Trump starts a massive military parade at the National Shopping Center

A parade in Washington, DC, which commemorates the 250th anniversary of armed services and coincided with the birthday of President Donald Trump, began on Saturday with a great demonstration of military power throughout the national shopping center.

Eighty -four military vehicles, including 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 march soldiers and other military presentations, were barrel for the celebration, which was also reduced in Trump’s 79th birthday.

With the bad weather in the forecast, the parade began half an hour before, at 6 pm

Security was strict after several recent events, including the ongoing situation between Israel and Iran and the protests for the immigration raids that began in Los Angeles last weekend. In addition, security has been on alert after the target shooting of two state legislators of Minnesota and their earlier spouses in the day.

When the DC parade was underway, the protests on the west coast seemed to intensify. After hours of peaceful protest, the Los Angeles Police and other agencies began to aggressively clean the streets of the center of Los Angeles, where the protesters had pushed against the police lines.

Who is present at the DC parade?

Trump arrived with the first lady Melania Trump, observing the procession march through Constitution Avenue from an observation post near the White House. Trump stood up and greeted the troops as he passed.

ABC News observed that some people in the crowd with magician hats and others exploded to sing “Happy Birthday”, when the parade was about to start.

The Secretary of Defense Pete Hegesh, a former soldier and army guard, and vice president JD Vance, a veteran sailor, and his family, also attended.

The American senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, also attended, who served in the National Guard.

When the parade began, the soldiers marched in uniforms that represented the largest armed conflicts in the United States from the revolutionary war to the war against terror.

The crowds did not seem to be full of the side streets throughout the mall.

During the event, Trump received a flag from a soldier who launched into the White House ellipse.

The president also gave the oath of enlistment to about 250 soldiers.

When asked on Thursday, what expects the public to remember about the US parade, Trump said: “How great our country is, very simple, and how strong our army is.”

“We have the strongest army in the world,” he added.

The event concludes with fireworks on the tide basin.

The Army said it has explained to spend between $ 25 million and $ 45 million in the parade, organized in or near the National Shopping Center.

Around 6 out of 10 Americans say that Saturday’s parade “is not a good use” of government money, according to a new survey of the Associated Press-Norc Public Affairs Research Center.

Democrats have criticized the event and their costs.

“The money must be put into medical defense investigation instead of wasted in a pomp and circumstances for the president,” said Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat of Illino, during an audience of the Senate Assignments Committee with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday. “This is not consistent with what men and women in uniform deserve.”

Trump’s parade occurred hours after hundreds of thousands of protesters met throughout the country in mass protests called “No Kings Day.”

From New York to San Francisco and in small cities, the protesters remained peaceful marching through the streets with signs and songs against administration policies, including their greatest deportation and ice raids.

Trump reached the protests when asked about them on Thursday.

“I don’t feel like a king. I have to go through hell to approve things. A king would say I’m not going to get this,” he said. “No, no, we are not a king, we are not a king at all.”