Guns N Roses track they should have chosen the Civil War.

Ans from Metallica they should have chosen "One".

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The Ocean followed by Jump. Sound advice.

No Ave Maria? How could they not play the head moron's song?

Aha. I assumed it was all sound-alike pseudo-covers. The band is quite talented, but I wonder if Sec. Hegseth is familiar with their repertoire from the first Trump term ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2iq...

I suppose they played Right Now by Van Halen but how wonderful would it be if it was Right Now by Akon? www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIaH...

I dunno. Given the current situation in Los Angeles , the lines "And when the band plays "Hail to the chief" Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord" seems kinda on point.

Kudos to the person who created that set list

This is a remarkably random setlist. I suspect all to provide cover for this magnificent gem.

No, this is an amazing "Malicious Compliance" set list.

I love how they slipped some Lizzo in there.

Also, there’s soooooo little gravitas in this setlist, and the most marchable song here is by Lizzo.

I love Heart, but playing Barracuda and Magic Man when they were draft dodgers to Canada...🤣

As a VN vet, I prefer the term "war resister" over "draft dodger" for those who went to Canada to avoid being dragged into fighting a war they didn't believe in

Nothing personal meant by it. That's the term the band has used over the years when discussing it. Thank you for your service!

that's a great setlist and i hope whoever chose it was trolling them

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SEPARATE WAYS??? Jesus.

Gotta love a band just playing a song, not giving a shit about the optics of it

Es sieht so aus, als wären sich die Soldaten der Lächerlichkeit der Aufführung bewusst. Oder soll das amerikanische Leichtigkeit symbolisieren? Dieser Aufzug ist auf so vielen Ebenen abstoßend, genau wie die amerikanische Regierung, rund um einen orangefarbenen Clown. 🫶

hopefully they started with Earth Wind and Fire's "Fantasy"

Separate Ways is an extremely aggressive choice.

I cannot stress enough that “It’s about damn time” was like that old SNL middle school music teacher pop song bit. bsky.app/profile/bria...

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What garbage! It looks like goofy club.

Lucky they didn’t get deported for “uno, dos, tres, catorce.”

I only watched a couple of minutes here and there, but I swore I heard the opening chords of Zeppelin's Immigrant song at one point. That would have been another great troll.

that was barracuda

Fortunate Son? Fortunate Son? What in the Jumping Jesus Toast Christ on a Motherfucking Pogo Stick?

We’ve jumped the shark. If you tried pitching this story as a movie or tv show, they’d be rolling their eyes at how over the top unbelievable it is.

If you were picking music that was difficulty to march to…

MSG Chad Leader and co did a fine job

Methinks some artists are not happy about this. And while John Fogerty is prob pissed, their apparent not understanding the lyrics to Fortunate Son is hilarious….

What a rag tag bunch

Only he gets it. The army that has lost all wars since 2nd world war looks exactly like a bunch of inmates goin to make slave work.

So, I’m sitting here thinking about my tax dollars paying ($&@?) for this instead of helping to pay for someone’s else’s much needed medicine. 😑

Were any of these songs written in this century? 🤣

No, but many are Viet Nam anti-war songs. Army band 'Downrange' apparently is voicing its own quiet dissent about the parade

Nice. Perfect trolling. 😎 youtube.com/shorts/w63wZ...

🤣 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna...

Vertigo guess he doesn’t know Bono hates him too

I wonder how many of those were preapproved by the artists?

Were they all the karaoke versions like this?

When you can’t get the rights to songs you want.

This just can not be real

This is very similar to the playlist at my kid's elementary school robotics tournament years ago.

Heart should definitely sue.

Just guessing that 'Downrange' chose its setlist as a form of quiet internal dissent.😎 Rock'n'Roll explains the world.🫣

Keep on rockin' in the free world

This just sounds like some random Gen Xers playlist

Also they 100% would’ve played Born in the USA if it wasn’t for the Trump tantrum against Bruce a couple weeks back

As a Rocker/Metalhead I have to say that's a quite good playlist. 🤘 And full of artists that despite the orange clown for sure. 🤣

Sadly they missed Bulls on Parade by Rage Against the Machine. That would have been the cherry on top!

Couldn't even get the rights to the song. Had to use the 1998 WCW wrestler entrance music style

So did they all jump and touch the Hokie Stone afterwards

Gulf War butt-rock playlist

hey "Jump" is an awesome song. Van Halen's and Kris Kross'

Edward Van Halen, an immigrant whose family was chased out of his home country for being part Asian and who was bullied as a child by white kids in the United States, surely would have approved

Wiggity wiggity wiggity wack (Is that the correct number of wiggities?)

Followed.

confirmed

Also the Pointer Sisters

And XTC

Did they play Majors and Generals?

Van halen and Metallica aren’t butt rock 😤

sorry my dude, but the platonic ideal of butt rock is still butt rock

You made me cackle and I am very proud of that

People showed up to the Gulf War parade. And it was on a school night.

