
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend a celebration of the US Army's 250th birthday on the National Mall in Washington, DC, US, on June, 14, 2025. — Reuters
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President Donald Trump hosted the US Army’s largest parade in decades on Saturday’s 79th birthday, when protesters staged a nationwide rally to accuse them of acting like a dictator.
Trump called the United States a “world’s hottest country” after seeing tanks, airplanes and troops in Washington to honor the US military’s 250th anniversary.
But it created a rigorous distribution screen with turmoil both at home and abroad, as police used tears to disperse protesters in Los Angeles, and US ally Israel traded missile fire with Iran in a rapidly growing conflict in the Middle East.
Trump’s parade emerged at a cloudy night in Washington when tens of thousands of “nine Kings” protesters came after the streets in cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Houston and Atlanta.
Trump avoided his usual domestic political database in a largely short speech, and instead praising the US military, saying “fight, fight, fight, and win, win, win.”
The military exhibition comes when Trump claims his power locally and internationally.
In his address to the parade, Trump sent a warning to Washington’s “complete and complete” defeat, which increased the threat of the United States to get into Israel’s conflict with Iran.
“Repeatedly, the enemies of the United States have come to know that if you threaten the American people, our soldiers are coming for you,” Trump said.
‘Happy birthday’
Trump had had an open dream as president of having a great military parade since his first term, which was often seen in Moscow or Washington in Pyongyang.
The last such parade in the United States was at the end of the 1991 Gulf War.
When it came, Trump stood up and saluted a stage outside the White House when tanks ranged past, the plane thunder over the head and nearly 7,000 troops marched in the past.
Soldiers and military hardware from different times in American history have passed, with a declarations fighting in the wars with Japanese, German, Chinese and Vietnamese forces in the wars of the past.
The military said it costs up to $ 45 million.
But when the crowd sang “Happy Birthday” and occasionally “USA! USA!” The slogans were shouted, compared to one of the environmental rallies, the atmosphere was less intense, which took Trump to power.
The White House said “more than 250,000 patriots showed more than 250,000 Patriots,” without providing evidence. Communications director Steven Cheong described the “nine Kings” protest as “complete and complete failure”.
“Nine Kings,” organizers said that protesters gathered in hundreds of cities, AFP journalists saw large crowds in several cities.
Organizers say they are protesting against Trump’s dictatorial boundaries, and especially what he describes as a strong symbol of the parade.
“I think people are crazy like hell,” Lindsay Ross told AFP in New York.
‘Demonstrate dictatorship’
Thousands of people came out in Los Angeles against the deployment of Trump’s army in the country’s second -largest city after clashes with immigration raids.
In Los Angeles, police used Tergas and riders to clear the protesters, who gathered in front of the Federal Building in the middle of the city, which was the focus of last week’s demonstration.
AFP reporters at the scene said there was no complaint, but it seems that local officers are removing people from an area where the National Guard’s army and Marines are deployed.
Some protesters targeted Trump’s Mar-A-Lago State in Palm Beach, Florida-while a small group also gathered in Paris.
“I think it’s unpleasant,” 42 -year -old protesters Sarah Hargroo said Trump’s parade in Washington, a suburb of Betasida, called Trump’s parade “dictatorship”.
In the northern state of Minnesota, the killing of a democratic lawmaker and her husband on Saturday – in which the governor called a target attack.
Trump had rushed to condemn the attacks outside Manipolis, in which former state speaker Melissa Hartman was killed with her husband, while another state lawmaker and his wife were admitted to the hospital with bullet wounds.