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# Trump’s big (military) birthday parade
- URL: https://www.europeans.today/2025/06/15/trumps-big-birthday-parade/
- Published: 2025-06-15T07:30:01.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-15T23:44:18.000Z
- Description: Donald Trump marked his 79th birthday with a military parade in Washington, drawing cheers from supporters and fierce backlash nationwide for its perceived authoritarian overtones and extravagant pageantry. | Today’s Political Cartoon.
- Author: TODAY's Cartoons
- Tags: Today's Cartoon, TODAY+

On his 79th birthday, Donald Trump finally realised his long-held desire for a military parade; he staged a retro-style “military” parade in Washington D.C., claiming it honoured the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.

Amid tanks, troops, and cheers from a small crowd of MAGA supporters shouting birthday wishes at Trump rather than patriotic cheers.

Simultaneously, nationwide protests condemned the spectacle as authoritarian and wasteful, labelling it a vanity project disguised in patriotism.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2025/06/0000314-min.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2021/09/end-flat-1.png) 

### **GOING FURTHER**

- ###### [Military parade kicks off in nation’s capital with tanks, troops and 21-gun salute](https://apnews.com/article/trump-army-parade-troops-tanks-birthday-protests-4cca4da0e89908d39c820240744375a1?ref=europeans.today) | ASSOCIATED PRESS
- ###### [Trump military parade met with empty seats amid nationwide protests](https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/trump-military-parade-crowd-size-protests-s3pkrphr8?ref=europeans.today) | THE SUNDAY TIMES
- ###### [Washington parade celebrates US Army's 250th anniversary - and Donald Trump's 79th birthday](https://news.sky.com/story/us-army-250th-anniversary-parade-begins-13383852?ref=europeans.today) | SKY NEWS
- ###### [I served my country. Trump’s military parade is horrifying for a specific reason](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-military-parade-los-angeles-protests-rcna212962?ref=europeans.today) | MSNBC

  
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