It's Trump's military, from parade to protests
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann break down just how much President Trump wants to remind you that he's Commander-in-Chief – from deploying the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, to Saturday's military parade in D.C.
Plus, Democrats accuse Trump of intentionally provoking protests in an attempt to justify escalating use of military force.
And later, video journalist Anna Liss-Roy joins the show to discuss what it's like along Saturday's parade route near the White House, where tanks will drive down Constitution Avenue.
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| 0:00.0 | What we're trying to do is reduce government. We have too many people. The word tariff is my favorite |
| 0:05.6 | word in the dictionary. He's elected to get him the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it. |
| 0:11.5 | The golden age of America has only just begun. President Trump is the nation's commander-in-chief, and this week he will not let you forget it, |
| 0:24.1 | whether it's his supporters coming to Washington for the Army's 250th birthday, and by the way, |
| 0:29.8 | Trump's 79th birthday, or Trump's deployment of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles |
| 0:35.5 | against the wishes of California's governor. |
| 0:38.2 | Welcome to Sidebar from the Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey, and I'm here today with Rhonda |
| 0:42.5 | Colvin and James Holman. Political video journalist, analyst Roy, will join us shortly to talk about |
| 0:48.0 | the preparations for Trump's big military parade, and it sort of is his parade, even though |
| 0:52.9 | it's really for the Army's birthday. |
| 0:54.9 | But let's start with the protests happening in Los Angeles and what's expected in other parts |
| 0:59.7 | of the country this weekend and the increasingly militarized response. |
| 1:04.6 | James, let's just recap sort of how this started in L.A. and what people were rising up against what they were upset was happening. |
| 1:12.9 | ICE is, had been focused on sort of trying to get violent criminals and there's been a lot of |
| 1:18.2 | pressure for them to increase their numbers of deportations. And so they've started casting a |
| 1:24.1 | much wider net and they went to Home Depot on Friday, for example, in other areas |
| 1:29.3 | where there are undocumented immigrants who were gathered in large numbers. And that led to some |
| 1:35.0 | confrontations and escalation. Things were sort of getting under control. There were some, |
| 1:41.5 | there were some awful attacks where people were throwing rocks at ice police cars. |
| 1:47.0 | And but then on Saturday, Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to deploy going around the governor who didn't want it. |
| 1:59.0 | And that led to more protests, more escalation. Now they're talking |
| 2:03.3 | about a multi-month deployment of Marines beyond the National Guard. And it's, you know, |
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