The weekend’s grand military parade in Washington to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary was a feel-good patriotic triumph and a rebuke to Democrats and their mean-spirited, small-minded anti-Trump protests.
America has the mightiest army in the world. It’s something to be proud and patriotic about. Why not celebrate?
And what a show it was, with uniforms dating back to the Revolutionary War, 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles and 50 helicopters participating, not to mention a robot dog and drones.
The parade was a display of pride in our troops and their awesome weaponry, but importantly, it also stood as a warning to our adversaries at a time of global peril, amid the specter of war in Iran.
“Time and again, America’s enemies have learned that if you threaten the American people, our soldiers are coming for you,” the president said in a brief but stirring speech, which lauded the grit of America’s soldiers without mentioning Iran or any hostile nation by name. Nonetheless, the warning was clear.
“Your defeat will be certain, your demise will be final, and your downfall will be total and complete because our soldiers never give up, never surrender, and never, ever quit. They fight, fight, fight, and they win, win, win.”
The Army’s day
Here was the unmistakable echo of the moment almost a year ago when candidate Trump rose to his feet after surviving an assassin’s bullet, blood streaming down his face, fist raised, and uttered the immortal words “Fight, fight, fight” — which led him, of course, to “win, win, win,” to the never-ending chagrin of the Trump-deranged.
But that was the only self-referential moment in the parade. The crowd spontaneously sang “Happy Birthday” to him at the end, but Trump seemed content to let the Army be the star that day.
Of course, his detractors sneered that the parade was a self-aggrandizing display to satisfy his ego because it coincided with his birthday.
But Saturday, June 14, really was the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States Army in 1775, more than a year before the Declaration of Independence.
“There was an army before there was a nation” was the motto of the day, something worth remembering. Another way of putting it is that there would have been no nation without an army.
“Peace through strength” is not possible without the military.
June 14 was also Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of Old Glory as the official national flag by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777.
It was providence that Trump’s 79th birthday also was June 14. Providentially, too, the forecast bad weather did not rain on his parade, even though Minnesota’s weirdo Gov. Tim Walz wished it would.
In any case, plans for celebrating the Army’s 250th birthday were already in the works under the last administration, but Joe Biden would have had a couple of tanks, maybe a fitness event and probably a drag display. Whatever he decided, it would have been an embarrassment.
Biden is the reason the Taliban threw their own military parade with our equipment after his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, so Democrats should really have kept quiet rather than rail against Trump’s parade as a “vulgar,” “authoritarian” abomination and a waste of money, as if they ever cared about that. They do know a thing or two about vulgarity, it’s true.
But the estimated cost of Saturday’s parade, $25 million to $45 million, is a steal, considering the military spends nearly $2 billion a year on recruitment, money down the drain during the woke Biden era. But now recruitment is soaring; targets for the year were met in just the first five months of the Trump administration.
This success is not what the Hate America First crowd wants us to focus on.
So the Dems and their militant proxies staged a series of protest-cum-riots across the country Saturday to take attention away from the military parade, using various branding efforts, the most preposterous of which was “No Kings.”
What a flop. The irony of shouting “No Kings” at a parade honoring the Army that freed America from a king seemed to be lost on them.
Continue reading over at The New York Post:
Miranda Devine: Army’s 250th anniversary parade was a celebration of America — unlike foolish ‘No Kings’ protests https://t.co/dHsckhIvNc pic.twitter.com/aWR7XxsQCL
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) June 16, 2025
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