Trump’s military parade ends with a whimper
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 15 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Trump endures an embarrassment of a military parade while millions of Americans attend the No Kings protests. Brian interviews Senator Alex Padilla about being assaulted and handcuffed by Trump officials, Congressman Jamie Raskin about the threats posed by Trump, and Senator Brian Schatz about where our attention should be focused.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about Trump's embarrassment of a military parade versus the hugely successful no Kingsday protests and an unintended consequence for Republicans. |
| 0:09.7 | And I've got three interviews this week. I talked to Senator Alex Padilla about being assaulted and handcuffed by Trump officials, Congressman Jamie Raskin about the threats posed by Trump, and Senator Brian Sch's shots about where our attention should be. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:26.1 | In with a bang, out with a whimper. |
| 0:28.7 | Trump's military parade came and went, and if you haven't seen the footage online yet, |
| 0:33.7 | I would highly, highly recommend you watch it because if this parade was a person, it would be Ben Stein, but on Xanax. |
| 0:42.7 | And the best part is that it was so, so sparsely attended that this is what one clip sounded like where a tank is rolling down the street. |
| 0:51.2 | Take a listen. |
| 0:56.0 | The is rolling down the street. Take a listen. The squeaking that you hear is the wheels of the tank. |
| 1:02.0 | Do you understand how quiet it has to be to hear the wheels of a vehicle squeaking during a parade? Like, I wouldn't be able to hear the wheels of my vehicle squeaking during a parade? |
| 1:11.7 | Like, I wouldn't be able to hear the wheels of my car on some county highway. |
| 1:15.5 | The notion that you should be able to hear the wheels of a tank |
| 1:18.7 | during a full-blown parade is just brutal. |
| 1:22.9 | And so, whereas Trump wanted this event to make him look strong and powerful, |
| 1:26.9 | instead he just looked |
| 1:27.8 | incredibly pathetic. And of course, that was all exacerbated by the fact that millions of Americans |
| 1:32.8 | took to the streets in 2,000 cities across the United States. The parade in Idaho had more people |
| 1:39.8 | than Trump had at his $50 million vanity parade in D.C. So not only was Trump humiliated by the sheer mediocrity of his big parade that he wanted to |
| 1:49.0 | rival the Bastille Day celebration, but the only thing that did turn people out were the |
| 1:54.2 | protests attended by people who hate the guy. |
| 1:57.3 | But I was asked by one of my friends, not a political junkie, but someone who does pay attention, why does this matter? |
| 2:02.9 | What changes because of this? |
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