Army celebrates its 250th year, Trump celebrates his 79th : NPR

The US Army will celebrate its 250th anniversary on Saturday with a large military parade with thousands of service members who participated in the streets of Washington, DC and the sky and the great budget show.

Mayor Trump, who was celebrated on Saturday, corresponds to the 79th birthday army anniversary and dreamed of keeping such an image of America’s military power for a long time. A parade of this size is unusual in the times of peace, and has led to controversy that some views discussed as the politicization of the armed forces of the country.

The plans to commemorate the anniversary of the milestone anniversary – long before Trump provided a second period. However, the parade ceremony was added to the budget in recent months with a balloon. To prepare with tens of millions of people for large -scale activity and both the city and the military fluttering planners.

The parade ceremony is a bigger part Events ArduvazThey all take place around the national shopping center. Starting from Meat, ET, the army will organize a public festival with military demonstrations and live music before the parade ceremony starts at 18:30.

The parade ceremony is expected to end around 20:00 and will be closed with an overhead flare show in front of the White House in the evening.

Presidential request list

Trump has been asking for such a parade since 2017, a Military demonstration in France for Bastille Day. At that time, the authorities were able to keep the concept away by showing the suspicious optics of the peace time show.

(Froml) French Defense Minister Florence Parly, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, US President Donald Trump and his wife First Lady Melania Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron, Senate President Gerard Larcher, French National Assembly Francois De Rugy President and Paris Anne Hidalgo Mayor Hidalgo Mayor.

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In the second period, however, the army’s birthday gave Trump the opportunity to have a long time passing ceremony.

Speaking at Fort Bragg last week, Trump said the parade will be “Washington a big day in DC”.

“A lot of people said we didn’t want to do this. I said, ‘Yes, we want to show a little,’ ‘he said.

Since the parade was announced, it has been a sharp criticism of democratic deputies, especially calling the showcase. A make -up project and abuse of funds.

“Donald Trump is a shameful action of this administration when it reduces the benefits of veterans in order to aggravate the veterans, to communicate the control of veterans on the army, to communicate with the army.” He said.

Other critics said this was usually a demonstration of military power associated with autocratic governments in places such as Russia or North Korea.

The parade will include dozens of armored tanks and Himars, army planes, including Black Hawk helicopters and tips, and more than 6,000 artillery in uniform unions. Some historical uniforms and vehicles are used to walk the audience throughout the history of the American military conflict.

In addition, 34 horses, two mules and a dog – a blue heel named Doc Holiday – will join the walk.

According to Army Spokesman Heather J. Hagan, the weekend festivals created a price tag that was expected between 25 million and 45 million dollars. Including Planned road repairs Due to possible damage to tanks rolling in the streets of the city.

According to Army Spokesman Steve Warren, Trump is expected to attend the parade as an audience, but is planned to take a folded American flag. Such a presentation is usually reserved for the families of the soldiers who have fallen.

Army says he expects about 200,000 participants.

Military equipment is coming to DC for days

Heavy military equipment rolled into the city for days, comes by the load or carried in the streets of the city in large, flat -bed trucks.

Peirce Economakis was a bartender on Tuesday evening, a settlement neighborhood in the city. When the main road was installed with military machines such as tanks and armored cars, after it was closed by the police around 20.00 as a truck. He says the entire scene probably took about 30 minutes.

“Surreal. A little depressing,” he said. “I think many people forget that people actually live here and you know, it’s not a kind of playground.”

He said that since Thursday, important street closure around the city will be in force and Reagan National Airport will be closed for several hours and the military bridge would potentially disrupt flights on Saturday to meet.

The city is also prepared for potential damage to its streets by establishing steel plates during the parade. DC Mayor Mariel Bowser expressed his concerns that heavy machines and tanks could break down the roads and require millions of dollars to repair them.

The first major military parade ceremony in the US for decades

Such a military equipment and personnel exhibition in the USA is quite extraordinary

The US Capitol is seen through security fencing at the National Shopping Center for an upcoming military parade for a 79th birthday in Washington, 12 June 2025, 12 June 2025, 79th birthday, the 250th anniversary of the army.

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Although John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower had some troops where presidents walked with military equipment for the opening, the country did not hold a large military parade, as planned in peace times this weekend.

The last great military parade was at DC in 1991 to celebrate the end of the Gulf War and to commemorate the falling soldiers from this conflict. However, even this movement was controversial, says Joshua Zeitz, a historian and contributing editor to Polatıco Magazine.

“Our country was born from a very special opposition to the state power, the state authority, to the army standing to apply such authority and power,” NPR said. Everything was thoughtIt is important to see this parade in the context of Trump’s other movements to expand the authority and power of the Presidency.

“The presidency is really rediscovering the presidency as a traditional thing in American history, and the military parade ceremony is part of it.”

However, Matthew Frakes, a historian of American military history and assistant professor of Ohio State University, points out that America has a history of smaller military parade, such as local independence day or veterans’ day celebrations. He said that the key to this parade will be to see how much of America’s military mastery focus on history.

“It is to commemorate military parade in democracies, but they aim to scare in authoritarian regimes, and so you can think of the Soviet Union or more soon in China or North Korea.”

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Planned Protests

Before the weekend activities, organizations across the country planned to protest against the parade, which was criticized as a make -up project for the White House.

Group No Kings, who organized past protests against Trump, will host more than 1,800 events Cities throughout the country.

“June 14-Bayrak Day-President Trump wants a demonstration of dominance for tanks and TV for his birthday.” “A show that wants to look like power. But in Washington, the real power is not staged. It rises everywhere else.”

The group said that no king would be shown in Washington on Saturday to remove attention from the exhibition of military splendor, and instead will not host the largest demonstrations in Philadelphia, the city known as the birthplace of America.

“Instead of allowing this birthday parade to be a center of gravity, the story of America will take action everywhere: People who come together in communities throughout the country to reject strong man politics and corruption.” He said.

In the afternoon Friday, the National Parks Service had approved a protest permission for only one demonstration for the parade, but other unapproved protests may occur.

Trump is already facing a sharp recoil for the decision to place the army in Los Angeles in protests against ice migration raids. He promised to take action against the demonstrators at the events of Saturday.

“For people who want to protest, they will be met with great power,” he said to journalists from the oval office. “And I haven’t even heard a protest, but you know, people who hate our country, but they will face very heavy power.”