(Washington) A spokesperson for the White House confirmed on Friday that Donald Trump would organize a “military parade” on June 14, date marking 250 years of the creation of the American army, and coinciding with the 79e President’s anniversary.
Posted at 4:43 p.m.
The Republican intends by this “pay tribute to American veterans, members of the armed forces in activity and to military history,” wrote Anna Kelly on the social network X sharing an article by Fox News.
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).
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-July 4 being today 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.
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.
PHOTO SAUL LOEB, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
French President Emmanuel Macron had invited his American counterpart Donald Trump for the National Day parade in France, 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 tanks 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.
