Trump's birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms
Source: The Times (UK)
President Trumps plans to hold a military parade in Washington on his 79th birthday this Saturday are in doubt as officials consider cancelling the event due to a thunderstorm warning.
Steve Warren, chief spokesman of the US army, which is celebrating its 250th anniversary, told The Times: Rain wont stop us, the tanks dont melt, but if theres lightning then that puts the crowd at risk
they will disperse the crowd and even cancel or postpone the parade. It will depend on the president, too, when hes available.
The army has planned a day of festivities in Washington to celebrate the anniversary, culminating in a parade at 6.30pm featuring 6,600 soldiers, dozens of tanks and an astronaut tuning in from space.
A slow-moving front is forecast to move into the city from the north. Thunderstorms are most likely in the later afternoon and into the evening, when the parade would begin.
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Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z

DBoon
(24,018 posts)Bayard
(26,166 posts)I'm thinking he'll just leave those troops in DC though.

homegirl
(1,803 posts)I posted this a few days ago. Didn't think it would come from the North! ...
homegirl
a day ago
RE: WASHINGTON, D.C. 6/14/2025: The Coven has cast the spell! Remnants of mid West tornado arrive in D.C. at the beginning of the spectacle---RAIN, THUNDER, WIND AND LIGHTNING! An enormous bolt of charged electricity strikes Donald J. Trump-He Is Instantly Incinerated! A small heap of ashes, blown away by the very last gust of wind from the tornado! And a small final downpour washes the ashes into the street.
WOW! I don't drink and I don't do drugs BUT I do have a vivid, retaliatory imagination going full time!
AllaN01Bear
(26,685 posts)
ArizonaLib
(1,280 posts)No a weather person but I hope it csme from Greenland before collecting momentum in Canada.
AntiFascist
(13,579 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,731 posts)JMCKUSICK
(3,284 posts)magicarpet
(18,455 posts)Have the Sherman tanks crash through the walls of the West Wing while the DICKtator is seated at the Resolution desk in the Oval Office.
Then have the tanks, marching bands, and army guys marching in formation all through the West Wing and then crash through the opposite wall, while singing Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs.
Any damages to the White House - just add it to the trDUMP personal reimbursement accounts as Birthday Party expenses.
magicarpet
(18,455 posts)Irish_Dem
(72,738 posts)FSogol
(47,421 posts)
Moostache
(10,705 posts)The fear of divine retribution via lightning is clearly on someone's mind.
jls4561
(2,518 posts)Dulcinea
(8,796 posts)
forgotmylogin
(7,910 posts)I...raise the tarriffs and then Wall Street panics!
Don't...say the weather's bad for my Army parade!
republianmushroom
(20,785 posts)" It will depend on the president, too, when hes available. Wet muskrats don't look good on TV.
BonnieJW
(2,979 posts)Irish_Dem
(72,738 posts)slightlv
(6,197 posts)Irish_Dem
(72,738 posts)3catwoman3
(27,249 posts)That hairstyle has always looked ridiculous,and it hasn't aged well.
Irish_Dem
(72,738 posts)He looks like a clown.
hamsterjill
(16,152 posts)He's not worried about any danger to the crowd. He's worried about crowd size and the fact that Leo is going to have a BIGGER crowd.
aggiesal
(10,203 posts)Seat fillers needed for DC parade.
Compensation: Flat Fee of $1,000, paid in cryptocurrency - Provided by FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT LLC
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BigmanPigman
(53,408 posts)"T-Mellon Events is looking for seat fillers and extras to provide their time for space maximization and attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th. Extras and Seat fillers will check in on the morning of June 14th at 9:00 a.m.
Extras are required to wear Red, White and Blue clothing and will be provided a RED hat to wear. GOLD accessories are acceptable as well. The team will advise the extras where to stand or sit according to the line of sight from a VIP viewing platform area.
Extras and Seat fillers will be paid a flat daily fee and will be provided a lunch of fast food and soda.
We encourage people of color and ethnic groups to sign up for maximum perception control and these individuals will be prominently displayed on the televised broadcast and local viewing screens to be seen by the VIP platform."
Ne wants people who LOOK like immigrants to stand near him so the TV cameras can show the world how open minded he is when it comes to supporting diverse ethnicities. Suuuuuuuuure, everyone all ready knows he does this BS all the time.
hlthe2b
(110,810 posts)
Seems it might be STARTING to work, voodoo (vodou) sèvitè--at least for his parade...

