Trump avoided any open partisan message, although he seemed to refer to his “fight! Fight! Fight!” exhortation after an attempt to murder against him last year.
“Again and again, the enemies of the United States have learned that if you threat to the American people, our soldiers come for you,” Trump said. “Your defeat will be sure. Your disappearance will be definitive, and your fall will be total and complete, because our soldiers never give up, never give up and never renounce. Folt, fight, fight and win, win, win, win.”
Trump’s appearance at the Review Stand to the south of the White House ran a heartbreaking day in which a Minnesota state legislator And her husband was killed, and another Democratic legislator and his wife were injured, in what the authorities called a “politically motivated” attack.
A shooting war has been extended between two enemies of the Middle East for a long time, Iran and Israel. And in a greater distraction of the parade that Trump had covered for a long time, the protesters throughout the country gathered against the show, resulting in tens of thousands in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other cities.
Encourage the manifestations was a scream of two words rally: “No Kings.”
The weather did not cooperate completely either. The winds collected and a light drizzle began just when the tanks were about to roll.
The parade was supposed to begin at 6:30 pm et, but half an hour was uploaded to the weather, said a secret service official. The army tanks, their footprints collide with the pavement, extended along Constitution Avenue under an intermittent drizzle. Hundreds of people were still trapped in line, even when the parade came to an end two hours later.
Some of the planned high steps had to be canceled. Even so, the crowd gathered in the National Shopping Center appreciantly considered the helicopters flew over training.
The parade came 250th Army anniversary and, as is the case, Trump’s 79th birthday. The moment caused criticism that the parade intended a celebration of a man like the army. The military estimated the cost of $ 25 million to $ 40 million.
The crowd exploded in a “happy birthday” choir after Trump’s comments on Saturday night.
“The whole idea, doing it on Trump’s birthday … We don’t do this in the United States,” said representative Adam Smith, D-Wash., Member of the Armed Services Committee. “We do not celebrate individual leaders. We celebrate the Constitution and celebrate the country.”
Trump had long painted for a military parade, after being impressed with the celebration of the Bastille Day in Paris in 2017, the first year of his last mandate, said a former White House official. His staff discouraged the idea, citing the cost and rarity of such shows. The last time the nation showed its military hardware in such a way in 1991, at the end of the First Gulf War.
Trump observed with approval from a visualization position, flanked by the first lady Melania Trump and defense secretary Pete Hegseth. All were applauded by the crowd.
