Donald Trump Cancels His Stupid Dictator Parade Over HUGE Cost Estimate!

Once again Donald Trump has been forced to back down from one of his horrible ideas.
And of course he’s scrambling for others to blame.
The POTUS had been insisting on a dictator-style military parade in celebration of him, complete with tanks rolling through the streets of Washington, D.C.
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But on Friday he tweeted he had canceled it, and that it was his decision because he was being highballed on the cost:
 

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

How much was too much?
Well, there seems to be some discrepancy there.
D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser seemed to think the President was subtweeting her:

Yup, I’m Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, the local politician who finally got thru to the reality star in the White House with the realities ($21.6M) of parades/events/demonstrations in Trump America (sad). https://t.co/vqC3d8FLqx

— Muriel Bowser (@MurielBowser) August 17, 2018

But on Thursday, a Department of Defense official actually leaked to CNBC that the Pentagon’s latest estimate for the November parade was $92 MILLION!
That cost wasn’t just for closing D.C. streets either, but for transporting assets, paying troops, and setting up security.
Remember, this was ALWAYS a big, dumb idea.
Maybe someone finally pointed out to Trump how bad that would look? You know, when that money could be going to health costs for actual war veterans??
[Image via Dutch Press Photo/WENN.]