When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”
Everything the orange cretin does makes the US look weak, but the GOP love being the enablers of a circus, so...
Ike...a great Republican when Republicans were still patriotic.
Don't we miss the Eisenhower Republicans. Back when you didn't really think about the gov't coming with storm troops.
Well, Trump is literally making America weak, so unnecessary pomp and circumstance to feign might makes sense for such a weak President. Pathetic.
Came here to say exactly that.
No worries there then. America has never been weaker or more pathetic.
Trump doth protest too much. Clown.
Vain weak faux emperor with no clothes. How did OUR money get allocated for this BS?
Someone show T this video.
Hoping that this 'dear leader' parade idea - if it goes - gets no press/no media/no attendance other than the DT sycophants. If media report - no clicks. NONE. Wrap your hands in goalie gloves if you have to but NO CLICKS.
Exactly. #47 is weak so there you have the motivating factor.
He got that right.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/e...
I guess Stalin didn't have a pee tape of Ike.
Ike would have the 47th felon arrested, tried for treason, convicted and jailed. He was a man not a clown.
Yes, agree. It's ridiculous. And a TOTAL waste of taxpayers' money!!!
Trump’s been wanting a parade (and loyalty) ever since his visit to one of his many favorite dictators. He’s like the kid eagerly excited that the ice cream truck is coming, and just like them he wants to show off his best toys against the neighbor across the street.
He was the last good republican.
The four stars on his shoulders says he’s right!
Ike knew what he was talking about.
Agreed. Weak and pathetic.
Sounds about right.
With drumpf in the white house surrounded by stooges, we are weak. I guess it's fitting.
Trump doesn't want a parade to show our might, he wants a parade to feed his ego, that's all, he wants to be worshiped, he wants to feel important and no matter how bad it will actually make us look for doing it, his lapdogs will feed his ego
He should lead the parade on the deck of the USS Truman.
That man is one of the least talked about but most interesting Presidents. He seemed to have a unique perspective with his life experience. Believe it was Eisenhower who once warned about risks of the military industrial complex ahead. He had seen war as numbers as Generals must, so knew them well.
Yeah but what does that Eisenhower guy know about military power compared to colonel Bonespurs?
But the real Orange comrade wants one for his birthday. After campaigning on rooting out government fraud and wasteful spending, Bonespurs decides to celebrate with a parade. That’s like going on a diet, losing 2 pounds, and then celebrating by eating a “works” pizza! He is an embarrassment.
Trump doesn't understand this concept, and even if he did, the word preeminent is not in his 4th grade level vocabulary.
Trump’s military parade will be his declaration of the United States government’s willingness to use force domestically to squash opposition. Tanks rolling into Washington, DC will mark the end of America’s democratic system of government.
Perfect birthday card for the fat fuk in the whitehouse?
Also a criminal waste of $ that could be used for things that actually help people.
Yeah, but MAGA = little dicks.
NOW IT MAKES SENSE Trump reduced us to a chaotic laughing stock just so he could have a military parrade for his birthday
It makes me sick to think of our military guys having to to be forced to parade in front of a draft dodger that is screwing over vets at every turn. He has no fucking shame.
Well, to be fair, Eisenhower was a decent man, a strong military leader, and a President who recognized both the value of money and the value of leadership. Donald's none of those things. He sees the military as his personal toybox and he wants his warfighters to march and salute him.
We've been through this insanity in season 1. This time the draft dodger is a convicted criminal. No fucking military parade. USA does not do that. You're thinking of north Korea.
He also wanted EVERYTHING at the concentration camps documented seven ways to Sunday, because some asshats in the future might deny it happened, but what did he know? Ugh.
Since we put 120 million in the bottom of the ocean in the last 2 weeks. He can kiss his parade goodbye
The guys/gals who REALLY have it don't boast.
A real leader.
100%
Most maga can’t read and will never understand what you’re saying
Maybe the idiots in charge already know that we’ve looked weak since January and basically said, “oh well, let’s lean into it” 😂
Ike knew things MAGA has forgotten or never got.
Good answer from Ike.
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Trump IS weak. MAGA ARE weak. They've put us all in danger. How many people have died from US bombs because their leader was too extreme to be trusted with nukes? We're next.
Now can we please have some media type pose that exact question to Trmp? It’d be a kamikaze mission but they would be an instant sensation for standing up to his audacious stupidity.
Ike an underrated POTUS. Gave me my Social Security Disability, 90% tax rate on the upper bracket. I like Ike.
...Lord Farquaad much, Donnie?