Fortunate son was a Vietnam protest song

I dated a Navy man a while back that was in first one as medic. He would help with the wild psychotropic music to blast at enemy. They would put on shit like Diamanda Galas to freak them out.🔥

JC , I just to had to find a song from her ….. 👀

She screams a lot in her early stuff.😂😂😂

The I heard was whispering … creeepy af

Her whispering was used as Foley in the 1990s Coppola dracula.

🙏

That tracks. I don't know why, but it just seems right.

Cool!

Your ex knew his shit!

He was a music guy.😂

There is no way Van Halen or Metallica would approve of this at all. Like Lars ulrich would spit at the thought (he’s from Denmark…)

Always a great idea to play a song by a band with such flag-waving hits as "Disposable Heroes" and "One"

I know Metallica is gearing up for another lawsuit

I'm hoping whoever picked the music *did* listen to the words.

As they did for YMCA ?

The soldiers are listening, I can promise you that.

the song playing in the video is Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival but i didn't hear any lyrics. the song is a protest song against sending the poor to die in Vietnam.

Some saboteur chose that for one of his 2020 rallies too--

The rich boys all had #bonespurs.

Metallica are anti war last I checked

Yep. Live Army band. That guitarist with the video game tone was way out over his skis.

Born in the U.S.A. and War Pigs too on the nose?

Meanwhile they aren't even marching in step. What a fucking embarrassment

Should have had the words, with the Circle Jerks cover version. I wonder if Kim Jun Un has days like this 🤔

ah yes, classic marching songs

Which would help explain why that's the sloppiest parade marching I've ever seen. They look like they're slouching forward in half step.

I forget what the type of marching they’re doing is called—military life for me was very short and very long ago—but it’s the relaxed “We’re only walking from A to B; it’s not formal, just keep your basic fuckin’ posture together,” march. So they didn’t even bother with ANY parade marching.

I think it's at ease march? Everything else would require a proper step.

Yes, that thing. It requires being in rank and file and carrying a military bearing, but that’s about it. No lockstep, no rigid motions, just casual sauntering

You've misspelled wankfest

I mean, you'd have to have someone calling cadence (music's too loud) or a band playing marches. I suspect the intent was actual marching, but they of course flubbed it.

Sousa was RIGHT THERE. Victim of his own success really.

lol yeah “why the fuck am I here” energy aside, the rhythm and tempo of those songs is completely unmarchable

It's not like the US produced the greatest composer of marching music in history or he's our most famous composer or anything. That would be *really* embarassing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jo...

can practically feel the marching

hell, I'd even settle for the "Keeping Up Appearances" theme

Yes! I call it shmlarching

Yea. Enter Sandman. Let's protect every single kid in this nation - by playing a song about alien of some kind kidnapping the damn kid in some type of Monster Inc B movie horror shit.

They’ve said it’s about crib death/SIDS. Not any better

Just... like bad bar band versions omg

I’m convinced this shit music is AI generated until proven otherwise.

nah it’s the original chatgpt: bad cover bands

Hey now, if we had more bad cover bands acting as social lubricant we’d be in a way better place right now. I remember cooking at a bar when I was 19 that booked a band that could not play La Grange by ZZ Top without the drummer turning it into a polka and I miss those days so hard.

fuck that’s so good. you need that kinda thing at bars definitely. bad cover bands were the perfect iteration, chatgpt is too far, we must retvrn

Yes! We must go back to the days of half-assedly working on those night moves.

…because Trump and his minions are usually on top of shit?

Of course, "Jump" was inspired by a rooftop suicide that David Lee Roth saw on TV. Never heard that song the same way again.

No “Born In The USA”?

And Trump will be sued for illegally using them without musician consent just like he always is.

Also it sounds like they’re broadcasting cheering along with the music? Because there’s definitely nobody cheering in the video.

so only the worst of based White male anthems

Disgrace to rock and roll

Live band was awesome Parade was great! Love the US Army!!

How unmartial. They look like a contingent of recently released prisoners of war.

They had to get the (pretty mid) cover band because Fogerty filed a C&D against them already guitar.com/news/music-n...

The more I learn about John Fogerty the more I see him as, not only a talented artist, but a helluva patriot and a stellar human being🇺🇸

This is either epic trolling or epic failure. Either way I love it.

I think it trolling. That and a lot of 'not tight' marching tells me that this was a widespread protest by a lot of participants to being used as props in Trump's narcissistic fantasy wetdream. I think I love that they are thinking feeling humans who found a way to show it but avoid trouble.

I was just thinking, that ain't marching; that's strolling. Good choice.

I believe they know Trump doesn't know the difference.

And they aren't even trying to march in step. It's like the formation version of flipping the finger!!!

What even is this?

