No money for Cancer research & treatment for kids, but $100million dollar birthday parade OK. Disgusting.

[Nimble_Idea]

the fact anyone can gaslight this, fully underscores the subhuman nature of these fucking roaches.

[tanyev]

1. And he'll stand there smirking and rocking side to side in delight,

proudly wearing his French Fries Certification Pin for all to see.

[NCDem47]

2. Beyooooooond Bad Optics

If the economy is in the sh*tter at that time, he'll get royally roasted.

Of course he won't care.

[LiberalArkie]

13. Who would dare inform him?

[vapor2]

34. But he does care about crowd size

[thomski64]

3. ..there was a big parade for Anwar Sadat

One like that?

[erronis]

12. Made me look it up... "Assassination of Anwar Sadat"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anwar_Sadat

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

41. My late father knew Sadat and his wife.

Well…..not to exaggerate at all

Mmmm, Let’s put it this way…

A LOT of leaders in the Middle East knew my late father
back in the 1950s 1960s 1970s, and a ‘little’ in later years 80s.

Knew, him, and they still would remember him even years later.

For instance….
Sadat’s widow, Jehan Sadat, greeted my father by name at a chance meeting
in late 1988.in the states, at an exclusive fine dining Italian restaurant she welcomed him by his first name,
She instantly gestured to her security to allow him,,,,
(But her security also kept away another person who she didn’t know who started to approach)

ADD THIS…

There are a few cables on line in the National Archives that reference my late father,
For example: Kissinger sent cables, a few cables to US Embassies,
Iran, Brazil, Egypt, etc
even one cable about my father I found from Kissinger to Moscow US Embassy if you can believe that! (I knew nothing about that until I saw hat cable)

But overall, the info in those cables was disappointing, not
really much of anything.

ALL what I want to know is still classified,
And when they so-called released the declassified stuff “the CIA Family Jewels”
It failed to include almost EVERYTHING I wanted to see.

The National Security Archives at George Washington University has told me
Multiple times to me… It’s really unlikely they, the CIA NSA will ever declassify what my father did.

[erronis]

42. Fascinating. And I'm impressed by so many on DU and their personal knowledge and experiences.

My father was also well-known during the Truman and Kennedy administrations. However memories, even the institutional ones, decay over time - as they should.

Love your DU profile. I'm in admiration.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

46. My father was extremely 'tight lipped'...

I never really knew what my father did,

We knew he was someone that went to countries all across the globe,
As we were children—- that’s all we knew was…Dad ‘built’ communication
systems, and he was a senior executive for a BIG CORPORATION

Dad was in Iran, Dad was in Saudi Arabia, Dad was in Spain,
…..Dad was in Turkey,… Dad was in Syria, …Ethiopia, …Egypt,
Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cuba, Brazil,

Later we realized it was a LOT MORE than what we were led to believe.

I remember the shock after he died of seeing some of his old Calendars
from 1960s ….all the entries for WashDC, WashDC, WashDC…..

Dozens and dozens entries/dates for WashDC…….and we never knew of that.

After the fact we surmised….. NSA and CIA, and Senate Intelligence Committee members ‘meetings’

Dad was formally invited to EVERY US Presidential Inauguration from
JFK thru Clinton…….Republican and Democratic both.

Only President that didn’t was BushSR,,,,, think it was personal reason.
BushSR was CIA too.

Also think my father ‘got out’ of the spook business just prior to all
the crap in Reagan era.

Dad ‘knew’ ,,, I’m fairly sure of this,,, ‘knew’ what was going on way BEFORE
Reagan’s IRAN/CONTRA crap became public.

Way too many connections, and ties to Vietnam, Thailand, CIA NSA, AND
of course IRAN.

Dad was in IRAN all the time for decades,

[erronis]

47. Wow. What a (untold) history.

Sometimes the spouses knew a bit of the backstory, and sometimes the children knew there was more to the tale than they were given.

Hard to live a life where a large part of it is supposed to remain hidden.

Thanks for sharing.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

53. A lot of NSA types were very glad the books by James Bamford were published

Those books by James Bamford allowed thousands of National Security types/people who were employed/working for NSA CIA to inform their spouses and family about the NSA.

BODY OF SECRETS

This book is a LOT about what my father was ‘involved’ in…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace

THE PUZZLE PALACE

those 2 books about NSA are fantastic information

But, and a BIG BUT,,,, a lot is very dry reading, and boring IF you don’t
know or realize the connections that the book may skip or not tell
you the connections

Best to be knowledgeable BEFORE reading those books.

[erronis]

55. I did read The Puzzle Palace and could grasp a lot of what it talked about.

At that time I worked in the periphery of that world and knew some of something. Good hangout: Charley's Place. Or Au Pied de Cochon. It was hard to hang out in a bar without someone knowing too much.

I think we're in a stranger world than fiction. And one that even the best intelligence analysts couldn't have foretold - or if they did, they were silenced.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

58. What my sister told me....re Jordon

Again my sister tends to exaggerate,,,
But I believe her in this instance…..

