The Media Research Center’s coverage of President Trump’s military parade/birthday celebration kicked off with the June 13 hate-watch of “The View” by NIcholas Fondacaro, who pretended the two were not linked:
According to the unhinged conspiracy theorists of ABC News’s The View on Friday’s episode, not only was President Trump a master manipulator of people, he was apparently also a master manipulator of the space-time continuum. They found it suspicious that Trump shared a birthday with the U.S. Army; and instead of celebrating their 250 years of defending America, several cast members bashed the soldiers who would be marching in Washington, D.C. on Saturday by equating them to Nazis, Russians, and North Koreans.
“Tanks will be rolling through the nation’s capital along with 7,000 marching soldiers to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States Army,” warned fill-in moderator Joy Behar, “and it happens to be his 79th birthday! What a coincidence!”
“And it’s on his birthday! It’s on his birthday!” she doubled down on the conspiracy theory later in the show. At no point did any of her fellow cast members attempt to debunk the conspiracy theory.
The U.S. Army was founded in 1775 as the Continental Army by the Continental Congress to fight against Great Britain, a fact known to history. 171 years later, in 1946, Trump was born in New York. It’s the very definition of a coincidence, and at no point did Behar explain what she specifically found unbelievable about it.
If we want to use her extremely dim logic, Behar must be in league with Hamas because her birthday is October 7, 1942. One year after she was born, the Japanese executed nearly 100 American POWs on Wake Island during WWII. “What a coincidence!”
Alex Christy huffed in response to one commentator arguing that the purpose of the parade, along with Trump’s heavy-handed response to protests in Los Angeles, was”to create the conditions that would allow the president to invoke the Insurrection Act.: “The Insurrection Act doesn’t even allow for the suspension of elections. Furthermore, there is a possibility that Saturday’s parade could be cancelled due to lightning storms, but people who aspire to cancel elections usually do not put their dictatorial plans at the mercy of the weather.” Christy further huffed in response other complaints about the parade:
All three of the main broadcast networks suggested that President Trump’s decision to put on a Saturday parade for the Army’s 250th birthday was a waste of money, but only Friday’s NBC Nightly News went so far as to compare it to “North Korea and Russia.”
Kelly O’Donnell reported that the parade would include “7,000 soldiers, 150 Army vehicles, and more than 60 aircraft expected to draw thousands of visitors, and the potential for protests.”
[…]The irony is that Trump’s desire to have a big military parade dates back to his first term when he visited France and witnessed their Bastille Day parade. Perhaps O’Donnell could’ve told the “No Kings” movement that France is a democracy and Bastille Day was a key event in the French Revolution that ultimately saw the French literally behead their king. While George III kept his head, he did lose his colonies. If nothing else, the existence of the parade will hopefully cause the American people to reflect on the history of their army.
Jorge Bonilla served up his own whine about ABC’s parade coverage:
Budgeting and planning for the parade, which kicks off America’s 250th birthday celebration (work with me, it’s less of a mouthful than sesqui quincentennial), was established far in advance of President Donald Trump’s re-election this past November. However, this didn’t stop Mary Bruce (sitting in for Linsey Davis) from doing Mary Brucey things and saying “Trump finally getting his military parade).
[…]Stop for a second and consider this short shrift in contrast to what coverage of this parade might have looked at under a President Kamala Harris. I will note for the record that recent past Pride parades drew significantly more coverage, by orders of magnitude, than did the Army’s 250th birthday. At ABC News, Trump-deranged coverage remains the first order of business, even over the beginning of a year-long celebration of America’s freedom.
Something tells us that Bonilla would not have celebrated this parade under a President Harris due to his Democrat derangement. Intern Lucas Escala got the assignment to complain about CBS’ coverage of the parade:
CBS Mornings’ coverage Monday of the military parade President Donald Trump hosted for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army on Flag Day showcased the new narrative liberal media was trying to spin on the story. Earlier coverage attempted to push the notion that this parade was really a celebration of the President’s birthday, an authoritarian show of force akin to those in North Korea. But after the parade, which was, much to the liberal media’s surprise, just a parade celebrating the 250th birthday of the Army, it was no longer considered a threat, but rather a flop compared to liberal protests.
CBS reporter Nikole Killion immediately targeted the attendance rates of the parade, hoping to show that this event failed to impress: “The White House claimed over 250,000 showed up, but there were plenty of empty seats and spaces along the National Mall. Some left early as potential storms threatened the event.”
While the White House’s numbers may be somewhat skewed, the 250,000 estimated attendees would have still exceeded the original prediction of 200,000 spectators even if not exact. But rather than credit the turnout, Killion downplayed the event.
Of course, as CBS harped on how attendance was low, they continued to highlight concerns over the high costs. As Killion explained it: “The price tag for the parade is estimated between $25 million and $45 million with the Army agreeing to pick up the tag to any damage to D.C. roads because of those heavy tanks.”
This estimated $45 million cost was not just being frivolously thrown out by Trump to celebrate his birthday as the media liked to make it out to seem.
We suspect that under a President Harris, the parade’s cost would be the first thing the MRC would bring up.