More than a dozen Kentucky cities will participate in nationwide protests Saturday against President Trump’s extravagant military parade.
The nationwide “No Kings” protests coincide with the military parade in Washington D.C. to celebrate the Army's 250th anniversary, which falls on President Trump’s birthday.
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Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul calls the celebration wasteful spending and out of character for the country. “The image of parades and military parades is really an image that’s foreign to our heritage,” Paul told Louisville Public Media.
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“The attempt to say that he didn’t pick this one because it’s his birthday is just silly. We've got a lot of branches of the military and the one that was picked just happened to be on the president’s birthday,” commented Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. “At a time when this administration hasn’t approved hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster relief for states like mine, spending $100 plus million on a birthday parade just ain’t right.”
Beshear announced in his Thursday Team Kentucky briefing that he’s activating the state’s emergency operations center. Law enforcement and other state officials will be monitoring the protests, and Beshear reminded Kentuckians that violence and destruction of property is illegal. He encouraged peaceful protests to counter what he called a spectacle.
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