Dotard Displays Ignorance Or Senility; Also Tanks

Military police walk near Abrams tanks on a flat car in a rail yard, Monday, July 1, 2019, in Washington, D.C.,
ahead of a Fourth of July celebration that President Donald Trump says will include military hardware.
(Patrick Semansky/AP)

On Monday, President Trump confirmed reports that he had requested tanks at the celebration, in addition to a Blue Angels flyover and other static displays.

“I’m going to be here and I’m going to say a few words and we’re going to have planes going overhead ― the best fighter jets in the world, and other planes, too,” he told reporters. “And we’re going to have some tanks stationed outside."

Officials told The Washington Post, according to a story published earlier Monday, that the White House had requested Army vehicles for the celebration but that the service was scrambling to figure out what to send and how to get it to D.C.

“You’ve got to be pretty careful with the tanks, because the roads have a tendency not to like to carry heavy tanks," he said. “So we have to put them in certain areas, but we have the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abram tanks."

The M4 Sherman, best known for its role in World War II, went out of service in 1957. The M1 Abrams came online in 1980.

“You know, we’re making a lot of new tanks right now,” Trump added. “We’re building a lot of new tanks in Lima, Ohio ― our great tank factory that people wanted to close down until I got elected and I stopped it from being closed down.”

The Associated Press reported late on Monday that one of its photographers saw at least two M1A1 Abrams tanks and two Bradley Fighting Vehicles on a flatcar in a railyard at the southern edge of Washington.

(Patrick Semansky/AP)

[Military Times]