No more Musk, Melania MIA and TACOs for tea: The Idiocracy beds down - Trump thread #144

[Spandauer]

Second '100 days' working out much like the first, but with a Vance-proof Pope, a bigly white elephant plane, a few more legal push backs and way more grifting.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5327971-idiotam-habemus-trumpum-the-bigly-xxx-trump-thread-143

Thrillingly underwhelming response to the parade.

British levels of drizzle.

UK commentator on Sky noting that real dictators like Kim in North Korea have much better parades

Fox News are saying this will do wonders for recruitment and strike fear into their enemies. I don't think it will. The soldiers don't look proud and they certainly don't look sharp.

They were making a big thing about Trump standing and saluting the soldiers, but he obviously got bored with that because he stopped saluting and sat down. After a bit he stood up and saluted again. Then he sat down again.

They're barely even marching

Are these actual soldiers, or actors? They don't know how to march, and they look very scruffy...

There is clip of Rubio yawning

Vlad Putin is a terrible murderous prick obviously but at least there is some choreography

This is cringe.🙈

What music are they using?

Bad guitar solo.

Man it's bad

Enter Sandman by Metallica currently

Sky have switched to the No Kings protest in LA. Tear gas being fired

I heard Van Halen too.

It's not good military music. You can't march to it. Do they not have army bands in the US?

It's not like there isn't a tradition of marching bands for stuff like American football teams doing pop covers either (Tusk for instance

https://youtube.com/shorts/ExCspEEvtOc?si=iMGAMAJ6zg4AF1Wg)

I thought it would be something like this

Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival

https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.lol/post/3lrm4ekho5k2b

He just came on to "God Save the King".

I know there's an American version, but fuck me!

So, it turned out to be an underwhelming and boring event, DonOld was struggling to keep his eyes open, Melania was smiling and the couple even left early?

A day of peaceful mass protests.

Didn't stay up to watch any live coverage so catching up now. It looks/sounds like it was a pretty miserable affair!
(Nice bit of drizzle 🌧️ - thanks @JoshLymanSwagger)

Maybe the troops hadn't been given any time to prepare - marching to music etc. It did look a bit rag-tag in places.

The music choice seemed like it had come straight off Trump's list of fav songs he plays at his rallies! Apparently he does play Fortunate Son so presumably he has no idea of the meaning behind the lyrics!

The Pope had sunshine

They sure do ...

On second thoughts, maybe not ....

@Spandauer I do my best. 😎
Maybe next time I need less practice. 🤔

I saw that Donald Trump today.

He looked fat.

(Stewart Lee fans will make hay with this. Both of them.)

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My Country Tis of Thee.

Bluesky pondering if the shambling along was part of a malicious compliance by pissed off troops

This guy Doug Landry has organised parades with far less notice. It was actually a good thing it was so poorly attended BC there were bottlenecks and everyone being funnelled through one checkpoint

https://x.com/dougblandry/status/1934052056878243848

Via Nitter version

https://nitter.net/dougblandry/status/1934052056878243848#m

So did Trooping the Colour.

Crisp, professional, visually glorious.

Given what you'd expect the British weather to do, that's also got a whiff of the divine 😇