In today's GOP, Eisenhower would be considered "woke."
So we will look weak on June 14th. You know what will counter that? The thousands who will take to the streets for the #NoKings protests on that day!
Well, he's no Eisenhower.
He's not even a McLellan!
*McClellan
You don't need to advertise that you're the best at something.
Everything DJT does makes us look weak.
And now you know why someone gave him that idea.
80,000+ jobs being cut at the VA due to budget, but there's fucking birthday party money for a draft dodging rapist? Make that make sense. Absolutely goddamn pathetic. Empty ports and soon empty shelves at the grocery stores for the Americans, but Donald gets his parade.
Not happened yet, watch what he does it’s all about deflecting that’s how stooge 47 works, when will USA 🇺🇸actually wake up to this regime is fascism ?
I guess Ike couldn’t imagine the possibility of a draft dodger who fantasize about being a military dictator becoming president.
Yeah, Trump wants to show the world just how weak we are. As if they didn't already know this by the fact that we elected a moronic felon to be president.
It’s small dick energy…
Looking weak is on brand for maga.
Now we have a brain worm in the Oval Office. Weak old loser.
Ohhhh I love this. So true.
Ike and I are in complete agreement.
Truth
Someone needs to show that to President Dementia.
Still true.
The United States is no longer powerful. Powerful people do NOT send dozens of masked men to kidnap and beat up women and children. And leave children in cars to fend for themselves. Only cowards and criminals do that! It's time to STOP serving Evil Billionaires!
Eisenhower fearing for our present condition : www.archives.gov/milestone-do...
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The difference is clear between the man who served & led the Allies to victory, & the convicted draft dodger with delusions of grandeur. Eisenhower had nothing to prove. The felon is so insecure, he feels he must prove his primacy every day, the more extravagant the better. Ike he will never be.
no shit
Those who've been paying attention know exactly why trump wants a "Russian" style military parade.
Republican President Eisenhower, One of The Greatest Presidents, Warned About "A Few Texas Millionaires"(Today's Billionaires) ....
Well trump is good at that making us look weak
If a president that not only served, but planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942–1943 and the invasion of Normandy in 1944. Then, orange rapists should listen.
Still true not sure how.much weaker we can look
To be fair, Michael Beschloss was paraphrasing how Eisenhower might have responded to that question. It's his sentiment, but it's not an exact quote, and there's no evidence he said the quote that's being attributed to him. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
Not true. Or only half-true at best: www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
Not a fan of the parade personally, but didn't we fulfill Ike's prophecy of weakness by re-electing a known felon and aspiring dictator. So fuck it, have the goddamn parade. The US gave the game away long ago.
I would give a parade for Trump if he would leave America or better earth.
This doesn’t have the cadence or elegance of Eisenhower. Sounds fake.
Ok, but Ike obviously wasn't a russian stooge! Apples and Oranges people.
Eisenhower was a former war hero General AND then became a President. He didn’t need to SHOW his strength. He SERVED. He embodied strength. Only weak ass men need to have a military parade. Think about it…who does that? Little men with big issues.
After 100 days of Trump we are weak and pathetic. This is what happens when you elect a weak pathetic leader.
1/2 From Eisenhower’s 1953 The Chance for Peace speech: "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully
2/2 equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."
Bingo!!!!!!!!!
Trump is the toughest pussy I’ve ever seen 🐥
I Like Ike
I mean… we can’t seem to keep fighter jets on air craft carriers, but sure let’s roll some tanks near people
Thats pretty much the quote…
That bus left last month, but yeah, it's historically correct.
Trumpty Dumpty is trying to get attention to himself!! He called our brave soldiers suckers and losers, so why does he want to watch them match in his miserable honor!!?!?
Agree
WORD!!
trump acts confident, but he is not, so he has to do show and tell. It's the guy wanting to be part of the "cool group" but he's not. Pay more attention to congress because we know not all executive orders are enforceable.
Eisenhower was a five-star general who led Allied forces to victory in WWII. He understood strength. Trump hid in a bunker during protests and now demands tanks and parades to try & prove he’s invincible. One earned respect. The other will be remembered for corruption, lies, and greed.
And cowardice.
Ike knew the score.
Trump isn't emulating soviet traditions he is emulating Hitlers narcisssism.
Sadly we are weak because of the GOP
Trump is a treasonous prick a lifetime criminal it must be stopped
Trump, in all aspects of his life, is what a weak man does that thinks it is what a strong man does.
