As the National Guard and Marines deployed by him bashed protesters on the West Coast decrying massive immigration sweeps, the POTUS was getting ready for a big beautiful birthday bash in Washington, DC.
A beautiful military parade with armored tanks, combat aircraft and thousands of soldiers dressed in historical garb, was set to roll down Constitution Avenue Saturday to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary — which just happens to be his own 79th birthday.
Forecast of stormy weather threatened to cast a dampener on the parade rivaling similar shows from Kartavya Path in New Delhi, to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to the Champs-Élysées in Paris, that would end with parachutists descending to present a flag to him.
“We will celebrate a spectacular military parade in Washington, D.C., like no other,” Trump posted to Truth Social last week. “It’s going to be better and bigger than any parade we’ve ever had in this country.”
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He was determined to hold the parade that may cost upto $ 45 million, “RAIN OR SHINE.” So was the ‘No Kings’ movement planning more than 2,000 protests across all 50 states to reject “authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of our democracy.”
Starting with Los Angeles, where Trump has deployed at least 2,000 National Guards and 300 Marines, demonstrators have spread in cities across the nation, including New York, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Las Vegas and Washington, DC.
Ahead of the parade, in a major victory for Trump, a federal appeals court paused a lower court ruling holding as unlawful his use of National Guard troops in California without Governor Gavin Newsom’s consent.
Thanking the Appeals Court, Trump bashed “Incompetent Gavin NewScum,” saying “If it weren’t for me getting the National Guard into Los Angeles, it would be burning to the ground right now!”
But he bristled at the planned ‘No Kings’ protests telling amused Republican lawmakers and political allies in the White House Thursday, “I don’t feel like a king, I have to go through hell to get stuff approved.”
“A king would say ‘I’m not going to get this.’ A king wouldn’t even have the California mandate to even be talking,” he said referring to the joint resolutions of Congress that he had just signed blocking California’s effort to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles.
“No, no. We’re not a king,” said Trump who had back in February jocularly likened himself to a King complete with a fake ‘TRUMP’ magazine cover in a fight with the New York Governor over congestion pricing in New York City. “We’re not a king at all, thank you very much.”
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Trump’s MAGA supporters too called for a boycott of Walmart after its heiress Christy Walton took out a full page advertisement in The New York Times calling upon people to participate in the June 14 ‘No Kings’ protests.
“It may be time to #BoycottWalmart. #ChristyWalton, heiress of @Walmart has lost her mind in thinking she can fund revolutions against the American people/consumers,” wrote X user Shaughn_A even as the retailer distanced itself from the ad.
Trump and Walmart have clashed before. After Walmart said tariffs would force it to hike prices on some goods, the president suggested that the retail giant should “eat the tariffs” instead of raising prices for consumers.
As another appeals court paused a trade court ruling holding Trump’s tariffs illegal till July 31 amid ongoing trade talks with nations around the world, Trump crowed about a deal ‘done’ with China after two days of talks in London.
Under the agreement, China would relax its restrictions on shipments of rare earth minerals and magnets critical for some U.S. manufacturers. In return, the U.S. would not impose visa restrictions on Chinese students and would relax limits it had placed on some U.S. exports.
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The levies between the two countries will remain unchanged, and a 90-day pause in implementing some of the tariffs will expire in August. A New York Times analyst suggested the agreement “appears to merely unwind the damage and escalation from the president’s own trade war” without any progress toward a new trade deal.”
Just a day later, the ever mercurial president sent the markets back into turmoil with a threat to set unilateral ‘take it or leave it’ tariffs on trading partners in the next two weeks.
But according to Fortune, former first buddy Elon Musk’s “regret” about his posts regarding Trump excited investors more than the China deal as it gave markets something to cheer about.
His simple 15-word ‘regret’ that his posts last week about Trump “went too far,” gave Tesla investors hope that a rapprochement between the two would save the EV company from bitter state-led retaliation.
That may or may not come about, but a red Tesla bought by Trump to support his cost-cutter ‘Dogefather’ was gone from the White House.
Meanwhile, even as a World Bank report suggested the 2020s could be the weakest decade of economic growth since the 1960s largely due to Trump’s tariffs, he went back to drumming up support for “THE GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL (which) WILL GROW THE ECONOMY LIKE IT HAS NEVER GROWN BEFORE.”
Economists fear the bill may add about $2.3 trillion to the national deficit, but Trump claimed that “it is cutting expenses by 1.6 trillion dollars,” and touted a $1,000 bonus for the new born under “child Trump Accounts” — “fully funded through targeted reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill…”
And amid his war on illegal Immigrants, he offered a path to U.S. citizenship to the world’s super rich – “FOR FIVE MILLION $DOLLARS, THE TRUMP CARD IS COMING!”
“The opportunity to live in the Greatest Country, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with the largest Economy in the World, is here,” he wrote on Truth Social. “THE WAITING LIST IS NOW OPEN.”