Donald Trump was apparently NOT happy with the turn-out – or the tone – of his very expensive military/birthday parade.
The president wanted a “menacing” military parade but got the opposite instead, Michael Wolff tells The Daily Beast Podcast. [image or embed]
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Michael Wolff told “The Daily Beast Podcast” that what Trump wanted was a “menacing” show of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary (and his 79th birthday)—but what he got a “festive” parade instead.
From The Daily Beast:
“He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said on the podcast. “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.”
That didn’t escape Trump, who pointed the finger at his defense secretary, according to Wolff.
“He kind of reamed out Hegseth for this,” the Trump biographer said. “Apparently, there was a phone call, and he said to Hegseth, the tone was all wrong. Why was the tone wrong? Who staged this? There was the tone problem. Trump, he keeps repeating himself.”
“Everybody was actually celebrating, celebrating the 250 years of the U.S. military—probably celebrating that more than Donald Trump’s birthday,” Wolff said. “But it didn’t send the message that he apparently wanted, which is that he was the commander in chief of this menacing enterprise,” he added.
The article goes on to note that Trump ordered a statement released saying 250,000 people attended the parade when insiders put the real figure at about 40,000.
The clip is cued up below.
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