Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg slammed President Trump's upcoming July Fourth 'Salute to America' parade, saying that the event — which will feature military tanks and flyovers in Washington — only 'makes America look smaller'
Washington Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday slammed President Donald Trump's upcoming July Fourth"Salute to America" parade, saying that the event -- which will feature military tanks and flyovers in Washington -- only"makes America look smaller."
"One of the reasons I joined the military was that in a small way I wanted to be part of seeing to it that my country was not the kind of place where a leader feels the need to boost his own ego by rolling tanks down the streets of our capital," the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, told CNN's Jake Tapper on"The Lead.""We've always been bigger than that.
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