I'm reminded of coaches of great franchises telling their players: Act like you've been here.
I’m imagining the U.S. Military taking matters into their own hands Pulling Trump n his sycophants out of power.🙏
The only President I wish Trump would mimic, is the ninth one. William Henry Harrison.
As my favorite face-tatted ex-con lesbian social media figure put it so succinctly, the louder someone is, the weaker they are. True thugs aren't loud. They whisper.
The last decent Republican president.
Siri what was operation wetback?
Decent and infallible are *not* the same thing. Also, I'm reading into this, and... Uh. Eisenhower played his part for sure. Also kiiiiiinda wild that the Mexican gov't was pressuring the US to enforce the border harder.
I know Ike was complex. He shouted Patton off for wanting a Nazi army and stop mistreating Jews, but also went along this mass deportation
I think I want to set up a shrine to Ike.
He’s got a great museum in Abilene, Kansas if you’re ever in the neighborhood!✌🏾
Well, thank you. I won't be getting on a plane for the next 4 years, though.
agreed!
Or Murdoch & Co paid attention to Ike and went, "How can we pump up those numbers...?"
Don't forget the Koch Brothers!
Oh he read Texas politics for filth.
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Someone should tell him.
Second thought - I guess the parade is appropriate representation of what we have become under Trump!!! Can't believe our D.C. streets (and mall filled with memorials to men and women beyond Trump's capacity to appreciate) will have military vehicles and soldiers desecrating them to honor "him!"
I like Ike!
Thanks for your service! I came here to say exactly that.
#DonaldTrumpIsWeak
Thats why he has to do it - Putin ordered him to so the world could see how weak we are.
He was actually IN the military. ;)
But how, with that small dick?
Well... I mean I guess with all the cuts to education, science, and freedom, we're probably not really the pre-eminent power anymore. So, fitting maybe.
Djt has made America weak.
Former General Mattis told an aide that he would rather drink acid than put on such a show.
Agree!
Make this a sticker & line the parade street with these!
I believe we are weaker with 47 in charge. What he has done in 100 days has driven countries away from us. He's made constituents take to the streets in protest, and fewer of them respect his administration's judgment or choices.
Ike you are missed
I hope he has a hot Mike moment and says “where’s the really big submarines? They have steering wheels? I’m going to put steering wheels and gas pedals on all our water vehicles. The best you’ve ever seen.” It’s probably.
And North Korea. He gets a parade every time he asks or a visitor comes in the country
A military parade is embarrassing.
@bryandawsonusa.bsky.social Thank you for this. The quote is accurate. Eisenhower was not asked about all military parades, which were occasionally held to commemorate the end of specific conflicts. He was condemning any boastful show of military might for its own sake: the sort of Soviet […]
There are no funds allocated for this parade who is going to pay for it? who will repair the streets destroyed by the tanks If he were really a strong and effective president he wouldn't need all too this stupidity
You know the American tax payer will foot the bill for this vanity project.
But, legally Congress must budget the money With Trump's golfing and everything else I think he has already drained petty cash But if Congress does nothing then he most certainly can have his parade
Yes but Eisenhower didn't come close to having Trump's war experience
So- perfect for the wuss in chief we have in “power”
We looked weak Nov 5th, 2024. The parade is just spoiled icing on the cake.
Did Eisenhower express this sentiment...? Essentially. Is this is a direct quote, tho? Nah. www.snopes.com/fact-check/e...
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And old, and done.
Ahh Character & Intellect What a combination Too bad Republican's favor the opposite Dumb Dictator
And Eisenhower was a republican
AND a 5-Star General - not a draft dodging coward like The FELON!
Eisenhower understood he had a duty to uphold the constitution. “The Supreme Court has spoken, and I am sworn to uphold the constitutional process in this country; I will obey.”
"Speak softly and carry a big stick" as TR put it. Trump is 100% the opposite.
The last good republican.
We are supposed to be finding places to save money. Trump wants a parade and a ballroom. Hegseth got a beauty salon. And two military planes worth 60, 70 million dollars fell overboard. We also bombed the shit out of Yemen what 1000 strikes.
Would people PLEASE stop reposting this meme? Eisenhower literally never said that. That's a quote from a writer expressing his view of Eisenhower's attitude.
Aah but Eisenhower wasn't a Russian asset like our current president
Sounds like a perfect fit for President Dummy!
No Donald, you don’t need a huge military parade. Maybe you get one military parade participant not all, you can have Pete Hegseth with a balloon, no helicopters.
