Apr 07, 2025 09:09 AM IST
The parade would reportedly stretch practically 4 miles from the Pentagon in Arlington to the White Home.
The US army goes to carry a grand parade in Washington D.C. on June 14, 2025, which can coincide with the Military’s 250th birthday, in addition to President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. A D.C. supply with information of the plan, which remains to be being developed, has stated that Trump has commandeered Saturday, June 14, for his army parade, as reported by the Washington Metropolis Paper. The parade would reportedly stretch practically 4 miles from the Pentagon in Arlington to the White Home.
Arlington County Board Chair Takis Karantonis informed the outlet that no formal request for help has been made to the county but. The White Home has given the county a “heads up” concerning the parade, however no particulars have been supplied.
“It’s not clear to me what the scope of a parade could be,” Karantois stated. “However I’d hope the federal authorities stays delicate to the ache and issues of quite a few [military] veteran residents who’ve misplaced or may lose their jobs in current federal selections, as they mirror on how greatest to have fun the Military’s anniversary.”
When Donald Trump’s plans had been cancelled previously
Trump has all the time needed a grand army parade to happen, and had even envisioned tanks, plane, and different army {hardware} rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue NW again in 2018. In keeping with the Related Press, he acquired the thought after watching a French army spectacle in 2017, following which he informed folks, “We’re going to should try to high it.”
His plan, nevertheless, didn’t work out in 2018 with army leaders expressing their issues about logistics for placing on such an enormous occasion. They had been additionally frightened concerning the estimated $92 million {dollars} in prices. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser publicly questioned the parade on the time, and Trump lastly needed to cancel his plans.
“The native politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall after they see it,” Trump wrote on X on the time. “When requested to provide us a value for holding an excellent celebratory army parade, they needed a quantity so ridiculously excessive that I cancelled it. By no means let somebody maintain you up! I’ll as a substitute …attend the large parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Power Base on a special date…”