She went to Rice University, and a classmate/friend of hers was
from Jordon.

At Rice University graduation the parents from Jordon
greeted my parents — and of course the Jordon father knew
my father by name, apparently very well.

Think he was the equivalent of the US Attorney General,
But called by another govt title in Jordon.

Later my sister said she was told by that Jordanian father something like this
After my father left for awhile……….

‘I can’t tell you how much the country of Jordon owes him for all he has done to help Jordon’

Or he said something like that.

I guess I believe my sister,
And I was indeed aware my father was in Jordan many times
And knew that King Hussein (who died years ago)

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

48. Dad was summed to testify to Congressional Committees,, BUT ALWAYS....

Dad was summoned to testify to various Congressional hearings,

BUT from what I have found in the public records,
He was indeed originally summoned to testify,
BUT as far as I know…..it was then ALWAYS CANCELLED.
so he never testified in public.

I assume he likely did testify in private,


Even years later, when the Iron Curtain fell,
My parents visited Czechoslovakia,,,
He still had to get the ‘ok’ to travel to a former Soviet
country, apparently approved first from WashDC (NSA?)

And when he got to Prague,,, GUESS WHAT?

APPARENTLY even though Soviets were no longer,
Some KGB type person or persons followed my father everywhere
Mom and Dad went…..to museums…..followed…..to Brno….followed
I guess the KGB still was ‘interested’ to know what he was doing there.
Followed them everywhere, openly following them

[erronis]

49. That had to have felt very threatening. And that was probably the intent.

The USSR security apparatus was slowly morphing into putin's current implementation.

And that same type of threats are now directed against US citizens on their own soil, by their "own" government.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

56. One of my sisters, her father n law was FDR's confidant

Eleanor Roosevelt supposedly said that….
He was a corrupting influence on her husband.

😎

And Truman, when he became President, well Truman bugged the telephones
of him too.

[calimary]

33. Ouch!

Good one!

[Paladin]

4. Why would we expect any better, at this point?

1.) Keep showing up at the nation-wide anti-trump rallies.

2.) Disassociate yourselves from any remaining pro-trump acquaintances or relatives you might still have.

3.) VOTE.

[mwmisses4289]

5. Some of us can't disassociate from

trump acquaintances or family, as they may be coworkers or customers, especially if we live in red areas. We can be polite, not talk politics, and keep our interactions down to the bare minimum when dealing with them.

[Katinfl]

9. I feel for those who have to put up with it for whatever reason.

I get why they have to do it because it has to be hard to stay silent. We only have one couple that we do not discuss politics in any way, shape or form. Many years ago we had a falling out on that subject and we have just reconnected. They know where we are parked, but we don’t know where they are after all this crap with trump so we don’t say a word. He’s a republican, she follow his word on everything. He is an intelligent man and we cannot believe he in OK with trump, but we will never know. So be it.

[BonnieJW]

18. That's what I do

I smile and say hello back to them. I never stop to talk. I think I'm one of many who do that because two of them moved out of the neighborhood. I hope they are shunned for the rest of their lives

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. Will the SlobFather be wearing his JCPenney suit or one more militaryesque in design?

[orleans]

25. whatever he is wearing i suspect he'll be giving himself a medal

GENERAL BONE SPURS

[MLWR]

7. Everyone needs to boycott his parade

Or show up with signs saying that money should be going to cancer research. I sincerely hope that Lady Karma is watching this latest example of "waste, fraud and abuse."

[birdographer]

17. I was thinking that.

Ideally, don’t show up. If that meant the streets would be empty, great. But it doesn’t—MAGAts will come from everywhere to attend. So holding signs relating the cost of the parade with the cost of cancer research seems to me to be the best way to get the message across. I doubt MAGAts even know that he has cut that research. They just want to kneel and worship him.

[BonnieJW]

20. Maybe not

Who knows what financial shape people will be in by June? They might show up with begging bowls

[mercuryblues]

32. I already have a sign

My kid died of cancer so trump could have this parade

Disclaimer: my kids are ok. But i bet some people would be able to use it.

[LR3]

8. When we he start giving himself military medals?

Needs some braid on the shoulder, too.

The Medal of Bone Spur Valor
The Bronze Avoided The Clap

[Lonestarblue]

38. You've probably seen that photo of him as a teenager at the military academy.

His uniform is covered with medals, none of which he earned. He borrowed them from a classmate or, more likely, bullied the classmate into giving them to him. He loves to give himself awards.

[bmichaelh]

10. No Mercy

Last edited Wed Apr 9, 2025, 09:48 AM - Edit history (3)

Eliminating cancer research is something that Biden or Harris would never have done.

Cancer research saved my life.

I was first diagnosed with lymphoma in 1990.
It returned in 2019 after two remissions.
I went 4 unsuccessful treatments over 2 years; all failed.
The 5th treatment was successful; the drug had only been approved by FDA the year before in 2020.
Also, when lymphoma returns, it gets more aggressive and resistant to prior therapies.

