# Goose Step **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [July 2, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604 "2024-07-02T01:03:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/1 "2024-07-02T01:03:09Z")
If Trump (God Forbid!), wins the election, will our military be required to “Goose Step” when they march? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/2 "2024-07-02T01:28:11Z")
I think you have to be more specific, given that the other dictators he loves rule over militaries employing different versions of the [goose step](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_step). Which dictator does he love the most? (I mean besides himself.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/3 "2024-07-02T01:35:59Z")
I’m going to say no. Trump didn’t have the military goose stepping in his first term. So apparently that particular form of homage is one that doesn’t appeal to him. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/4 "2024-07-02T01:39:46Z")
Well, [they kind of already do.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dgxQIicqw&pp=ygUSbWFyaW5lcyBnb29zZSBzdGVw) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/5 "2024-07-04T02:02:22Z")
Yeah really. Fancy/Silly Marches of one nature or another are equal-opportunity affectations on the part of militaries of all sorts of ideological leanings and martial traditions. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/6 "2024-07-04T02:09:54Z")
Are you crazy? Marching wears out their exercise batteries! > **[Donald Trump thinks exercise will kill you](https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/9/15590962/donald-trump-thinks-exercise-will-kill-you)** > > Which doctors believed … in the Victorian era.  They’ll be issued Trump-branded golf carts (at their expense, naturally) for their reviews. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/7 "2024-07-04T05:19:03Z")
Trump doesn’t particularly like the military. (He’s more partial to MAGA militias.) I can’t imagine him taking the slightest interest in their marching style. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/8 "2024-07-04T06:51:05Z")
The trappings of American Fascism will be American, not German. That’s the whole point. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/9 "2024-07-04T17:13:18Z")
It’s easy to find know-it-alls who’d see any photo of a German from the 1940’s and say “obviously Nazis.” Even this photo: [![](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/Eek2yt1SVYW-FucpTGCWZaewjYk=/1000x750/filters:no_upscale():focal(700x527:701x528)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/db/14/db14b821-90ae-4407-8a69-4588e11a5fe8/white_rose.png) ](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/Eek2yt1SVYW-FucpTGCWZaewjYk=/1000x750/filters:no_upscale():focal(700x527:701x528)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/db/14/db14b821-90ae-4407-8a69-4588e11a5fe8/white_rose.png) Future know-it-alls could look at any photo of an American from our era, no matter the subject’s class, race or grooming style, and say “obviously MAGA.” And maybe they’d be right, for all their facile ignorance. Although ignorance is what causes it to happen over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/10 "2024-07-04T17:17:33Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > It’s easy to find know-it-alls who’d see any photo of a German from the 1940’s and say “obviously Nazis.” Even this photo: Do you think maybe it would help to explain why “even this photo”? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/11 "2024-07-04T18:14:46Z")
Apologies to anyone who didn’t recognize Sophie Scholl. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/12 "2024-07-09T17:36:23Z")
I fear that when he dies, those of us who don’t exhibit uncontrollable grief will be sent off to the gulag. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/13 "2024-07-09T17:46:38Z")
I figure he’s tacky enough to readily wear epaulets if A) he knew what they’re called and B) he could successfully speak or spell it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/14 "2024-07-09T18:51:12Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Trump didn’t have the military goose stepping in his first term. But he did want a military parade. Who knows how he would have expected them to walk? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goose-step/1003604/15 "2024-07-09T22:07:22Z")
After serving over 25 years in the army I can say that one thing we are really bad at is drill and ceremony. Once you get out of basic and aside for a few small ceremonial units, they do very little beyond knowing how to stand in formation. Goose stepping is too advanced.