"They were supposed to have tanks."

[Different Drummer]

Welcome To Trump’s Taxpayer Funded “Salute to America” (Just Don’t Expect to See the Tanks)

By Morgan Baskin Jul 4, 2019

Source: Vice News

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But the president would not arrive for several more hours. Black clouds threatened to bring thunderstorms to the event area. And visitors had no access to the tanks and armored vehicles Trump promised at the rally, visible only to the Republican donors and allies with access to the VIP seating area adjacent to the monument.

That disappointed Anthony Miller, a Trump supporter from Kansas City, Missouri, who said that he “was looking for the tanks, they were supposed to have tanks.”

”I’ve been looking all up and down the parade and asking everybody where they’re at, and I haven’t seen no tanks yet,” Miller said. “Well, imagine that. We’re paying for ‘em but we can’t see ‘em.”

Though several thousand attendees strong, the crowd appeared thin by late afternoon, with only the access areas directly in front of the Lincoln Memorial and jumbotrons full. A typical Fourth of July would fill the National Mall from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol.

More at: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/paj9gv/welcome-to-trumps-taxpayer-funded-salute-to-america-just-dont-expect-to-see-the-tanks

[Lochloosa]

1. No words.

[tblue37]

3. And no tanks. nt

[tblue37]

2. K&R. nt

[alphafemale]

4. They are the fantastic and new INVISIBLE tanks!

Tell him that.

He'll believe it.

[OhZone]

6. Stealth tanks!

Oh Yeah!

[Aristus]

5. You want to climb around inside tanks?

Join the Army, hammerhead.

I was a tanker. Love it. Had the time of my life. But you have to have drive, discipline, and a desire to serve something bigger than yourself. So, too bad for you...

[Hortensis]

7. Takeaway: Military refused to come through

for the wannabe military dictator. There could’ve been plenty of tanks, far too many for a small section to see, but weren’t.

[Ilsa]

8. Next year, just fill some tank balloons with helium

And float them in the parade. Then everyone can look up and see the floating tanks.

[TeamPooka]

24. and trump will call it the Space Force

[exboyfil]

26. Potemkin Villages anyone

[DeminPennswoods]

28. Ghost Army

- a real thing during WWII.

[Ilsa]

29. Yes, I remember the history of those as well

as country bonfires designed to look like city blocks burning, so the Germans would be distracted away from real cities. It worked well, too, like the Ghost Army to confuse them as to Allied plans.

[SMC22307]

9. You want to see tanks, MAGAT? Join the Army.

"...haven't seen no tanks yet."

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Want to see tanks? Drive to the nearest National Guard armory.

[Sugar Smack]

11. Maybe THIS will be *the thing it takes* for some of them to say

they've finally had it. Fingers crossed, as usual.

[guillaumeb]

13. Not at all.

The always fooled are consistent in that they are always fooled.

[Sugar Smack]

16. Whenever I look at the Twtter site "Trump Regrets",

I see tweets by some people who just have the damnedest reasons, after everything, to switch off their support.

[guillaumeb]

17. But they voted for a reality television clown.

Which makes them no better.

[guillaumeb]

12. Poor Mr. Miller.

Another one fooled by the Trump con.

My guess is that he will also be fooled again and again every time a con man talks to him.

[lunatica]

20. Like Lucy fooling Charlie Brown with the football.

It works every single time.

[UpInArms]

14. "I haven't seen no tanks yet"

Oh my ... so erudite and educated

Smh

All the way from KC ...

🤦🏽?♀️

[Different Drummer]

15. I take his statement to mean that he *did* see tanks.

At least that's the way he expressed it.

[llmart]

18. Oh, give him a break...

At least he didn't say "I ain't seen no tanks yet." He probably thought he was very eloquent.

[Everyman Jackal]

19. "I haven't seen no tanks yet"

Keep looking. I am sure you will find where they keep the no tanks.

[Doc_Technical]

21. If he wanted to see tanks in DC, he was 87 years too late

http://www.ushistory.org/us/48c.asp

[AJT]

22. Another trumpster with a great grasp of the english language...

"and I haven’t seen no tanks yet,” Miller said"

and I haven't seen no intelligent trump humpers.

[gldstwmn]

23. Hillary would have let you see the tanks.

[NCjack]

25. MAGAt Millerski should go home to Russia. Lots of tanks in parades there. nt

[ProudLib72]

27. When I was little, like six or seven, I went to a war museum and got to climb on the tanks

It was the middle of summer in Ft Worth, TX, and I was wearing shorts. Guess who couldn't climb down off the tanks once he was up there because he couldn't touch the metal it was so damned hot?

I'm thinking the military did not deploy a bunch of tanks on the Mall in order to keep foolish little MAGAts from burning their fair skin and then trying to sue.