Trump gets his long-sought military parade as protests erupt nationwide

WASHINGTON – Thousands of troops left on Saturday at Washington, DC, with tanks that fill the streets and fill helicopters, while President Donald Trump organized in the military spectacle for the US Army’s 250 -year anniversary.

But the military parade, which Trump has repeatedly said that he has agreed since his first term, unfolded earlier in the day against an act of political violence that the legislators and the American public release have left behind.

Earlier on Saturday, a still delighted suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, is said to occur as a police officer and a Minnesota legislator and her husband shot and killed in what Are politically motivated murder ‘. Another Democratic legislator and his wife were also shot in a separate attack by the same suspect.

In the meantime, thousands of Trump’s opponents gathered throughout the country in mass protests as part of the demonstrations of “No Kings Day” to speak out against the policy of his administration.

Protests took place in large cities, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as smaller cities. Sub of the demonstrations saw collisions with counterpapers and law enforcement.

In Minnesota, law enforcement officials warned the public not to attend the planned demonstrations throughout the state after the intended shootings of the Democratic state laws. But protests still showed up, said sub -that the attacks that happened made the demonstrations more important.

Still, Trump, which fell the 79th birthday on the same day, you urged an army in the capital of the nation – an idea that was brought down by his first Terst by Pentagon officials.

Now, with complete control over the government and an administration stacked with loyalists, Trump got the Grandioso show in force that he always provides, even in the midst of the critics.

The parade started on Saturday evening about 30 minutes earlier than initially planned for thunderstorms in Washington, DC.

Trump, aware of the weather threat, rather followed his supporters on a social post truth earlier on Saturday that the parade went on “rain or shine”.

Sub of the Viadovers planned for the Parade were canceled because of the bad weather, NBC News reported, referring to an official of the US secret service.

A number of Trump cabinet members accompanied him during the event, including State Secretary Marco Rubio, Minister of Defense Pete Hegeset and Minister of the Interior Security Kristi. Trump was accompanied on stage by his wife, First Lady Melania Trump.

Send the day, there were military demonstrations and a wreath that lay on the grave of the unknown soldier.

Since 1991, the event would be the largest Militory Parade in Washington, DC, when President George HW Bush held a Militaray parade at the end of the Gulf War.

The dramatic split screen between DC and cities throughout the country comes across the background of continuous tensions in Los Angeles who have estimated the National Guard since Trump has started protesting to Quel about immigration enforcement police.

The celebration also as tensions in the middle, after the attacks of Israel in the nuclear locations of Iran and the retaliation attacks of Iran, remain.

A specific bottleneck for critics of the DC event, including subrepublicans, was the high price tag. All in all cost, the event that cost Col up to $ 45 million, according to a spokesperson for the army.

But Trump said that the costs are “peanuts compared to the value of doing”, in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” last month.

“Every other country celebrates their victories, it is also time that America did,” Trump said during comments on the parade.

The celebration closed off at the end of Saturday with a fireworks that went off immediately after the parade had rejected the threatening threat of storms.