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US army plans for a potential parade of 6,600 soldiers on Trump’s birthday
“Plans for a large military parade coinciding with the president’s 79th birthday would likely cost tens of millions”
Associated Press in Washington
May 2, 2025
“…Fox News reported that the parade was a definite go-ahead and would happen on 14 June, the 250th birthday of the United States army as well as Trump’s own birthday, when he will become 79.”
“In addition to active-duty soldiers, the parade will include re-enactors, equipment and more from a variety of historical US conflicts from the revolutionary war to the civil war and the two world wars and the more recent conflicts in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, Fox reported.”
Sounds like something straight out of North Korea, or the Soviet Union.
What others are saying:
“The president is planning an historic celebration of the army’s 250th birthday that will honor generations of selfless Americans who have risked everything for our freedom,” Vince Haley, the White House domestic policy council director, told the outlet.
Real newspeople may ask:
How would American freedoms today be any different if US troops were never sent to Iraq?
Those newspeople avoided asking the same question of President Biden:
Biden honors Americans who ‘stood on the front lines of freedom’ in Veterans Day remarks
CNN Nov 11, 2023
Sorry, no newspeople available to ask:
Mr President,
Going back to the 1990 Operation Desert Shield,
How would American freedoms today be any different if US troops were never sent to Iraq?
“In his first term, Trump proposed having a parade after seeing one in France on Bastille Day in 2017. Trump said that after watching the two-hour procession along the famed Champs-Élysées that he wanted an even grander one on Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Let’s make this parade an annual event and a federal holiday.
Marching in the parade:
Along with re-enactors, include all DOD employees involved in managing federal contracts related to TRICARE.