Elaborating on Thursday night's announcement by the Pentagon that the military parade has been "postponed," President Trump announced Friday that he personally cancelled the plan, and that it was local politicians in Washington D.C. who were to blame.

"When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it," Trump insisted, adding that next year he expects the costs to go way down, and in the meantime he'll "buy some more jet fighters." $92 million could buy a fraction of an F-35 warplane.