THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

At least not this year. The vainglorious highlight of Cheeto Mussolini's maladministration was to be his vanity military parade on Veterans Day. It has now been cancelled because its high cost has been revealed and roundly condemned.

President Trump on Friday canceled plans for a military parade this fall in Washington, blaming local officials for inflating the costs and saying they “know a windfall when they see it.”

Washington’s mayor, Muriel E. Bowser, pushed back on Twitter, saying that she had “finally got thru” to the president to convey the “realities” of what it costs to stage events like military parades in the city.

Ms. Bowser put the number at $21.6 million, though the city’s costs are just a fraction of the total, with federal agencies also kicking in millions of dollars. A day earlier, the Pentagon said Mr. Trump’s parade to celebrate the military could be postponed to 2019, as officials acknowledged that the event could cost more than $90 million.

The parade, which was never widely embraced, was initially scheduled for Nov. 10 — Veterans Day weekend — of this year.

While the District of Columbia would incur only about a quarter of the parade’s estimated cost, the city, a Democratic bastion where Mr. Trump is nearly universally unpopular, is an easy target for him.

In a pair of tweets, Mr. Trump allowed for the possibility of a parade in 2019. He said that this year he would instead attend another parade planned at Joint Base Andrews and a military parade in Paris.

The president also took a jab at the local government in Washington, saying the city is “poorly” run. Ms. Bowser, a Democrat, hit back, mocking the president by ending her tweet with a parenthetical “sad” — a word Mr. Trump often uses in his own tweets — and calling him “the reality star in the White House.”

Whiny Donny Dumbass has to wait until next year for his mighty parade. In the meantime he will go to France to see a real parade to celebrate the end of the War to End All Wars 100 years ago on Nov 11, 1918. I can't wait to hear how he will make that all about himself.