The most lackluster marching I've ever seen

To be fair, marching isn’t really a priority outside of basic training

I'm totally getting that vibe.

Former marching band kid here, they can’t march in time because it’s way too fast. And if they did march in time, it would look silly

Yeah but they aren't even in step with each other with the exception of a single group of them

yeah but when they march, they typically have someone keeping time. When trained to march, you always have someone singing to keep that time! AROC normally does it. They drill for particular times. They almost certainly did not drill for these songs. They probably weren't told.

So in order to march to a time, you have to know what time you're marching to, which means you'll probably also need to know a little bit about music! When you don't have someone screaming the timing to you you now have to GUESS. And everyone has to guess independently. And some will be wrong.

Have definitely heard the singing - I wonder if they were told not to sing while the music was playing. What does AROC stand for? I could only find Army Requirements Oversight Council, but that seems a little to back-office for this context.

Assistant Recruit Chief Petty Officer, said AROC, but actually spelled ARCPO. It doesn't mean anything outside of basic, they just pick some competent people, one to be the recruits' 'leader,' and another to be the assistant to them.

Thanks!

that was the hand-picked speech crowd from the other day, providing parade support

That's not even a march, it's just guys walking. I almost burst out laughing when I noticed

Several in each company may have been in step.

Absolutely correct! If there’s only a beat you can’t step together to, there’s nothing to hold it together. Pretty amazing that even one small group of them were together. I wonder if someone was calling an audible there.

Agreed. Hell, they probably could've marched in half time, like every other beat. Or even just follow the person ahead of them.

Um, they drill for this. They do usually have a time keep of some sort - the lack is perhaps a sign they didn't want to present that level of discipline in response to the orders to march.

Unsurprising. We had better discipline in marching band.

Marching in step is not the same as marching in time to the music. It means marching in unison, at the same pace. Like the military does at other parades and functions. You know, everyone's left foot, then everyone's right foot...

I would think playing loud music with a different tempo makes it harder to stay in step

Probably so. But one unit was managing, and they do drill for this. On the other hand, marching in step to Fortunate Son would be *chef's *kiss level irony...

Former here, too. But even so... clearly they're not trying very hard. They totally could sharpen this up if they wanted.

True 🙂

The purpose of a military’s march in formation to a set cadence is to enable a big group of people cover miles at a determined pace. It also ensures tactics plans are successful when leaders know a group’s training makes them able to cover x miles in y time.

And is that guy at the end even saluting? It looks like he is just patting his own head!!

First thing I noticed was they were not in step. They look like they don't want to be there. Hope spaghetti isn't on the birthday menu tonight, as the walls might be under seige.

The U.S. Army was trained for war. They were never meant to participate in farces like this "anniversary parade" (read: 47's birthday celebration).

Absolutely, soldiers marching like that in China could face the firing squad.

Im of the belief that half these soldiers were put on parade duty as a penalty or punishment from a drill Sargeant, or much higher officers pranking some of their men.

I noticed that immediately myself. It's downright odd to see that. 🤷‍♂️

That was the first thing I noticed

That's called an "at ease" march. It's pretty normal for a longer parade routes. What's baffling is that they stayed at ease when passing in review and even while rendering honors. I was a one-term weenie and haven't drilled a platoon in 25 years and I'm sitting here going "WTF???"

I was listening to the same song at my protest today

“I ain't no senator’s son…”

They should've played that Team America song 🤣

Fuck Yeah! 🦅🇺🇲📺🍺⛪📚🚁💣🇺🇲🦅

Everyone looks miserable.

Those May Day Red Army parades Trump wanted to imitate? The Soviets had special parade units whose job it was to look impressive for those. It was what they trained for. US Army trains to fight, not to march in straight lines down wide boulevards.

BUT we still know HOW to much a parade, & it's BETTER than this. Heck a PT formation at 5 a.m. is BETTER than this. And we SING when we march.

Not to be too picky but I would hardly call what the troops were doing "marching". This was more like an amble. No spring in the step. Lots of soldiers with 2 left feet.

US military has smaller units that do nothing but parade and ceremonies. You see them a lot living near DC. Even one that specializes in fife and drum music. Not nearly on the scale we are talking about though.

Yeah there's about enough of them to do a funeral procession, when they're not busy guarding the Tomb of the Unknown.

Once you count all the bands it’s actually a sizable number. Even before the recent dogginess the US spent more on military music than the NEA. Anyone with some skill in logistics could have put on a decent parade. But competency is not our leaderships strong suit.

Given the fact that folks are still needing FEMA support (which he scrapped), and thousands have lost their federal jobs due to “waste and abuse”, and his “big beautiful bill” will scrap Medicaid and make American lives more difficult, a vanity dictator parade was never necessary.

Not arguing otherwise. Just pointing out that the US and its armed services got the skills to put on an impressive parade. That this administration squandered those skills to produce this orgy of militaristic conspicuous consumption is an embarrassment not least to the people forced to participate.

