Trump's Soviet Style parade tells you where he is headed
America will commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the June 14, 1775 founding of the U.S. Army, coinciding with his birthday, hosting a Communist-like power display to bolster his personal image
By Ray Hanania
FREE/President Trump, US Army Celebration, Soviet Military Display/Wednesday, June 11, 2025
President Trump’s ego is clearly driving the extravagant $45 million in spending to pay for a Soviet-style display of military equipment to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, which coincidentally also falls on his birthday.
There is no doubt that the entire event is designed to fuel Trump’s egomania more than it is to showcase or celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army.
The Army doesn’t need to spend $45 million to celebrate its founding, but Trump needs it to feed his insatiable ego.
Trump has ordered the military to provide tanks, missile systems, 60,000 soldiers, and dozens of fighter jets for the parade which will mirror the celebration the Soviet Union launched back in 1945 to commemorate their role in defeating the Nazis.
Soviet Dictator and “Marshall of the Soviet Union” Josef V. Stalin hosted a two-hour celebration at Moscow’s Red Square to celebrate the end of World War II. The parade included 1,800 military vehicles and equipment and more than 40,000 Soviet military personnel.
But while it was to celebrate the end of the World War II, it was also intended as a show of Stalin’s Soviet force, a power that quickly turned dark as Stalin crushed democracy in Eastern Europe, enslaved millions who challenged his tyranny as brutal and as deadly as was the Nazi occupation.
While the end of World War II was supposed to end the widespread murders of civilians by the Nazis and its European conquests, it only served to strengthen the Soviet’s move to suppress opposition to Stalin’s brutal dictatorship. In the years after the war, Stalin murdered more than 13 million people. Tens of millions of people were enslaved in the Soviet Gulag prison system.
Each year thereafter, to reinforce their power, the Soviet tyrants continued their military display as they fueled the Cold War with the West, occupied and enslaved East Berlin in Germany, and threatened the West with nuclear war.
The idea that an American would simulate that type of massive military parade is unconscionable. It sends the wrong message, not of peace but of war and conflict.
But with Trump, it takes on an even more dangerous image of an egomaniac consumed with his own image more than he is concerned about the protection of America.
Trump’s Soviet-style parade will last three hours, not two, and feature far more military equipment and military personnel.
As a military veteran, I am offended that Trump is hijacking the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the U.S. Army’s founding as an opportunity to elevate his own image and fuel his ego.
And the cost of $45 million is even more outrageous.
Although Trump asserts that costs that skyrocketed because of his wild rhetoric on tariffs have gone down, he is not telling the truth. The costs of eggs for example, did go down, but they are up 41 percent since his irresponsible ego-driven rhetoric began after his inauguration.
Trump caused prices to go up on everything, and the fact that some of those costs have fallen partially downwards, not making up for the increases, is an abomination to the intelligence of the American people.
But clearly, with the Soviet Style military parade, Trump doesn’t care about the American people. He only cares about himself.
That $45 million could be better spent to ease the costs on Americans, bolster programs for veterans, nearly 13 percent or 32,882 veterans are homeless.
Trump is definitely enjoying himself as he tries to fortify his powers and solidify his public image. Because his image is more important than the health of the American people.
My father and uncle served during World War II, my dad in the OSS in the 5th Army and my uncle in the U.S. Navy in the North Atlantic, both enlisting in the week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The image of tanks and missile systems parading through Red Square symbolized the threat facing America, not strength.
Strength was symbolized in America by reinforcing Democracy, bringing the nation together — not calling protestors people who “hate America” as Trump has shamefully claimed, and making the American people the priority of his government.
That Trump ego deficiency is not something to celebrate. It’s something to be concerned about that could easily push this country into conflict, internationally and even domestically..