goodwill for our armed forces around the country since we haven t done it for so long and since we ve been at war since 9/11 the more i think you know, what these guys have been fighting our battles and they deserve to be honored and if it costs a little bit of money to do it maybe we could do it ch p cheaper in a different place than washington but i think we ought to do it. $92 million is a lot of dough. go ahead, rick. well, look, i think my friend scott is right on the point, honoring our troops is a meritorious action. i think this parade, unfortunately, was about aggrandizing donald trump s ego because he likes things that go boom. and he was very much wanting to have himself as the sort of gener generalissimo figure to be watching over the troops parading past to honor him. i don t think donald trump really has, you know, anything beyond his own personal image and his own personal ego involved in this thing. and it s almost juvenile in the way he obsesses about this particul
but i do think there are a lot of things the military could be doing in terms of improving their quality of life, improving their salaries, their pay, their benefits that would not be a single transitory moment, you know, rolling down pennsylvania avenue. and scott s right. it s been a while. because i can remember this. i was a young, you know, aide working for the pentagon when dick cheney was secretary of defense. we did desert victory, the parade and the flyover after that, but we d won a major war. and it wasn t about george bush aggrandizing himself. it was about honoring the troops. i think there is a different flavor with donald trump. he s obsessive about this. and there s a certain character flaw to donald trump i think that makes him envious and wanting to have the associative property of the merit and the honor of these troops rubbed off on him that i think is a little unseemly in some ways. i don t think it is the same selflessness you d see with a george h.w. bush or anot