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Is this how you Make America Great - by tanks rolling down the street in your honor and chanting "Heil Trump"?

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The second highest-ranking US general told Trump his idea for a big military parade in DC is 'what dictators do,' report says

The second highest-ranking US general told former President Donald Trump that his idea for a big military parade in Washington, DC, is "what dictators do," a new report said.

Trump, as has been previously reported, crafted the idea for a military parade after witnessing a lavish Bastille Day celebration in Paris in 2017. He wanted to top it with one of his own during the Fourth of July holiday.

Top US generals and officials, however, were less thrilled about the idea, according to an excerpt from a forthcoming book by journalists Susan Glasser and Peter Baker that was published Monday by the New Yorker.


James Mattis, then Trump's defense secretary, said he would "rather swallow acid," and other officials said it would cost millions and damage the roads.

At one White House meeting, when Trump addressed his idea with Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, then the second highest-ranking general as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the general suggested the idea was reminiscent of something often seen in dictatorships.

When Trump asked Selva what he thought of the parade, Selva responded that he grew up in Portugal, which "was a dictatorship — and parades were about showing the people who had the guns."

"And in this country, we don't do that," Selva said, according to the report. "It's not who we are."

Trump then asked Selva if he didn't like the idea, to which he responded: "No," adding that "it's what dictators do."

This is what he wants to his adoring fans

Is this how you Make America Great - by tanks rolling down the street in your honor and chanting Heil Trump?
Is this how you Make America Great - by tanks rolling down the street in your honor and chanting "Heil Trump"?
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