That marching, if it can even be described as such is truly appalling though, is there something I don't understand as a Brit? Don't US military spend any basic training learning to march?

Especially melania.

Melania de Vil

F-her

They look like prisoners

I agree.

Like POWs getting shame-marched through the enemy capitol.

This!!

Yeah, they really do.

It’s like they just hired a bunch of random folks and told them to walk down the road. They only had three units and they kept walking around the block! #FightFascism

The D&C blocks of instructions must have changed. Fuck Trump, but marching a formation in front of the sitting president may have warranted a refresher. The Rangers get a pass because fuck D&C when you're a ranger, it's called ranger walk for a reason.

They were doing it intentionally. They wanted to embarrass 47.

Honoring Mr. draft dodging bone spurs=" a fortunate son" x5 with a hard driving single and all those soldiers out there marching...and the obese orange fool. was clueless. What could be more beautiful. www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump...

Man I've been getting perfect formation PLA propaganda since 2008 and the US military can't even choreograph a fucking walk

Methinks that was a slow walk.

It’s the mobile version of a slow clap.

According to some of my buddies in the service, it's a "safe" way to show their displeasure/rebel by being intentionally off-step and other stuff.

I noticed the troops were not really marching. They were just kinda ambling down the street. I love that for #TACOboy! Fuck that turd!

I retired an infantry platoon sergeant. It's what you would have seen had I given the "Forward at the route step, march" command. My platoon despised parades and, I think, so do most of the troops. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the "ambling down the street" was intentional.

I also find it strange the troops were not in Class A dress uniforms. I guess things have changed quite a bit in the last 50+ years.

Thank you for your service, Sarge, and your input. Whatever was going on there, it certainly was quite loose & informal. Hard to imagine soldiers wanting to perform for a guy who calls them “losers & suckers”.

They call it the bone-spur shuffle.

Perfect! 👍

It is, yeah. It's actually difficult to march out of step, if you're active duty. You and your buddies go out to the bar or for pizza? You ACCIDENTALLY walk in-step. It's automatic. If you see anyone here not in step, it's them saying fuck you without drawing an article 15.

I remember trying to do it back in marching band as a teen, and even then it was near impossible because it's just "natural" to synch up after a while.

Grew up military and I agree with your buddies. There's no way that was anything but intentional. They were in front of their commander in chief and gave that display? Intentional. Had to be.

Hell, even the squeaking of the tanks is a giveaway that they're NOT pleased with doing this and are saying so in ways that get the point across while still "following orders"

Oh they can. Ask why they didn't.

There it is.

I assume whoever chose that song had only heard it played during war movies & thought it was a great choice. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It could also be intentional since Trump played it during his campaign and everyone mocked him because President Bone Spurs very much was the Fortunate Son and got away with it while poor people without recourse bled and died in Vietnam.

He clearly also has no idea of the meaning behind it. I doubt anyone would have the guts to explain it to him. Whoever chose it is equally oblivious, or they were intentionally trolling him. Either way, it’s brilliant 😁

He didn’t know he’s Javare

I expect it's very intentional. All of it *waves arms* was VERY intentional.

More than a few brothers there as well.

No one seems to be smiling.

Pathetic. They soldiers can’t even walk in step.

They most certainly can walk in step. But they're not.

Hmm. Perhaps then they're showing that they don't want to be there?

Awesome troll

yes, indeed, and I find it delicious

Tacky af🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They’re not even marching in cadence.

That has to be on purpose.

It HAS to be. When I was in, we always marched in step no matter what. This has to be a form of protest from the soldiers!

I was f'ing ANC (Australian Navy Cadets) and then AAC (Australian Army Cadets) in my youth. Even us teenagers marched better than this.

Exactly. Looks like they’re not even making an attempt.

My High School marching band was more in lock step than these guys.

Love it. Is marching out of step an act of civil disobedience?

I would like to think so

💯 I would have, if some pathetic draft dodger with a spray tan called me "loser" and "sucker".

Great. Now, we are going to have North Korea laughing at our marching. Thanks for embarrassing us, Trump.

North Korea and Russia: ROFL The rest of the world: WTF?

A great lesson on what happens when you defund the arts and humanities. Media literacy can save us all from the unbearable weight of cringe.

Those poor guys look so embarrassed

Saw them marching out of step and thought of the Clone Troopers marching into the Jedi Temple...

I was thinking about the movie, Stripes.

jesus christ 🤦‍♀️

At ease marching?

If they were any more disinterested they would be going backwards!

Yes!

It ain't me I ain't no military son

Did Trump request "Favorite Son"?

For a guy who "hates war," he sure gets juiced by soldiers, tanks, and weapons of war.

He gets off on the attention.

… well we knew they lacked basic media literacy already. Tho I have to say having that width of formation on such a wide street makes the units look *tiny*.

