My god.

Sometimes we are forced to wonder what it would be like to live under Trump if he was totally unconstrained by norms and institutional barriers. Not that he’s unwilling to break whatever he can get away with. He is. There was a point – like four years ago – that had a president even expressed a desire to pardon his buddies who kept their mouths shut in an investigation, that president would not only be impeached but quite possibly prosecuted. That is not hyperbole. The White House under every other president had a standard-issue answer about any criminal case: “The White House doesn’t comment on ongoing investigations or criminal matters.” This guy trolls jurors by name and pardons friends!

So it really is worrisome that his dream inauguration celebration involved military pageantry to the point Trump actually said “Make it look like North Korea.” The details come from Wolkoff (the most revealing look inside so far) and it is stunning: From Politico

Donald Trump wanted his inauguration to look like a North Korean military parade. When discussing the parade with Winston Wolkoff and Ivanka during the transition, Trump said: “I want tanks and choppers. Make it look like North Korea,” he told them. Winston Wolkoff wrote: “He really wanted goose-stepping troops and armored tanks? That would break tradition and terrify half the country.”

We do need note that the White House denied the above. But given that Trump begged for essentially the same thing for the Fourth of July, we give it as much weight as any Trump denial.

A military parade!!!

Who the hell wants to lead a country in which the first celebration involves showing off all the different ways they can kill people?

“I want tanks and choppers.” Fck-you.

Most people contemplating being president and having a parade would want a whole bunch of “real Americans” out there with them, making the point that this country specifically rejects the idea that a military makes it great. Our military IS great, but it’s great in part because it’s “ours” and not the personal fighting force of any one man or woman.

But to get back to where we started, the only thing that stopped him from having Abrams tanks and Apache gunships rolling through and over DC so loud one couldn’t hear oneself think is that everyone else thought it was the stupidest fcking idea ever. Imagine what Trump would come up with if those people weren’t around?

He would create the single biggest banner ever made, put his orange head on it, and hang it over the capital, just like Lenin, or Mao. And we don’t want to contemplate what he’d actually “do” to people from there.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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