Trump's Birthday Military Parade Is Offering Top Donors 'VIP Experience'

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Source: The Daily Beast

Trump’s Birthday Military Parade Is Offering Top Donors ‘VIP Experience’

The parade will reportedly cost as much as $45 million, an expense that will be passed on to taxpayers.

Ewan Palmer
Reporter

Updated May 16 2025 12:27PM EDT
Published May 16 2025 10:19AM EDT

Donors can secure a “dedicated VIP experience” at upcoming military events for President Donald Trump, including a proposed large-scale parade on his birthday.

Supporters who contribute to America250, a nonprofit planning events to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, are being offered exclusive access to Trump-backed events this summer, The Wall Street Journal reported.

That includes a massive parade to mark the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary featuring dozens of tanks, thousands of marching troops, and military aircraft flying over Washington, D.C., planned for June 14, the day the president turns 79.

The VIP treatment will also extend to a “readiness demonstration” involving thousands of troops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on June 10, as well as a July 4 Independence Day bash in Washington, D.C.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-birthday-military-parade-is-offering-top-donors-vip-experience/

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-birthday-military-parade-offering-141932559.html

[Walleye]

1. Every person in the country should be a VIP to a president. We the people.

Trump is hellbent on making us into a monarchy with him as king of course. I, for one, am not impressed in the least

[Blaukraut]

2. Everything is a grift for this guy

He‘d probably find a way to make a buck out of selling his shit stained underwear online. Signed in sharpie, of course.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Selling tickets to a parade paid for by the American people.

[Deuxcents]

4. I am about to lose it 🤮

[Irish_Dem]

6. I am angry about treating the US military like dancing bears and circus monkeys.

All to entertain Trump and fluff up his ego.

[LuckyLib]

8. If I were in the military and ordered to march in the Dumpster's parade

I would come down with a case of the flu — intestinal, of course.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. You nailed it Irish Dem. Every taxpayer should be outraged over this.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. What they need is a "dedicated Anwar Sadat experience." nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Draft dodgers do not deserve a military parade

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The only parade the taxpayers should be paying for with Trump is his final one.

$92 Million dollars is unacceptable to spend on a draft dodger’s birthday present/military parade.

You can’t push for wasteful spending cuts AND allow a draft dodger to have his ego boost.