Exclusive: President Donald Trump held a military parade in June to honor military veterans and active service members, and to celebrate the US military’s 250th birthday, Fox News Digital learned.
The parade is scheduled for June 14th, the 250th birthday of the US Army and Trump’s birthday.
President Donald Trump will salute at a campaign rally in Vandaria, Ohio, March 16, 2024. (AP/Jeff Dean)
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The parade includes reenacters and equipment from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the Gulf War/Desert Storm, and the Earth War on Terrorism (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria). It also features active service members and students from the US military academy.
President Donald Trump salutes as he attends a ritual at the Lake of Wreaths at the Graves at the Unknown Soldiers’ Tomb at Arlington National Cemetery on May 25, 2020, to commemorate the anniversary in Arlington, Virginia (Nicolas Cam/AFP via Getty Images)
“The President is planning a historic celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday, honoring a generation of selfless Americans who put everything at risk for our freedom,” Vince Haley, director of the White House National Policy Council, told Fox News Digital.
“Just 250 years ago, the first American patriots died due to the cause of independence. We owed freedom to them and to all the lawyers who have given our country life in the second centuries ever since.”
The parade comes after Trump signed an executive order in January to create “Task Force 250.” It focuses on coordinating plans and activities to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence. The 250th anniversary of the founding of America is July 4th, 2026.
“As one of the first events of the year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary, the commemorative parade is an appropriate homage to the service, sacrifice and selflessness of brave men and women who dressed in uniform and gave their lives to defend the greatest experiment in Liberty known to Man.
The White House coordinates closely with the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Park Service, and many other agencies planning the parade. (Alex Brandon/Pool via Reuters)
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The White House coordinates closely with the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Park Service, and many other agencies to plan “this epic event celebrating veterans, active service members and military history.”
“We love the military and take great pride in honoring fighter jets,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegses told Fox News Digital. “To celebrate 250 years of the US Army, we cast the largest and most beautiful military parade in our country’s history.”
Meanwhile, the task force is coordinating “the plan and activity of federal agencies to surprise the 250th anniversary of American independence.”
“We love the military and take great pride in honoring fighter jets,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegses told Fox News Digital. (Robert Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
Task Force 250 is based on a bicentennial celebration in the US half a century ago. The celebration “emphasized the national renewal of our establishment ideals after national unrest and divisional periods,” the White House told Fox News Digital.
A flashback to 2017 ahead of Trump’s speech to Congress, 250 speaks asking “What does America look like?”
Led by a major celebration of 2026, the White House celebrated the anniversary of major events in the American establishment, including the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Death Death,” the 250th anniversary of Paul Rebya’s famous ride in April, and the 250th anniversary of Lexington’s 250th anniversary.
The executive order that established the task force revived the executive order from Trump’s first administration and established the National Garden of American Heroes, a statue park commemorating 250 historically important Americans. (via Nicholas Kamm/AFP/AFP Getty Images)
The executive order that established the task force revived the executive order from Trump’s first administration, establishing the National Garden of American Heroes, a statue park commemorating the historically important 250 Americans, and the first 100 statue commissioned artists.
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The National Garden of American Heroes celebrates “American Heroes” after dozens of memorials to Americans, including the president and father.
The order also revives orders that protected American monuments, memorials and statues from destruction and vandalism.
The White House said the 250th anniversary of the United States would “give the American people the opportunity to unite a shared history and a common future as a nation.”
During Trump’s first term, he held a unique “Salute to America” event on July 4, 2019.
The event included a prominent display of tanks parked near the national mall and military hardware with military overpasses by a series of aircraft. It also included a speech from the president about the stairs at the Lincoln Memorial and a typical fireworks display.
Brooksingman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and Fox Business.
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