The Hill

Trump planning military parade through DC for 79th birthday

Ellen Mitchell
Mon, April 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM EDT2 min read

The Trump administration is planning a June 14 military parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., to mark the president's 79th birthday.

It will also mark the Army's 250th anniversary. A senior administration official confirmed the plans to NewsNation, The Hill's sister network.

Washington City Paper first reported on the parade, noting it will stretch almost 4 miles from the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., to the White House.

An Army official confirmed the parade's length to The Hill, and said that "there are plans for a parade that will involve the Army," adding that nothing is yet solidified.

The official noted that the Army had planned to celebrate its 250th anniversary with a "robust capability increase in what you would see in previous years." Planning began last year and the event has since expanded, with the number of units participating now increased.

The official also said Washington's local government has been involved in the planning, with engineers in both the Army and city doing "route reconnaissance."

"The Army is very excited to celebrate its 250th anniversary with the entire county. Our intention is for Americans to be proud of their Army and also proud of their nation. It's too early to say yet whether or not we're having a parade but we're working with the White House as well as several government agencies to make the celebration a national level event," Army spokesperson Col. Dave Butler told The Hill.

President Trump in his first term in 2018 ordered the Pentagon to plan a large military parade after he visited Paris and was inspired by a French Bastille Day event.

"We're going to have to try to top it," he reportedly told French President Emmanuel Macron.

But that event, set for Nov. 10, was canceled after defense officials quoted the price tag at $92 million and were slow to plan it, citing more pressing issues. The event also was heavily criticized both publicly and in private within the administration.

Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) at the time called the military parade plans a "fantastic waste of money to amuse the president."

And Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a staunch Trump backer, warned against treating the parade as a "Soviet-style" display of military might.

Washington officials also complained that heavy military equipment such as tanks would damage the city's roads and cost the city millions of dollars for public safety.

The Defense Department could use its training budget to pay for flyovers and use vehicles from nearby bases, but the event would also require outside costs such as pay for Secret Service and police, and the renting and construction of stands and barriers.

The timeline for planning is also tight, given that June 14, Trump's birthday, is less than 10 weeks away.

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of course...

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Where's DOGE?

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Nope.

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I was right.

Our paper El Douch'e

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It was fun while it lasted.

Capt'n Summer's eve!

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It was fun while it lasted.

I'm sure America will be really really happy with Donzo come June.

He's going to need to be surrounded by tanks LOL





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We have certain things in common Jeffrey..


Edited: 04/07/2025 at 08:09 PM by fishkller

An odd parade route. The Arlington Memorial Bridge was last refurbished in 2020. I doubt that it's suited for tanks. Spectator space from the Pentagon to the bridge seems limited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Memorial_Bridge



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wavewatcher - >ww - >wavewatcher, again

Are any roads suited for tanks?

Maga, do you agree with this?

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"Roman" salutes for everyone!



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"No I am an anti-fascist."
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism."

-Protagonist Robert Jordan, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (Hemmingway)

The price tag to impersonate Kim and Putin?

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

"Wins" every golf tournament he enters. Military parades. Such a great dear leader.

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This is just like every other American President's birthday. I know how Trump loves the military even though his Vietnam was avoiding STD's as a promiscuous product of lazy money in NYC during the pre aids era.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Maybe some gold wheels on the tanks?

Think Melania will attend his birthday?

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Watched Idiocracy with my 16 y/o daughter over the weekend.
I guess this is the part where the president rides in the parade firing off into the air flanked by whores and morons.

Sounds exactly like Donzo lol.

But I doubt we'll ever see him fire a gun- he'd flinch like a pussy when he hears the big gun-go-boom

I mean, did you see him cower from that eagle?





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We have certain things in common Jeffrey..


Edited: 04/08/2025 at 02:07 PM by fishkller

Congrats to the Army for celebrating their 250th.
Their original plan was for something much more modest, but then Trump wanted a parade for his birthday....

Attendance was meh, not great.
The troops had shitty accommodations and only had one cooked meal a day, the other two meals were MREs.

So we spent >$40 million, plus additional millions to repair damaged roads for very little benefit.
But yeah, Trump and DOGE want to cut millions in benefits services for our veterans.


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Circus, no bread.

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The White House number was that there would be 100s of thousands of people there.

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