If it would fit on the Main Street in my hometown it is too narrow to look impressive on Constitution Ave, folks!

C'est mignon des militaires qui ne marchent pas au pas 🤠

Are they off-beat on purpose?

I know as Air Cadets we were told to break stride when on a bridge, is Washington, DC considered a bridge? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brought...

Probably. March is still part of military training, even though It's not used in war.

They're not even marching in step. That was a thing during my very brief stint in the army.

I believe it’s a statement

Yes, it was, but I wrote that right after they first started marching, before we knew the truth..

He'll, I never served, but was in the Boy Scouts and High School Band and we marched better than that

I was in marching band, too. My favorite memory was 1976, when we marched in the Rose Bowl Parade. We were definitely in step. 😊

Yeah. It's very sloppy. They are definitely showing a lot of pride while representing the United States of America. Those poor guys

We once were the envy of the world, right?

Morale is low. You can't ask disillusioned human beings to put their lives on the line.

They wanted to make 47 look bad, and weak. They did.

It worked. Boy was he pissed, and took it out on Hegseth.

I know now. I didn't know then. That was right after they had begun marching.

Marching in step was a thing that started in Jr. High marching band for me. I can't believe they're not even marching in step just because it's the logical thing to do. Must be one of those new Trump admin things.

It was in protest, or so I read from ex-military. Makes sense…

There is a very good reason why soldiers and cadets usually march to a marching band and not to rock songs. The clue's in the name.

Other groups do march to rock music, and even if soldiers and cadets dont. And it makes our soldiers look sloppy, and lazy. You shouldn't see that in Trumps want to be North Korean America.

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I can't, either.

They're strolling! Just having a stroll.

Lol. It sure seemed like it

I served in the army too and that was the first thing I noticed, they are all out of step. That's a very big deal in the army and any group past the second week of basic training knows how to march better than this. Maybe a way to silently protest, or maybe they are so disgusted they just don't care

Trump put uniforms on maga, like J6 rioters, and it shows.

I think you may be right.

The soldier at the :54 mark gives zero fucks. My drill instructors would have screamed “ hippity hop, mob stop!” and made us go back to the beginning to start over.

Im trying to understand if they did it on purpose, or why?

Marching in step is not hard. (Not easy on Day 1 of Boot Camp but you soon find it.) And you don’t need music or a snare drum to keep time. It’s muscle memory. Maybe marching to a cover band playing Night Ranger was too much. Some may have intentionally gotten out of step, or didn’t care, or both.

I know. Its not hard at all. I did it, so there's proof. I just meant Trump was wanting things to be so professional, that didnt happen.

They didn't do "eyes right" as a salute to him

Old Army brat here ca. late 1960s ...and while Dad was no "parade-ground dog" he understood how excercises like marching in tight step were important.

You sure aren't projecting strength if you're just shambling, as someone just said.

Cripes, it looked like the goddamn Shriners' Parade.

I agree completely.

My husband was in the army and said they never marched out of step. He is convinced it was their way of protesting.

I hope that he's right.

Nope! that's their best. The US military are a danger to themselves and anybody unfortunate enough to be allied to them. Friend of mine in 7th Armoured in the Gulf War told me they were shooting at themselves and us on a daily basis. Quote 'Bunch of arseholes the lot of them'

I was thinking it was malicious compliance. Trump has no clue how it’s supposed to look and most troops are annoyed by having to do any parade detail. It’s awful. Like first week of basic awful. I can’t imagine it being accidental as terrible as it is.

Very much NOT squared away lol

Grew up in the USAF and I immediately noticed that too. I find it hard to believe anything except that it was intentional. The Army's way of protesting(?).

As the humblest of air force reservists, it was painfully obvious how out of step they were. This was a casual stroll more than anything.

Thank you so much for serving. 🤗🤗🤗

Thats right. Its amazing that people are trying to make it into something else.

Yes. "[P]ainfully obvious" was my experience too. I'm reminded of some movie I saw where a soldier was ordered to salute s.o. he vehemently disagreed w/ and the soldier shoved his hands deep into his pockets. Thank you for your sacrifice and service. 🫡

I’m surprised their commanding officer allowed it. Or maybe they decided to do it at the last minute. Or maybe we are all wrong, and because they were going to march for a long distance, they were allowed to do it this way?

I've wondered the same thing. (1) the CO was on board; or (2) they got in trouble and didn't care. I've seen "dressing downs" before and it's a lot of yelling but that's it. MAYBE they got some demerits and/or crap duty (like cleaning toilets or mess duty (KP)). My best guess.

Not even out of step but mostly shambling honestly

Many of them are out of step.

I tried to type not JUST out of step but also just shambling haha. Not all of it made it apparently

🤗🥰

Not *just* out of step. Mb

I never served in the army, but this doesn't look like a group marching out of step to me. Wouldn't they be bumping into each other in that case? It does look like a group that's shambling, trying to keep in step enough not to bump into each other, but not really crisp in their movements.

