Donald Trump was unhappy with his sparsely attended military parade over the weekend and blamed it on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, biographer Michael Wolff revealed.

Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a “menacing” show of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday—but got a “festive” parade instead.

“He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”

  • "He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”

    The Disaster in Chief doesn’t even know what the fuck “hamming it up” means. 🤦‍♂️

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        Precisely this. He didn’t want a happy birthday parade, he wanted an “all this equipment can be used to kill you, no matter who or where” parade. He truly believes that all the military can and should be good for is death and misery and harming the people he thinks need to hurt. In his brain, they’re his personal faceless, nameless drones to inflict violence. He’s been using ICE for this, but ICE doesn’t make him look like his cool dictator friends in the way that rolling a column of Abrams down Mulholland Drive would.

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          He also didn’t want a “250th anniversary of the Army” parade, which is what this always was and he tried to hijack.

          Trying to go through, like, the history of the army.