Trump used the US Marine Band, known as "The President's Own," at the rally on the White House groun

[soothsayer]

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Paul Sonne
@PaulSonne
NEW: Trump used the US Marine Band, known as “The President’s Own,” at the rally on the White House grounds yesterday, thrusting the military into a partisan political event.

Trump taps U.S. Marine Band for White House event and raises questions about employing the military...
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[dchill]

1. How do you spell "sacrilege?"

[soothsayer]

2. T R U M P

[dchill]

3. Correct.

[Harker]

8. T.R.U.M.P.S.K.Y.

[C_U_L8R]

4. He better be paying the bill.

Corruption. Embezzlement. Misuse of the military. It's going to be a big bill.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. They're not for hire. NT

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. The question remains, when will he pay for his crimes?

Will WE hold him accountable?

[Sneederbunk]

7. They should have "accidentally" played a funeral dirge.

[RussellCattle]

9. I met U.S. Army serviceman a few years ago in Falls Church, Virginia, who had worked through two....

....enlistments (eight years) as a culinary specialist. His typical work week involved doing ice carvings for banquet table centerpieces for big Pentagon affairs. Please explain to me why this is part of our military budget and maybe I will better understand why we even have military bands.

[AleksS]

12. I don't know about ice centerpieces

but military bands make sense.

There are events, parades, drill, promotions, openings, closings, commissionings, decommissionings, etc. that benefit from the pomp and circumstance and service bands are a strong driver of unit cohesion and morale.

Music has always been part of an armed force--back thousands of years, in fact. (Ice centerpieces, maybe not so much...)

Of course using a military band for a president's campaign rally doesn't seem like an appropriate use of it...

[RussellCattle]

14. How do you feel about money spent on The Blue Angels or The Thunderbirds?

[AleksS]

17. That's a good question. And I haven't put a lot of thought into it

I’d probably need to see if they were serving a purpose (do they actually help recruiting, training, etc. )

[Ron Green]

15. If there were more musicians in the military and no soldiers,

boy would it be a better world.

[RussellCattle]

16. Amen to that. Enough with the "warriors" and the "tip of the spear". More trombones please....

.....and tubas.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Every building burning to the ground if Obama did it

[spanone]

11. republicans get away with that shit, remember 'Mission Accomplished"

when bu$h landed on an aircraft carrier in a Lockheed S-3 Viking in full flight suit?

fuck republicans

[RockRaven]

13. The officer(s) in charge of that band need to be appropriately disciplined for any relevant law or

regulation violations, if any are documented upon a thorough review of all the facts of how this came to pass. It sucks when you are in the position of choosing between breaking the law or telling the POTUS "no" -- but which of those two options is the correct one is not in dispute.

[kskiska]

18. Why can't anyone ever say "NO"?

It's mindboggling.