I believe that it is shambling, too. But that i don't why they would do that with something Trump is trying to portray as professional.

Watching the parade excerpts was a saddening experience for me. Our dedicated men and women in the army deserved a celebration of the U.S. Army's 250 years of service. Because it was linked to tRump's birthday celebration, and about him, they weren't celebrated as they should have been.

Thats right.

we were GRILLED on marching in step in the BOY SCOUTS those troops are absolutely marching under duress

I was in band. We made it to the Rose Bowl Parade in 1976, so our marching was pretty good, and in-step.

We marched harder in high school marching band.

I loved being in band. Lots if cool trips. Lol

more like: they're saying "F this s**t" with their body language. Good for them.

I wonder. They might be genuine troops telling Trump to fuck himself to hell and back or they might not be real soldiers 🤔

Now we know. Im so glad they did that.

Thats what it was, and im so grateful they "spoke" up.

Yeah that’s what I said

I wonder if that was a planned act of defiance? Subtle, but noticeable.

It could be. I would love it if that was true .

Hell, anyone who has been in marching band does it better.

I was thinking that all day. Most of them were just walking by, formations out of sync. If it was protest, good for them, but they looked like a bunch of slobs.

According to the person that responded before you did soldiers and cadets don't march to rock songs.

makes sense. it doesn't look good though.

Maybe, but he was mocking me for saying they weren't in step. I've never watched a parade that had soldiers looking sloppy like that.

In military or drill contexts, "route step, march" signifies a command to march in a relaxed manner, allowing individuals to maintain intervals and distance but not necessarily requiring them to stay in step or maintain silence.

Ok, I get that, but it looks sloppy. Trump wanted a North Korea-type parade, and didn't get it.

This makes us look so weak. 😰

This is awkward.

What a joke, but totally on par🤡…so did they bring out the clown cars? That would have been icing on cake.

How insulting to the troops to hear this while marching for an actual "fortunate son" draft dodger

No offence to troops but they weren’t marching. Marching they would all be in step. They were walking, probably deliberately. A quiet form of protest I would think.

Thank you. I came to the replies to see if anyone else noticed how out of step they were

Daughter of a band director here & was in marching band in high school—song is too fast to march to. But it could have been slowed down to make it “marchable.” (Apart, of course, from the whole problem of the lyrics & meaning of Fortunate Son, that is…). #NoKings

Yes, I’m sure that didn’t help, but unlike marching bands, the military normally marches without music. The fast music might have distracted a few of them, but that was god-awful. Cadence is so drilled in that a group of soldiers/Marines going to the bar tend to fall in step.

True! I am 69 and could probably still do 8 to 5 down a football field. Muscle memory is powerful.

4547 Seems bored.

It's so embarassing. It's the parade equivalent of when he served cold McDonalds at the White House.

They're kinda just walking.

How are you supposed to march to this music? Waiting for the birthday jubilant to start dancing though.

It’s easy when the song is 4/4. Typically your left foot hits the ground on the first and third beat. All of Credence Clearwater sing are in that time.

beyond the subtext i mean LITERALLY NOT SUBTEXT JUST TEXT, also it's got a terrible beat and they can't march to it

I give it a 64, Dick. It has a good beat, but it's difficult to dance to.

Is this an AI generated parade?

no, it happened, cspan had it live and it was streamed on the white house youtube and twitter pages.

If it was AI they’d be marching in step.

🤣

Marching in step but with extra limbs and fingers 🤣

All three legs!

Might be they're out of step as a fuck you to the guy who is making them do this bullshit.

Song is too fast for marching anyways, Sousa is spinning rn

Valid. The cadence doesn't cadence.

They probably got rid of the Black members for the aesthetics.

Did you even watch the video? Every formation had people of color. I don't think these troops were hand picked. That's why they are strolling instead of marching. These are not all Trump cultists..

Paid DEI participants. Sad!

I was unclear. I was talking about the terrible music that offered NO SUPPORT to the men marching. For clarity; they probably got rid of the musicians of color for aesthetics, and those musicians took the beat and pep with them. #listlessstrole. Black,white, or indifferent, when ordered you march.

I see where the mixup happened. You said members. I read military members. You meant band members. I'm still glad the parade was a shithow.

Hard to find words to describe how I feel about that.

Yup.

Look at those formations 😂😂😂

Why in the world do they not have the Army band out there?

They all called in sick.

Wow...

There are hardly any people watching!

Apt. Goodonya.

vaya puto ridículo

This isn't even half-assing it...this is quarter-assing, which is when half-assing is putting in a bit too much ass.

I’m gonna remember this. I can use this one again.

TY! 🤣

Consider it a gift.

