'Worst Executed Mass Attendance Event I've Ever Seen'

Monday, June 16, 2025

Doug Landry, who plans professional events like the Trump birthday parade, writes, "I just got back from the Trump parade and I have to say it was legitimately the worst executed mass attendance event I've ever seen. One overarching thought: how do you spend $80 million and fumble the basics?"

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The real question is: How much did Trump make on his parade? I'll wager the grift extended far and wide for this display of public onanism...

#1 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-16 08:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"One overarching thought: how do you spend $80 million and fumble the basics?"

This is a feature, not a bug, of any Trump event.

In 2017, the Trump inaugural raised $107 million, a total far in excess of what the committee spent on its events. The committee " whose top staff included notorious crooks like Rick Gates and Elliot Broidy " never presented any accounting of its expenditures, let alone an audit. Tens of millions of dollars simply disappeared.
www.nationalmemo.com

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-06-16 08:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

How much did Trump make on his parade? I'll wager the grift extended far and wide for this display of public onanism...

#1 | POSTED BY CATDOG

We al know that he stole millions.

And the slouched "marching" by the troops?

That was a protest by men who know ----------- when they see it.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-16 09:03 AM | Reply

You know it's really weird to see what you guys post here and then to go out into the real world and listen to what real people actually think.

No one I know of in the real world has this point of view. And yes, I do socialize with liberals too.

No one, who is a real american, thinks that it was "the worst attended" anything. You people are sick.

#4 | Posted by boaz at 2025-06-16 09:11 AM | Reply | Funny: 3

Even the------------- knows it was a flop.

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#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-16 09:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"go out into the real world"

Where I live and work.

They got women, and pigs, and everything.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-16 09:49 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

No one, who is a real american, thinks that it was "the worst attended" anything.

#4 | POSTED BY BOAZ

I don't know if it was the worst attended.

I do know that Trump thought it was a flop.

As witness his threatening people on social media a little later, which he always does when he suffers a narcissistic injury,

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-16 09:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This parade was such a shame and embarrassment for the United States. There's no way around it. Playing "Fortunate Son" summed it all up. What a shame, too. Clearly this was not a practiced parade event. It wasn't joyous. It seemed - sad.

250 years is significant and worth properly acknowledging. I did congratulate and thank my Army friends/acquaintances over the weekend for 250 years and their service.

This was just another example of "everything Trump touches dies."

#8 | Posted by YAV at 2025-06-16 09:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

No one I know of in the real world has this point of view. And yes, I do socialize with liberals too.
#4 | Posted by boaz

Or maybe, and hear me out, those you interact with IRL know that reasoning with you or other MAGAts is, at best, an exercise in futility. And that, at worst, it could easily result in one of you people pulling out a gun and going Full R-word?

A dramatic reenactment:

Entitled, delusional, angry Republican agitator screams at protesters and then gets arrested for attempting to pull her gun out.[image or embed]" StrictlyChristo ... ... " (@strictlychristo.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM

#9 | Posted by censored at 2025-06-16 09:55 AM | Reply

You people are sick.

#4 | Posted by boaz at 2025-06-16 09:11 AM | Reply | Flag:PFFFFTTTT

wow imagine that... a Trumpanzee voter calling me sick...

Well... my own two eyes say it may not have been the lowest ever... (no way to prove that)... but for sure it was poorly attended... for all the brouhaha... of that there is no doubt...

How about that Boaz-0? Does that feel better?

Besides Boaz-0... he didn't do it for you... or the Army... he did it for Tehran...

It was a little pimp like on his part.

#10 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-16 10:06 AM | Reply

BOAZ has his fee fees hurt cause everything his cult master touches turns into runny butt-mud, and then the world notices, then points and laughs.

He wonders how its possible that "Real Americans" can not love the Fuhrer as much as he does.

He reminds me of the Nazi in "Springtime For Hitler".

The parade was naught but a griftastic Happy Birthday 'Trump kisses the mirror' event costing hundreds of millions, demanded by Drumph while he eviscerates funding to support Vets Health Care.

BOAZO loves Hair Fuhrer more than his Brothers in arms.

The poorly executed Trump-onanism was deeply resented by helpless taxpayers who decided to stay away by the millions, and, in stead attended NO Kings Day all across the land.

Tone deaf BOZO scolds the nation. And coming from him, it's Funny AF, ain't it.

#11 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-06-16 10:08 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

One overarching thought: how do you spend $80 million and fumble the basics?

People...these aren't mistakes. This wasn't "fumbled."

It's done as cheaply as possible while charging as much as possible.

And it looked and sounded as cheap as possible.

I couldn't imagine being one of the guys from the 10th mountain division who has trained for years and is part of a preeminent military unit...to have to march down a DC street to Barracuda playing like some cheap wedding reception at a Hilton somewhere.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-16 10:21 AM | Reply

No one, who is a real american

This idiot's desperation is palpable.

The only "real" anything that describes you is a "real" leech.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-16 10:23 AM | Reply

It ended up costing between $1,000 and $1,600 per attendee.

#14 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-16 11:08 AM | Reply

Ever notice that Boaz rarely posts twice in the same article? As an agitator wannabe, he's at the bottom of the heap.

#15 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-06-16 11:26 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

How much did it cost to get Melanoma to attend?

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-16 11:27 AM | Reply

well, it is pretty well known that the Left hates the Military and Police and this article proves that........again

#17 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-06-16 12:28 PM | Reply

The------------- calls the troops suckers and losers.

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-16 12:32 PM | Reply

And yes, I do socialize with liberals too.

No one, who is a real american, thinks that it was "the worst attended" anything. You people are sick.

#4 | POSTED BY BOAZ

It was embarrassing and humiliating and even heartbreaking for the vets who HAD to participate and for the vets who could NOT attend because of Trumpy's hateful policies it was just sad.

And I imagine you think that "socializing" with liberals means flinging your feces at them.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-16 12:48 PM | Reply

This parade was such a shame and embarrassment for the United States. There's no way around it. Playing "Fortunate Son" summed it all up. What a shame, too. Clearly this was not a practiced parade event. It wasn't joyous. It seemed - sad.
250 years is significant and worth properly acknowledging. I did congratulate and thank my Army friends/acquaintances over the weekend for 250 years and their service.
This was just another example of "everything Trump touches dies."
#8 | Posted by YAV at 2025-06-16 09:53 AM

Right after Highway To Hell and is followed by In The Navy. Beerhall be bumpin'.;]

#20 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-06-16 01:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 1