Accompanied by his wife Melania, the tycoon attends the parade that officially commemorates the 250º Anniversary of the creation of the US Armed Forces.
The show, which according to the army can cost US $ 45 million, coincides with the Flag Daybut also with the 79th birthdaythat He said he received a call from his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to congratulate him.
Very smiling, Trump was received with songs of “Usa! Usa!” And a save from 21 cannon. A band sang the American anthem.
“I am here because I am the president of the president and also because Support to the Armed Forces“, Said Oscar Williamson, a 17 -year -old student from the state of New York.
The young man said supporting the migratory policy of the Republican: “We have welcomed too many migrants“, He said touched with a cap with the Maga slogan (For the acronym for the United States to be great again).
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Jennifer Gremmert, in Colorado, on the contrary, she is happy to “celebrate” arms forces But he is concerned about “the direction he takes” the country.
Almost 7 thousand military, some dresses with uniforms of different wars, 150 military vehiclesflown by some 50 aircraftthey travel part of an immense esplanade with emblematic monuments such as the Memorial Lincoln, In the first parade of this type since 1991, after the Gulf War.
They will end near the White Housewhere some paratrooides will deliver a flag to the commander in chief.
Trump is obsessed with organizing a parade from his first mandate, after attending One in Paris by invitation of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in 2017.
While Trump celebrates, His detractors protest.
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston And hundreds of cities were thrown into the street to denounce what they qualify as authoritarian drift in a country in deep political divisions.