riversedge
(76,806 posts)I just found mine, yesterday. I have been hunting all over the house for it.
StarryNite
(11,676 posts)I think it needs a few more pins.
rubbersole
(10,170 posts)StarryNite
(11,676 posts)
GopherGal
(2,541 posts)Or a Lightning rod?
Do they make cajun blackened Cheetos?
StarryNite
(11,676 posts)sinkingfeeling
(56,001 posts)Yellowdog-1966
(54 posts)Flattening everything in its path.
get the red out
(13,834 posts)Ya never know....
jls4561
(2,518 posts)So Hair Furor will cancel his ego boosting extravaganza if he doesnt like the weather?
Much as I would like to see the whole thing flop, I can see the spin of How disappointing for the country
instead of this was a huge expensive fiasco to begin with and it cost even more to cancel .
Plus, if Fatass45 is denied his better-than-Kim-Jong-Un display of puffery, he will want to do it again!
0rganism
(25,259 posts)The parade might be off, but there are other uses a dictator might have for a military garrison operating in the Capitol.
Harker
(16,641 posts)slightlv
(6,197 posts)I think we should inundate the IRS, trump, and everyone else with boxes full of "not with my tax dollars!" notes.
AllaN01Bear
(26,685 posts)according to the national weather service 3 day surface charts ,,, the weather looks nasty for the next 3 days including for dc.
https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/national_forecast/natfcst.php?day=3
intrepidity
(8,375 posts)I hope a lightning bolt finds its mark.
r/fuckyouinparticular (not you, poster, obviously)
William Seger
(11,739 posts)catbyte
(37,409 posts)
Moostache
(10,705 posts)SheltieLover
(72,148 posts)
IzzaNuDay
(1,013 posts)Karma coming back to bite Dementia Donald in the ass!
mac56
(17,776 posts)
Dave Bowman
(5,533 posts)Midnight Writer
(24,402 posts)Nobody rains on Trump's Parade!
Prairie Gates
(5,732 posts)
KatyaR
(3,600 posts)Why wouldn't he be available?THIS IS WHAT HE WANTED!!!
Baitball Blogger
(50,591 posts)KPN
(16,799 posts)Canada Kid
(257 posts)This may be a great opportunity! Give the Orange Idiot a long metal rod...tell him it's a magic wand and to point it straight up in the air! He should be holding Vance's hand while he does this!
catchnrelease
(2,088 posts)Tell him it would be good for his 'brand' to wave around a nine iron during the parade. The guy looked at the sun during an eclipse, he'll go for it.
colorado_ufo
(6,099 posts)With your longest driver!
Dulcinea
(8,796 posts)FakeNoose
(38,026 posts)

BigDemVoter
(4,642 posts)
Moostache
(10,705 posts)SheltieLover
(72,148 posts)
not fooled
(6,398 posts)his bald dome wouldn't be shiny and hence more visible under the wet straggly combover. Go for it, red don! Defy the weather!
lark
(25,291 posts)What a wonderful sight that would be - if only in my imagination.
mzmolly
(52,385 posts)
robbob
(3,718 posts)Any time a natural disaster strikes a blue area, but dont consider something like this a sign?

