Trump will organize a military parade on the day of his birthday

UNITED STATES –

A military parade will take place on June 14 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army. A date that coincides with Donald Trump’s birthday.

Posted today at 11:22 p.m.

Donald Trump during a speech at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on May 1, 2025.

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Donald Trump’s military parade will coincide with the 250th anniversary of the American army.
The Minister of Defense promises an unprecedented historical parade.
The event is inspired by the French parade of July 14 admired by Donald Trump.

A spokesperson for the White House confirmed on Friday that Donald Trump would organize a “military parade” on June 14, the date marking the 250th anniversary of the creation of the American army, and coinciding with the president’s 79th anniversary.

The Republican by that “to return tribute to American veteransto members of the active armed forces and military history, ”wrote Anna Kelly on the social network X sharing an article by Fox News.

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It is read that the parade will recall, with extras and equipment, the American war of independence, the Civil War, but also the two world wars, the Vietnam War and the more recent conflicts (Iraq, Afghanistan etc.).

250 years in 2026

Activity soldiers as well as students from various US military schools will also participate, according to the same source. The place is not specified. “We are going to organize the largest and the most beautiful military parade in our history,” said Defense Minister Pete Hegseth in Fox News.

The American army (US Army) was founded on June 14, 1775, just over a year before the United States of America declared their independence on July 4, 1776-on July 4 being today on the day of the National Day in the United States.

Donald Trump promised to score the country’s 250th anniversary next year. But it was this year that he intends to realize a project already mentioned during his first mandate (2017-2021), that of a military parade. And on a date, therefore, which coincides with his birthday.

Potentially staggering

The American president had greatly appreciated the show offered by the parade of July 14 in Paris, to which his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron had invited him in 2017.

But his desire to organize a parade in Washington had so far never materialized, the Pentagon having underlined the potentially staggering cost of such an event, not to mention the concerns about the damage of tank and other heavy military vehicles in the streets of the city.

The last major military parade in the United States was held in 1991 in Washington to celebrate the end of the Gulf War.

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