U.S. President Donald Trump organized a large military parade in Washington D.C. on his 79th birthday, despite protests in many U.S. cities that accused him of authoritarian behavior, Gazeta Sinjali reports.
The parade, held along Constitution Avenue, featured over 6,000 soldiers, 128 tanks, armored vehicles, and a 21-gun salute. Trump watched the spectacle from a tribune near the White House, under a cloudy sky and light rain. This was the fulfillment of a long-held desire of the president, dating back to 2017 when he attended a military parade in Paris, but plans for a similar event in the U.S. had been postponed until now.
Protesters took to the streets with slogans like “No Kings in America” and “Homes, Not Drones,” criticizing the use of the military for symbolic purposes and the administration’s clashes with immigrants. Numerous rallies took place in hundreds of American cities, where citizens emphasized that they were defending democratic values and opposing what they described as an “egocentric display of power” by the president.