Got it from Bob's Burgers. Wish I could claim credit for it.

I ❤️ this

Idiots

Pathetic

You should have included video of that spectacular float with a real time display of paint drying.

OMG! 🤣

Sounds like a scene from Apocalypse Now! What a travesty on the seriousness our troops deserve 😥

Their marching is shit. We would’ve been in hella trouble in the Air Force if we looked all ragged and out of step like that. Wtf? Maybe they’re deliberately trying to look like shit as a form of protest?

Hopefully that is it, otherwise I feel bad for them. After watching hundreds of military marching in perfect unison at the Queens funeral this is cringe. I hope Donald, who yearns for perfect pomp and ceremony is painfully aware of this.

It's the only logical explanation for this. They're trying on purpose to not even try. And honestly, I can't blame them. Participating in the parade to begin with is beneath them and their credentials, and these troops know it full well. They know it's a stupid idea.

HOW DO PEOPLE STILL CONTINUE MISSING THE POINT OF THIS GODDAMN SONG. IT’S NOT LIKE IT’S IN ANOTHER GODDAMN LANGUAGE OR SOMETHING.

My favorite version of this was the Wrangler ad that only played the part of the song that said this below, over some images of patriotic-type beach football and stuff happening in jeans: “Some folks are born made to wave the flag Hoo, they're red, white and blue” aaaaaaaaaaaand CUT!

It has „flag“ and „red, white and blue“ so it must a patriot song?

Same thing with Born in the USA lol

I’d say they think it evokes all the ‘cool’ Vietnam War movies…sans Context of course

Pretty sure someone asked ChatGPT what music the troops like

It was in a movie with guns and helicopters so it must be patriotic

Given the recent upset about Springsteen protesting Trump, it seems people also still continue to miss the point of Born in the USA, so I guess they are consistent.

Trump voters are disproportionately Christian. Jesus' primary message is anti-capitalist. The bible's antichrist descriptions warn against worshipping dictators just like him (even calling out false "greatest ever" promises). These people don't do detail-based reasoning. They operate on vibes alone.

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They heard it in a Vietnam movie, but never actually listened to or thought about the lyrics. "Born in the USA" suffers the same fate, as does Presidential favourite, Village People's YMCA, which is about inclusiveness, although the writer denies there's a gay subtext.

The military band get the point. This is an obvious insult to 'bone spurs' trump.

Some people just hear a catchy melody & don't bother to actually hear what the artist is saying. They're listening but they aren't putting the components together to see the message being relayed.

Some people can’t even comprehend traffic signs, let alone poetry/lyrics

These same people also never got the point of "Born in the USA" because all they hear is the chorus.

I prefer to think they included it on purpose.

I mean, the title is "Fortunate Son" and whose self-fluffing parade is this, after all?

As a French person used to our culturally and historically motivated military parade that cost ~3.5M I’m surprise to see that “amateur hour” Trump one cost 45M 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Je me disais la même chose, il a clairement adoré le défilé du 14 juillet en 2017 et en livre une version à la fois cheap et overpriced 🤡

La version américaine de ce que l'Europe fait de mieux... rien de nouveau sous le soleil. Mais c'est quand même le défilé le plus dégueulasse que j'ai jamais vu !!

Salutations to the French. Did you know that yesterday the British Army Trooped the Colour in honour of the King? Another culturally and historically motivated event that cost far less than $45M. And the Guards can march!

And we got Spitfires! And LOADS of people turned up, as they do every year. This is meant to be a one-in-a-lifetime event and this is how many people turn up? Ouch...

SPITFIRES!!!!! Look at them ... LOOK AT THEM!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4M...

The annoying thing is I meant to say Red Arrows, not Spitfires. But for this I'll let it stand. 😀

I hope you enjoyed the music. A catchy little number.

It is indeed, I love PSB.

I am no expert on military parades but the show also struck me as somewhat underwhelming. And the video production is hopelessly amateurish

You can’t fake enthusiasm.

It would help if the soldiers could actually march in step with each other rather than look like they are out for a stroll

That struck me as well, don't they teach the US Army to march?!

Perhaps the soldiers cannot disobey orders to "go clown around on a birthday party," but they *miiight* not execute them perfectly.

You're giving them way too much credit here, I think they're just a bit shit.

I like to think it's malicious compliance: obey orders EXACTLY, and definitely do not volunteer to fix any mistakes, down to the obvious difference between walking and marching. bsky.app/profile/rosa...

When I did my military service back when, I learned two modes of marching: "in step" / "without step" (don't know the English terms). The former was only for parades. Here, they used the latter. That must be intentional.

In the UK that would be 'march' and 'break step'. Those soldiers were shambling. Military protest step.

And they all appear to be wearing pyjamas as well. Compare that to dress uniforms in Europe. What a shabby turnout.

Warfighting warfighters are expected to warfight, marching in step is woke. Also you can't really march to CCR. If only the most famous military march composer was an American. Oh well.

