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WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight years after President Donald Trump was dazzled by a grand military parade down the Champs-Élysées in Paris, he is finally getting a chance to try to top the spectacle.
President Donald Trump on Saturday is set to host a major military parade in Washington, celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary and Flag Day.
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.
The military parade coincides with President Donald Trump’s birthday, but faces opposition from planned protests, which organizers are dubbing a “national day of defiance.”
He is overseeing a lavish military parade Saturday in Washington, D.C., ostensibly to celebrate Flag Day and the Army's 250th birthday. But the event comes amid a Trump-ordered National Guard deployment in Los Angeles,
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The power of the US military will be sharply on display this weekend – on two different coasts and in two very different ways.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll pushed back against critics of the military parade in Washington, D.C., arguing the event will “continue the strength and recruiting” of the military. The parade, which will celebrate the military’s 250th anniversary,
Trump has ordered a military parade in DC for Army's 250th anniversary, which also falls on his 79th birthday. Which other world leaders have them?
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