In a recent episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, the panel discussed President Trump's planned military parade. Guests included Barry Diller, Jake Tapper, and Rep. Seth Moulton, who humorously critiqued the parade idea, calling it a reflection of Trump's admiration for authoritarian leaders. Moulton mocked Trump as a draft dodger trying to create a military spectacle, while Tapper pointed out the wastefulness of such an event amidst budget cuts for veterans. Maher expressed concern over normalizing military displays in American streets, highlighting the potential threats to democratic values and social order.
Well, it's, you know, he's a draft dodger. It's his first military thing that he really gets to do. But I think obviously. He likes Putin, he worships Kim Jong-un. He wants to be like that. That's what he wants to do, he wants to be a dictator like those guys and they have big military.
I guess I don't like the, I mean, to me the worst part of it is getting used to the sight of tanks in the streets. That is something we don't see in America.
I mean it seems to me like if we're taking seriously the idea that our government spends too much money, that dog comes in there and like says okay we need to cut eighty thousand jobs from the department of veterans affairs.
As a driver in Washington, D.C., like our roads are bad enough before the tanks go.
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