Post by trueblue on Aug 8, 2022 23:39:32 GMT
Trump didn’t want ‘wounded’ soldiers in military parade: ‘Doesn’t look good for me’
Former president Donald Trump once ordered US military officials to exclude combat-wounded soldiers from the Soviet-style military parade he wanted held during his term in the White House, according to a new book by two veteran Washington reporters.
In an excerpt from their forthcoming chronicle of Mr Trump’s presidency, The Divider, journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser reveal that Mr Trump got the idea for a military parade when he witnessed Bastille Day festivities during a 2017 visit to France.
The authors reported that Pentagon officials were not enthused with the idea, which one general said was more akin to the dictatorship he fled as a child than the government he had spent a lifetime serving as an adult.
But Mr Trump pressed on with the idea to replicate France’s annual parade, save for one feature he disliked.