Trump promises a “unforgettable” military parade to the DC, but who is for? | Donald Trump’s news

Washington, DC – The tanks enter the streets of the United States of America.

Twenty-eight 61-tonne Abrams battle tanks, more precisely, as well as 56 armed Stryker and Bradley Fighting vehicle fleet, artillery launch bundle herd, 6,600 US troops, 34 horses-plus two mules. And the dog.

It is part of the military festival on Saturday, submitted in recent weeks by an exaggerated administration of US President Donald Trump.

June 14 marks the birthday of the US Army’s 250th and apparently Trump’s 79th birthday. The US president has promised a debt of “Thunder tanks and breathtaking flights that roam through our capital,” which will simply be “unforgettable.”

The event arrives almost six months after the second term of Trump, during which he has tried to test the limits of the president’s power and his legal authority to use military forces as law enforcement forces in the US. It was further shown in this week’s US National Guard and Marine placement to protest his immigration policy in California.

So what is the audience of Trump’s military parade? And what message will it send?

“Apparently, when so much money and resources are transferred to an event like a military parade that coincides with a birthday, it should be for some reason,” Al Jazeera told Irena Gammel, a professor and historian of Toronto Metropolitene University.

“This will be a grandeous spectacle. It will be choreographed and it will be symbolically charged,” she said.

“America loves debt”

Trump’s desire for a flashy military parade with the US war -fighting hardware in a full display is well documented. It tracks his visit to France’s 2017 Bastille Day procession, after that, “We will have to try to supplement it.”

Since then, various reports have detailed the rejection of the first term of defense officials, who claimed that such a cavalry would be an awkward merger of guerrilla policy and military power.

One official, the chairman of Paul Selva, the chief of the then Joint Staff, even directly warned Trump that such parades were “what dictators do” in the book published by Peter Beiker and Susan Glass in 2022.

Of course, according to Barbara Perry, president of the University of Virginia, the parade is hardly rarely not in the US civilian culture, which regularly plans to celebrate national holidays, local triumphs or historical events. This is directly from the “American Song Book”, she added, pointing to the classics of Harry Richman, 1932, I love the show.

But in addition to two mules and a dog, located as part of the Army Cavalry division, on Saturday’s scheduled march for a number of other reasons, for a number of reasons.

Although the demonstration of military assets was more frequent for presidents during the Cold War, practice has not been regular for decades. There are usually similar moves to mark the US victory or at least at the end of participation in foreign conflicts, noted Perry, as was the case in the last comparison, commemorating the end of the Gulf War in 1991.

Perry said the presidential birthday has a parade on the president’s birthday, regardless of the army’s anniversary overlap, as well as “there is a tendency to the authoritarian”.

“I feel that it leads us from the innocent movement of patriotism to the demonstration of military power, which is not only enemies abroad but also in the minds of administrations,” Perry said.

“It moves even more to the cult of personality if it falls on the president’s birthday,” she added. “I am convinced that any president would have celebrated this anniversary of the founding of the US Army, but not in this way.”

“Personal Police Power”

Some observers have already criticized including the best democratic legislators and a handful a veteran group as a dedication To the “egoist”, Trump’s decision to place the National Guard in Los Angeles protests this week without the consent of the national governor, and his subsequent step to send sailors to the city, has pointed out a long shadow over the upcoming competition.

Trump has not yet referred to the 1807 law on the uprising, which would allow military forces directly to participate in local law enforcement. But his actions have already sent a power report that converts Saturday’s parade optics, said Marjorie Cohn, Emerita Emerita Thomas Jefferson’s lego at San Diego and former president of the US National Lawyer Guild.

Before sending sailors to California, Trump had already used military forces to support his solid line immigration policy, including sending sailors to the south border to support federal agents.

“Trump sees US military forces as his personal police power as he tries to use it to” strengthen “the southern border and suppress local protests against his inhumane policy,” Kohn said al -Jazeera. “He has considered referring to the Law on Rebellion, albeit illegally to facilitate this agenda.”

Trump’s approach to military purposes with his aggressive stress test of the executive, which he has tried to use the federal government and civil society to transform, especially when it comes to education, health care, national rights, freedoms of immigrant citizens and trade with foreign partners.

“He speaks not only to the US but also to the world,” said Koh, framing the debt as part of Trump’s widest mission, so that “you can consider himself the most powerful people in the world.

For its part, US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegsets, pointed out the placement of the National Guard troops in California, whose local officials have decided as unnecessary escalation, could be part of a broader turning of the local military strategy.

“I think we come to another stage, especially under President Trump, focusing on homeland, where the National Guard and reserves become a critical component of how we provide this homeland,” Hojset said at a Congress at the Congress.

Shortly thereafter, Trump promised a wide and muscular suppression from the planned constitutionally protected protests on the day of the parade.

“For people who want to protest, they will be greeted with great power,” Trump told reporters in the oval office, because he described those who planned to showcase as “people who hate our country”.

“Using an opportunity”

During the criticism, the White House has diminished the fact that Saturday’s spectacle is also falling on Trump’s birthday. The Pentagon has said that there is no planned to recognize a personal turn or sing a happy birthday to the President.

White House official Vince Haley said earlier that the program “will be a suitable dedication to the serving, sacrifice and selflessness of brave men and women who have worn uniforms and devoted their lives to defend the greatest experiment with the person known to man”.

Speaking of Al Jazeera, Mike Lyon, retired US Army Major and Military Analyst, there was also the position of the White House that the criticism of the parade was exaggerated.

“Everything Trump does is take the opportunity to mark the armies for 250 years,” Lyon said. “Whether it’s his birthday or not, it’s just a trolling question for people who hate him.”

Lyon noted that military equipment is regularly exhibited at the “Wire Inside” events using the term military bases in the US and abroad. He distinguishes Saturday’s plans and the notorious military parade in North Korea, often used to discover other secret military achievements.

“This is not a sign that the dictator is trying to project power because we will not be North Korea and pull out the latest armed rocket, there is no secret equipment that jumps,” Lyon said.

“It’s just a celebration that gives an ordinary citizen a chance to see how this equipment looks close.”

“The message is clear enough”

Trump and his administration have also played the price tag of the event, estimated at $ 25 million to $ 45 million, but based on the damage caused by the streets caused by the military system.

Officials have described expenses in accordance with the administration’s ambitions to reduce federal civil services while increasing military funding, including a historically high $ 1 trillion defense budget.

Trump has rejected the price tag as “peanuts compared to the value it does”.

Toronto Metropolitan University Gammel also agreed that the parade could have huge value, not a memorial ability, but as a particularly powerful political instrument.

The event is a fertile basis for creating not only the local base of Trump, but also the unique supporters of the fence in his second term in the different months, she told Al Jazeera.

Covered in military images, which are considered to be holy segments of the US population, the event will be ready for an online audience to get to a “very emotional level,” Gammel said.

These images will help “naturalize values ​​not only around the military dominance, but also appreciate that combines Trump’s personal image with military personnel and with state power. This is particularly dangerous to me in all of this.”

“At a time when so many controversial elements are dismantled in the democratic system, there must be,” she added.

“We don’t have to sing much happiness on the birthday. I think the news is clear enough.”