Army plans for a potential parade on Trump's birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns
Source: AP
Updated 7:14 PM EDT, May 1, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
The planning documents, obtained by the AP, are dated April 29 and 30 and have not been publicly released. They represent the Army’s most recent blueprint for its long-planned 250th birthday festival on the National Mall and the newly added element — a large military parade that Trump has long wanted but is still being discussed.
While the slides do not include any price estimates, it would likely cost tens of millions of dollars to put on a parade of that size. Costs would include the movement of military vehicles, equipment, aircraft and troops from across the country to Washington and the need to feed and house thousands of service members.
High costs halted Trump’s push for a parade in his first term, and the tanks and other heavy vehicles that are part of the Army’s latest plans have raised concerns from city officials about damage to roads.
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You for that idea.
Either would be perfect. Sorry my skills are
lacking in the image embedding area.
I also think the hat Dreyfuss wore was dinner plate size. Like Russian generals wear. Appropriate as hell.
This is TFG's dream come true... 
Since most of the D.C. streets are asphalt-paved and that gets hot real fast, imagine the kinds of ruts that a tank (or many tanks) would do to that.
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Yup, I’m Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, the local politician who finally got thru to the reality star in the White House with the realities ($21.6M) of parades/events/demonstrations in Trump America (sad).
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Aug 17, 2018
The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up! I will instead...
8:52 AM · Aug 17, 2018
from Washington, DC
What ultimately happened is that they had some "brand new"
Shermans and Abrams in a "static display" at the Lincoln Memorial for the Fourth of July celebration. They brought them closer to the city by train, then moved them to flatbeds, then had a big crane take them off the flatbeds, and then drove the flatbeds through the city to the Memorial -
(below from here - https://wtop.com/fourth-of-july/2019/07/tank-watch-2019-july-4-tanks-seen-on-the-move-in-dc/)
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NEW — @USArmy says armored vehicles WILL move through WASHINGTON TONIGHT.
Specifically:
Two M1 Bradley Armored Personnel Carriers.
Army spokesperson says, “you’ll see them moving through your neighborhood, but DON’T PANIC.”
@WUSA9 #SaluteToAmerica #FourthofJuly
8:02 PM · Jul 2, 2019
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Just left the Nats game, and we were greeted by Trump's tanks rolling through just outside the ballpark @fox5dc @nbcwashington
10:04 PM · Jul 2, 2019
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Trump touts ‘brand new’ World War II-era tank display at Fourth of July celebration
And Russia laughed - Russian Media Reported ‘Rusty’ Tanks Displayed in Washington, DC on July 4