UK paper The Guardian is calling Trump's parade his "dictator chic" parade in their headline

[highplainsdem]

Good for them...

Tanks, flypasts, missiles: what to expect at Trump’s ‘dictator chic’ military parade

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/trump-military-parade-washington

The show of military might comes just a week after Trump activated thousands of national guard troops and marines to quell protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles. Opponents draw a direct line from that crackdown to Saturday’s authoritarian display of dominance.

“He’s adopted not only the signifiers of dictator chic but the actual articles of its faith,” said Rick Wilson, a political strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group. “North Korea: military parades. China: military parades. Russia: military parades.

“These aren’t parades to celebrate a victory and it’s certainly not to celebrate the United States army’s birthday. This is a parade to aggrandise Donald Trump’s ego. No one who knows either Trump or his pattern of behavior would think for a minute this is anything else.”

The army’s 250th anniversary was originally conceived as a modest affair: a year ago it filed a permit request for an event on the National Mall featuring 300 people, a concert by the army band and the firing of four cannon. Trump’s election, however, led to a radical change of plan.

[Autumn]

1. We will always know when it comes to "dictator chic" parades Trumps will never

be done as well as North Korea's, China's and Russia's military parades.Everything in his life is a cheap immitation.

[SheltieLover]

2. Kick