Military refused Trump’s bid to parade missile launchers at inauguration

Even if the underlying HuffPost quote is accurate, this article gives a good illustration of "fake news" strategies.

Note what the article says: "an inauguration team source told the Huffington Post..." So, whether the content is false or true, it may well be true that somebody claiming to be a source told the HuffPost that, in which case the NY Post considers itself off the hook for validity.

However, Even the HuffPost article doesn't claim that this was Trump's request. Quoting: "... a member of Trump’s transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers...". So, the NYP headline appears to be a flat lie.

Nowadays, one has to parse news like YACC parsing a grammar.

This is the key part here, IMO: "... because the tanks, which often weigh more than 100,000 pounds, would destroy the roads, the source said."

An Abrams tank ranges from 54 to 65 tons (108,000 to 130,000 pounds or ~49,000 to ~59,000 kg) in weight and is 32 feet (9.7m) in length, including the main gun. They can not only chew up the roads, but their length could make maneuvering through DC rather difficult.

As for missiles, if you look at the Patriot system hauled on a HEMTT, it's even less maneuverable. The HEMTT is even longer and taller than the Abrams by default; I don't know how much additional room the launcher itself would require.

For all the talk of "optics" here, I think it was the practical implementation that shut things down before any sociopolitical aspects were considered.

FAKE NEWS Probably!!!according to some credible sources!!!...

I wonder what the motives of so called "mainstream media"?Who do they actually work for?Who is the ultimate owner of their company?