The Veterans Day military parade slated for this fall in Washington, D.C. has been canceled, with President Donald Trump saying it may be rescheduled for next year “when the cost comes WAY DOWN.”
Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said the Department of Defense and the White House “have now agreed to explore opportunities in 2019,” the Associated Press reports.
The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up! I will instead…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
….attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date, & go to the Paris parade, celebrating the end of the War, on November 11th. Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we can buy some more jet fighters!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2018
A recent report on the planned parade said it would cost an estimated $92 million.
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