They’re all examples of people who’ve done an amazing job and are being recognized more and more?
Dammit! Where’s Mayor Sadiq Khan when you need him?
I’m not sure there were actual seats, everyone appeared to be standing from CNN’s view and the fenced-off area was pretty full.
CNN also had a view from past the Reflecting Pool toward the Lincoln Memorial; that scattered crowd was pretty standard for a Fourth on the National Mall.
Yeah, they weren’t allowed to fill it with helium.
Nobody knew it could be so dry.
Actually, although little noted today, the planned flypast during the Gettysburg address was intended to be a major spectacle in its own right. Unfortunately, winds that day were light, and the speech was long over and the crowd had dispersed by the time the balloons appeared over the site.
Don’t you mean El Guapo?
Vice/Deputy leaders. The actual leaders managed to have “somewhere real” to be instead.
I can see him sitting in one of those toy cars little kids get to drive around, but the car has cardboard put up around it to look like a tank.
Were Mr. and Mrs. Khan recognized by the twerp-in-chief?
Of couse he likes the Coast Guard. They weren’t about to draft him, bone spurs or not. After all, they’re not part of the DoD.
Reading the speech for the first time or reading for the first time?
Trump, all by himself, is a bizarre spectacle.
I thought this whole spectacle was a commercial?
Hopefully she’ll be modeling the nifty white jacket with the extra long sleeves and cool straps Trump should be wearing soon.
I mentioned that in the remarks section on Yahoo, and got a couple of “thumbs down”. We already have days set aside to honor veterans, to honor those who lost their lives in combat, and to honor those currently serving. Independence Day is the day to celebrate the country as a whole and its founding values. It certainly is not a day to emulate a Red Square May Day parade.
Would that Trump were restrained, literally.
Hey, white’s a color! Doesn’t mean the nation’s president has to be a white supremacist, of course. But, hey, it is and he is.
:D:cool:
You know what other idiot was of German extraction?
They were selling mini baby Trump blimp balloons on the National Mall.
Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmm.
Lemme give it a think.
Just the Gold Star families in general; if he singled anyone out, I missed it.
Trick question!
Think Austrian.
i heard it while cleaning up the kitchen. It was a decent speech and the only thing at all political was a mention of the Space Force and how ISIS has been 100% defeated. He not only talked about the military but also the civil rights movement and women getting the vote etc. The last line was something about how if we remembered our history there is nothing we can’t do.
Can’t wait to hear people talking about how presedential he was and this that this could be a turning point for him
Is the transcript out yet? I’m seeing comments that he mentioned the soldiers defending the airfields against the British in the War of 1812 or something like that.
How is it that no one, including El Kabong, has mentioned this passage from his speech:
For the benefit of Trump supporters and other congenital idiots, USA Today dryly notes:
“There was no air travel in 18th Century America.”
and
“The battle at Fort McHenry that inspired Francis Scott Key to write ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ took place during the War of 1812, not the American Revolution.”
Isn’t the most important take-away from the speech that Trump believes there were airports during the Revolutionary War? How are the White House and Fox News going to spin this bit of idiocy? Teleprompter glitch?
Reports suggest that it was an inadvertent reading-comprehension problem, with Trump stumbling over some words:
Haven’t seen a full transcript anywhere, though. (ETA: ninja’d by commasense, I’m getting nothing but ninja’d today.)
No hot air balloons for reconnaissance?
Nope, not prior to 1783.
Always getting knocked down by trebuchets.
Well, we all know that when George Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776, he landed in Pennsylvania. Presumably, with all those troops he had with him, he was flying something like an early 1776 version of a Lockheed C-5A, and due to harsh weather conditions was flying IFR and trying to approach the runway on an ILS glideslope. But Washington discovered to his dismay that in 1776 ILS hadn’t been invented yet, so he sort of had to eyeball it, and it was this heroic landing of a big transport full of troops at the Pennsylvania airport that earned him the right to have his mug on the one-dollar bill. It must have been something like that because Trump is a stable genius and wouldn’t get this sort of thing wrong.
I did have to smile during his tribute to the Coast Guard, when he said, “Semper Paratus,” and paused, obviously expecting applause.
He got a little bit, but it was the kind like you’d hear on a golf course when a golfer makes a bad shot, but the gallery wants to be polite.
He didn’t seem to expect the subdued and seemingly puzzled applause, but he continued with, “Always Ready,” and the applause was of the “Oh, I get it now” type.
I’m glad his speechwriters included an English translation of the phrase, so he could save a little face that way. Though I highly doubt that Mr. Trump knew what the Coast Guard’s Latin motto was before today, and what it meant in English.
Can’t wait to see what the Latin motto of the Space Force will be. “Ad astra per aspera,” perhaps? No, wait, the state of Kansas got that one first.