They're clearly doing it on purpose. Look at those faces, those soldiers do NOT want to be there.

I’m sure the US Army can march when it wants to. About dress uniform, can’t the troops just wear the uniform of current issue in their unit? Do you think that members of Trump’s Regime understand the hazards of such low morale and motivation in the ranks?

British teenage cadets are more professional than that lot. Surely that was not the main event? 😬

I think that was probably deliberate lol No other way to show their distaste for having been dragooned into Trump's politicised birthday parade

And sloppy uniforms

They absolutely knew what they were doing.. IYKYK Every ounce of casual sloppiness was intentional

If your toes were as curled up as I assume theirs were here, you wouldn't be able to march properly either

They're very obviously doing that on purpose.

That’s how I used to march when I didn’t wanna be there.

Come to think of it: we used to cross bridges without cadence so as to avoid a rhythmic sway. (They might have considered contracting with Bill Murray for some unusual tactics).

I was just thinking...they all look incredibly embarassed

They surely are,but what's strange for a European is that apparently they never learnt how to military march properly .This is the very basic learning of any european soldier. & we do not learn it in order to be able to march for some national day,but to be able to move a complete unit efficiently.

They were not marching on purpose. Our troops know how to March. They just didn’t see the need to be honoring a convicted felon & traitor.

This seems to be the accepted explanation.

It is.

Bill Murray had his guys marching in step

Very effective for forming pike squares to fend off cavalry charges

They are very much doing this on purpose to "voice" their displeasure at being there.

Actually, if you look at footage from the 40s, US troops could march extremely well and were pretty snazzy in formations. I suspect the "doing it on purpose" option may be correct. That would also explain the dress-down Saturday uniform option as well!

I read that since the Army is in the middle of a uniform transition that not all soldiers have the same dress uniform - could explain the choice or maybe they wanted them to look ready for battle.

I have recently attended one of my son’s Army functions… multiple formations across a huge field making their way to present in front of the packed stands… they know how to march

Oh they absolutely know how to march. This was a choice.

Somewhat casual, yet not sashay

It looked like a group cadets playing soldier, and walking down to the chow house, which is what trump deserved

I was a cadet eons ago and can say first hand it takes a bunch of 13-16 year olds, a couple months of Wednesday evenings to learn how to march in perfect step. These trained soldiers were making a choice here.

We were taught to March properly. We marched everywhere in basic training. Every last joe in that formation lacked any interest in it. They were absolutely out for a stroll. I guarantee that the next change of command or brigade run, they will all be in step.

Because this administration is a corruption machine.

Great point, one more: Parade spend 45m$ FBI Reward to find Minnesota killer 50k$ Does anyone else take offence to this?

It's almost like they don't want to find him

It probably cost 3.5 million. The rest went to trump.

A third of the cost was set aside to repair the streets and the sewers below them afterwards, as unlike the Champs-Elysees, Pennsylvania Avenue wasn't built with military parades in mind. Even when we do have military parades in DC, they usually go from the Capitol down Constitution Avenue...

...to Arlington National Cemetary, and are held after the war, to symbolize the government handing the soldiers back to the people from whence they were drawn, and honoring the fallen dead. This one goes from the Pentagon to the White House, an army paying honor to its King. Very different vibe.

Do you actually think that our Champs Elysee were built to handle les chars Leclerc ?.... The pavement has to be redone on many parts of the avenue after every 14 juillet. Doesn't mean it costs 40 M+ ...

Then maybe you should redesign it to handle such parades. And road/rail construction/repair projects in the US are notoriously expensive on a per-mile basis for reasons I've never had satisfactorily explained to me.

Fake Melania appearance fees. Rising like the price of eggs.

You can bet a fair bit was probably magically siphoned off to the "Trump Presidential Library" 😂

That's our boy.

I'm assuming he gave himself a $40 million birthday present. I'm not even mad. I hope the check I wrote April 15th went towards this because that look on his face was worth every penny, even if he embezzled most of it like he always does.

I’ve read the majority of the money will go toward repairing the roads after the parade—since they weren’t built to handle the weight of this military equipment!😡

That is deeply weird. Cost 190k to repair road in 2003 avec French parade. Even taking taking account of the inflation, the math don’t work. (Approx. 280k today…still less than the fireworks that cost all together 750k last year in Paris )

The grift is always the point

Wait -are they marching? 🫠 asking as a sailor who is an expert in directed drift 🫣

But they aren’t, are they? I’m not military, but it looks like they’re just walking along out of step. This seems . . . weird.

It could be demoralization of the troops- I sure Af wouldn’t want to be anything for that 🍊💩👀-it could also be a veiled insult by the commands and troops. They can’t speak up against Trump -it’s in the regs -so the insults and protests will be subtle like the choice of the song Senator’s son or 👇