Also, I told my MAGA family members, that if my lymphoma returns and Trump in any way is partly responsible for my lack of treatment options, I will not be silent.
I will write my story.
They are more horrified that I would make Trump look bad than anything.

Also, Biden was VP when the ACA passed. ACA provides me with protections against lifetime limits which under the pre-ACA world, I would have already passed. And Trump wanted to repeal the ACA. Harris as US Senator voted against the repeal.

There is no more
mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.
--Shakespeare, Coriolanus 5.4.28-29

[travelingthrulife]

11. Millions for golf as well, which DOGE doesn't seem to notice.

[BoRaGard]

14. Military honors for the G.O.P.'s 5-time draft-dodging casino hustler

while he systematically stomps out food banks across the land.

Do the repubes really think this is what Jesus would do?

Sounds like a Satanic delusion to me.

[Ars Longa]

15. How about the $100M going to Veterans, and Veterans

health care programs??
How about hiring Veterans back to all these
Government Jobs.

[RobertDevereaux]

16. Such a fine alternative...

A parade for that bastard?
Elsewhere in DC, same day, same hour, someone needs to hold a 4-mile parade of clowns, fantastical floats, and brazenly bleating kazoo bands.

[birdographer]

23. I absolutely love that idea!

How hard could that be to arrange? I bet it would bring more people than his self-indulgent parade to honor himself. Could be so much fun, kids would love it, show the contrast.

[calimary]

35. The visuals alone would get coverage.

Especially if the protest signs are clever.

[erronis]

54. Not in the current M$M. No coverage in the WSJ, WaPo, NYT, LATimes, etc.

The Fourth Estate has been bought.

[Nimble_Idea]

60. it was always bought. corp news been brainwashing the rubes for decades to keep the top 10% where they are

forever.

[Orrex]

19. Holy fuck why doesn't he die?

[birdographer]

24. I'm not sure he is human

No heart, no soul, just a flabby bag of flesh. There’s nothing THERE to die. I’d love it if someone would test out this theory for me.

[Diamond_Dog]

28. That runs through my mind every hour.

[DENVERPOPS]

21. Every Single Time He Goes to Mar-a-Lago

The TRUE costs of AirForceOne and Security, etc are probably 10-15 MILLION FOR EVERY TRIP, ONE WAY.....

[MayReasonRule]

22. Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever

Almost two dozen repositories of research and public health data supported by the National Institutes of Health are marked for “review” under the Trump administration’s direction, and researchers and archivists say the data is at risk of being lost forever if the repositories go down.

“The problem with archiving this data is that we can’t,” Lisa Chinn, Head of Research Data Services at the University of Chicago, told 404 Media. Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency, and those agreements are carefully administered through a disclosure risk review process.

A message appeared at the top of multiple NIH websites last week that says: “This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.”

Repositories with the message include archives of cancer imagery, Alzheimer’s disease research, sleep studies, HIV databases, and COVID-19 vaccination and mortality data.

Full Archived Article

[erronis]

57. This is horrible. But web scrapers can usually bypass any restrictions on access.

There are thousands (or orders of magnitude more) or robots/spiders/scrapers scanning every available web site and page looking for new data.

Much of those successfully scanned pages end up in some archive. Many of those archives are publicly available. Witness the WayBackMachine.

Until this regime tries to put these archives out of business - perhaps another "EO".

Of course the most useful to many of us is Wikipedia and the other offshoots. These have already been mentioned as targets. Full downloads of current content are available to take to your bunker.

[eShirl]

26. LET THEM EAT EGGLESS CAKE

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. Beyond disgusting!!

[IronLionZion]

29. Third world dictator with millions of idiots supporting and cheering him on

it all sounds Putin-esque

[sinkingfeeling]

30. How very North Korean.

[Rebl2]

31. Just so

sickening. The only hope is for some of these republicans who have children, that some of their children get cancer. Then they ask where’s the research and treatment and they are told , well you voted to get rid of the money for that research and/or treatment.

[calimary]

36. Sadly enough, that kind of thing is the only way to reach some people.

[Rebl2]

37. You are

so right. I didn’t like writing that, but you are correct, it’s the only way to reach some people unfortunately.

[ECL213]

39. Every time he shows his ugly mug in public is an opportunity.

[republianmushroom]

40. Must stroke that ego.

[red dog 1]

43. Let's hope this will be his last birthday!

https://democraticunderground.com/100220223958

[Blue Owl]

44. tRump should have been dumped the moment he mocked that disabled reporter

Why the fuck is he still even here?

[Cha]

45. It's beyond Disgusting.. it's Crimally Insane.

Fuck that Degenerate Disease.

[Karasu]

50. Don't worry. I'm sure DOGE will be coming along to cut this waste any second now. After all, it's not very

"efficient", now, is it?

[Meowmee]

51. Yes... sickening for sure

[Karasu]

52. This shit likely costs more money than they've "saved" in over two months of indiscriminately firing people.

[Klarkashton]

59. Let's hope this just another misdirection and nothing

Will come of it.

Can only hope!