moose65
(3,387 posts)Here they go again, controlling the weather by conjuring up thunderstorms to interrupt Savior Trump's parade.
How sad. Bigly!
odins folly
(434 posts)From Georgia will be spewing that shit any time now
kimbutgar
(25,662 posts)His orange Hitler ridiculous parade. A nice thunderbolt of lighting and rain hitting him and the other cretins in his administrations sitting in the grandstand near him. I hope Miller and Vance are sitting real close to him.
I can wish and dream cant I?
Moostache
(10,705 posts)I figure that I WILL take up Pascal's Wager on this one...
Ocelot II
(126,300 posts)Even if it's just postponed, it wouldn't be on Himself's birthday. Aww.
:sad trombone:
Deep State Witch
(12,046 posts)I do mind getting struck by lightning.
Deminpenn
(16,933 posts)The Army spokesman is correct that the danger is lightening. Lightening and metal viewing stands wouldn't mix well.
I've been at prep football games where if there is lightening in the vicinity, everyone is pulled off the field and out of the stands for at least 30 minutes. Same thing if this happens at a pro game.
bigworld
(1,812 posts)In fact, the rain could work in his favor by being an easy way to explain away any low-numbering crowds.
lark
(25,291 posts)He knows his candy cane bouffant would disappear and the hideous white head shown, which his ego wouldn't tolerate. If there's actually rainy, there's no krasnov.
travelingthrulife
(2,944 posts)rzemanfl
(30,710 posts)bucolic_frolic
(51,623 posts)SheltieLover
(72,148 posts)
Hoping Mother Nature pisses all over his parade.

Exp
(454 posts)twodogsbarking
(14,621 posts)ToxMarz
(2,508 posts)Lightning could never hurt dear leader. He should stand out there with a long metal pole to prove it.
CapnSteve
(339 posts)Wind. Even worse, wind with rain.
TACO
travelingthrulife
(2,944 posts)his head.
ChazInAz
(2,933 posts)And all this time I thought it was a leucistic skunk!
Thanks for setting me sttaight.
Blue Full Moon
(2,515 posts)sakabatou
(45,133 posts)magicarpet
(18,455 posts)


