How Trump got the military parade he’s always wanted
CNN
Flying home from his first visit to Paris as president, an awestruck Donald Trump told aides aboard Air Force One that the military parade he’d just witnessed was one of the most dazzling spectacles he’d ever seen.
Flying home from his first visit to Paris as president, an awestruck Donald Trump told aides aboard Air Force One that the military parade he’d just witnessed was one of the most dazzling spectacles he’d ever seen. Get to work, he told them. He wanted one at home. Eight years later, after several failed attempts during his first term, Trump will finally get his wish. The parade set to roll down Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC, on Saturday will amount to the largest display of military might in the nation’s capital at least since 1991, when a parade of tanks, troops and missiles marked the end of the first Gulf War. The optics of Saturday’s event, celebrating the US Army’s 250th anniversary but coinciding with Trump’s 79th birthday, have not been universally embraced. During Trump’s first term, military officials warned against a show of force they said was more at home in North Korea than the United States. Now, some current and former military officials worry about an unfortunate split-screen, with US troops deployed on domestic soil in Los Angeles while Trump examines military hardware from a reviewing stand in Washington. Both scenes seemed certain to fuel protests, also scheduled for Saturday, accusing Trump of acting like a despot. There is nothing to indicate the president or his current advisers are remotely concerned the parade might send the wrong message.
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