The last good gop….truly
The largest dogs don't need to bark
For Trump, there is no ability to understand “us.”
Small hands.
tRump agrees, which is why he's going ahead with it...
If they (the trumpers) haven't figured it out that trump is actually a soviet plant then they are dumber than originally thought. If he wasn't then why the parade? 🖕DJT
When you know you're the best, you don't have to prove it or show off.
The John Birch Society called Eisenhower a communist. Today's Republican Party is the modern day John Birch Society.
And desperate.
The upcoming $100,000,000 Malfeasance on the Mall - one of the least maneuverable urban locations in the country located on marsh sediments surrounded by rivers in one of the busiest airspaces on the East Coast coupled w/ assholery with aircraft sure makes it a ClusterF
But it's his birthday! Has he asked for 2 yet? Like a proper king
Sorry, Ike, but have you glanced at the SECDEF lately? The guy looks about as ready for combat as a Starbucks barista in a supply chain crisis. And "military might"? That’s more of a "military maybe." At this rate, America's best shot at global influence is getting McDonald's back in Moscow.
When progressives can turn to previous Republican leaders for quotes that damn the current POS, you know we are in an alternate reality
With the Orange Buffoon and his alcoholic secatery of the defence in charge, we are weak! Fucking morons!
Smart!
We already look weak.
There never has been a celebration on milestones for the military over the years! This is so about trump.... at our expense! $92 million
Thank you. I’ve been trying to find that quote
It’s not actually a quote from Ike. It’s from @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social I believe.
PolitiFact says it’s half true www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
And he was right. He sees gold trim in France and turns the WH into a bordello. He sees a military parade and wants one. F47 is a toddler throwing a tantrum in the candy aisle of the grocery. I think envy completes my deadly sin bingo card.
He wants to be the pope because he has to have everything under the sun
It tracks. Making America and Americans look weak is sort of Trump’s thing! Given his deeply rooted insecurities he must tear everything around him down to make himself superior.
We, as a nation, need to recognize just HOW weak this administration is making us (in every sense of the word). We are seriously running out of time.
That’s the problem, Trump has made us weak, because he is weak. Weak men need parades and praise.
He’s so weak & insecure that he needs to engineer situations that force people to pay homage to him. Like the cabinet meetings, where grown men & women are required to debase themselves by kissing his ass on camera. And this parade is just more of the same - an event created to feed his ego . . .😏
very well said✌🏾
It’s in the totalitarian playbook: Stalin: youtu.be/pr-aDM1ibts?...
OMFG - unbelievable . . .🤬🤯
It’s coming
It’s already here unfortunately . . . 😒
But in his weakness he is vicious and dangerous. He was given power he uses as a mad king. He is vengeful and remorseless about deaths and misery he caused with political acts: Covid, immigration, cutting of funds for housing, scientific research, public schools and more. He is a nightmare human.
Totally agree - I’d use the word EVIL 😈. The cruelty is often the point for this demented sociopath narcissist - he gets twisted pleasure from making people pay for the smallest slight. But it’s the zero empathy for those caught in the crossfire that is so cruel - he cares only about himself . . .😒
Evil just doesn’t seem to be a strong enough word these days. He’s got 24/7 unrelenting evil.
Yep - a wickedly VILE excuse for a human being. Depraved & diabolical, not just evil!
...at our expense with taxpayers money😡
The amount of money that man costs the taxpayer blows my mind - from extra secret service because of living apart from Melania, to golf resort trips every fucking weekend . . . what makes me the angriest though, is selling access to the WH for personal gain - the quid pro quo is SO corrupt . . .😤🤮
If any president or human being ever looked weak, it is definitely trump, the weakest loser in the world.
Dictator Don wants to be Putin
Yeah but what if Trump did it in the Pope's garb? I'll bet that would make him look strong.
It's a vanity project for the Cheetoh in Chief.
Weak people look weak regardless.
Some countries have parades for funerals. Trump can have one at his. I’ll volunteer to participate.
Same!
😆🤣
Pretty sure that is the national holiday we are all waiting to celebrate. And it will end up being one once we dig through the ashes of whatever is left of us at that point. Maybe the day of liberation America truly NEEDS.
Hell, I'll volunteer to help organize it (the funeral parade)!!!
Military parades have been replaced with Air Shows across America.
We -are- weak and have been for decades but no one noticed because we have a multitrillion dollar war machine at the disposal of temperamental man-children constantly competing to see who has the biggest dick, which they have mistaken for a healthy, robust society
Trump's is a little different than Red Sq. It's for his bday.