Torchlight
(5,199 posts)Or an executive order fining storms if they come too close, or just call them names (admit it, his leadership style is perfectly fit for the feckless and buffoon alike).
OMGWTF
(4,859 posts)and Stinky wanted them raised for his inauguration despite that it was still the official mourning period, but they were all frozen in place.
Gary 50
(460 posts)Let's postpone the parade until Trump dies. Then, on that joyous occasion, we can have the biggest celebration in the country's history with the whole world celebrating with us. We can call it "Liberation Day."
babylonsister
(172,262 posts)ms liberty
(10,424 posts)So he scheduled it for 6-630 PM, which is great if your only thought is to make the evening news, but really, on a Saturday? No one watches the news on Saturday. The fluff puppets will all talk about it Sunday, and they prolly won't be kind. Even if it does get rained out
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,964 posts)MuseRider
(34,857 posts)bring it all back in a few months and do it all again? Of course he will want that but #1 I hope by then everyone is on to him and there will be no Biggest Birthday Party for the Bestest Boy in the world and we will be waiting to watch him deal with some scary times ahead for him.
I wonder if he can even conceive how over him we all are. Anything short of never having to know anything bout him ever again or even life in a easy boy prison would be a crime but I would take almost anything if he was just shut up and never allowed out of anywhere. NOT Mar a Lardo, even that dump is too good for him.
stillcool
(34,386 posts)a city near me?
oops....replied to you by mistake...mea culpa
Tree Lady
(12,567 posts)in DC if they cancel.
Javaman
(64,309 posts)Because it might melt him,oh cruel world! Cruel cruel world!
Demobrat
(10,192 posts)and send the storm out to sea?
generalbetrayus
(1,100 posts)ananda
(32,659 posts)if lightning strikes the crowd.
He might not want it to mess up his hair's nest
though.
Blue Owl
(56,805 posts)Hieronymus Phact
(634 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 12, 2025, 04:20 PM - Edit history (1)
Tell them this is Gods opinion of trump.
Codifer
(1,018 posts)the focus here.
The reality is that he has an ARMY with TANKS in Washington D.C.
The parade was just an excuse.
If I were an evil despot I would purge congress with these.
I hope that I am wrong. I hope it is just that all this crap has driven me fucking CRAZY.
ArizonaLib
(1,280 posts)That is the goal.
D00ver66
(10 posts)They should just do it anyway. Trump has been brought to us by god, certainly he will protect the orange jesus ? Citizens are expendable as are military to trump so why not? Maybe, just maybe god will actually show us what he thinks of this messiah. That would maybe open some eyes up.
JHB
(37,797 posts)After all, the marching orders come straight from the Kremlin.
IrishBubbaLiberal
(2,561 posts)dangerous criminals , or so Dictator Trump constantly spews to the nation
..
These are the dangerous criminals
that Trump is deporting
.
- Yard maintenance workers,
- Seamstresses,
- Street Fruit vendors,
- College students, with Visas
- High school teenager volleyball team member,
- A sick 4-year old girl with cancer deported even though she is a U.S. citizen, her mom was not.
- Day workers, construction, standing at Home Depot hoping to work that day
- Farm workers picking crops in the fields
- A Mom of 3 US children, who has lived and worked in US for 35 years
Trump is nothing but a vile racist son of a bitch asshole
with his white-supremacy White House advisor Stephen Miller, an avowed radical racist.
sprinkleeninow
(21,336 posts)mercuryblues
(15,778 posts)Come on, fess up.
rubbersole
(10,170 posts)He controls everything. Since forever. Everything bad that happens anywhere. Hannity sez so...
IronLionZion
(49,513 posts)After meeting JD Vance, the last pope had to go straight to God to deal with this tremendous evil. Now God is raining on Trump's parade. It's Biblical. God sent a plague during his last presidency.
LudwigPastorius
(13,037 posts)...maybe nuke it for good measure.
Just like mad Caligula ordering the sea be held back.
Botany
(74,872 posts)surfered
(8,188 posts)Is it a sign from God?
live love laugh
(15,687 posts)Wiz Imp
(6,277 posts)I'm sure Trump is insisting that the parade happen no matter the weather. But there must be a few people in the White House who are trying to convince him to change his mind - that a parade in the middle of a massive thunderstorm would not be a good look for him. We'll see if they succeed. My money is on the parade happening regardless of the weather.
MadameButterfly
(3,323 posts)in the summer. Late in the day thunder storms arrive more often than not. How could they have planned an event this expensive on the gamble it wouldn't happen?
Besides all the other reasons it shouldn' thave happened.
LuvLoogie
(8,170 posts)What a little baby.
mcar
(44,976 posts)flashman13
(1,421 posts)rubbersole
(10,170 posts)That way he wouldn't have to pay all the Craigslist hired attendees. A win-win!
C_U_L8R
(47,739 posts)Chi chi chicken Taco never fails to quit.
Karasu
(1,706 posts)frequent weather phenomena where that came from.
Sneederbunk
(16,336 posts)a French military cemetery.
RobinA
(10,387 posts)Didn't they accuse him of causing Hurricane Helene? Well, he's at it again. Glad he's on our side.
bdamomma
(68,901 posts)great, lightning is predicted??? is the lightning going to spoil his golf day at Mar La Loco???? if his NK parade is called off.
Hekate
(98,680 posts)Martin68
(26,227 posts)Brainfodder
(7,554 posts)Saving how much $ for FOOD AND SHELTER and that is just for all the troops he is going to use to quell protests but forget to give food and shelter?
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,964 posts)bromeando
(128 posts)God raining on felon's parade?
twodogsbarking
(14,621 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(6,248 posts)I think it should go ahead. Tempt fate... find out.
Clouds Passing
(5,423 posts)electric_blue68
(22,676 posts)🌩 BOOM! 🌩
Midnight Writer
(24,402 posts)Just wondering.
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,964 posts)
onenote
(45,504 posts)Saturday forecast:
Areas of drizzle before 11am, then a slight chance of showers between 11am and 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
3catwoman3
(27,249 posts)I have fantasized about him being struck by lightning while at one of his golf courses, but being struck by lightning while at his disgusting self-serving parade would be even better.
Marthe48
(21,377 posts)a real cloud
Too bad he pulled the military into his zone of disrespect.
AllyCat
(18,093 posts)wryter2000
(47,922 posts)Please, please
rickford66
(5,917 posts)That would be the Russian I figure.