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Trump’s military parade honoring Army’s 250th founding anniversary kicks off

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s historic military parade honoring the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary kicked off in the nation’s capital Saturday evening.
Thousands of Americans, including veterans, youth and dads celebrating Father’s Day, flocked to downtown D.C. wearing «Make America Great Again» hats and patriotic gear displaying Old Glory despite the balmy weather and brewing thunderstorms.
The crowds went wild with applause upon Trump’s arrival alongside first lady Melania Trump, an introduction accompanied by a gun salute as those in attendance chanted «U-S-A!» Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance also received widespread applause upon their introductions.
Live music poured through the crowds ahead of the parade, as paradegoers swayed to the music while fanning themselves in the summer D.C. heat. The crowds were heard singing «Happy Birthday» and chanting «We love Trump» after the parade officially kicked off.
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Army helicopters, including Black Hawks, Apaches, Chinooks and other military aircraft, will be used in the upcoming U.S. Army’s 250th birthday parade, which also coincides with Flag Day and President Donald Trump’s birthday. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images )
The parade stretches down Constitution Avenue, beginning near the Lincoln Memorial and concluding near the Washington Monument at about 9:30 p.m. The parade honors the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, which was established one year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and coincides with Flag Day and Trump’s 79th birthday.
The patriotic event is part of Trump’s «Task Force 250,» which was established in January by an executive order and coordinates plans celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence July 4, 2026.
The parade, however, comes as riots and protests continue in Los Angeles over the Trump administration’s efforts to deport millions of illegal aliens who flooded the nation during the Biden administration and after Israel launched preemptive strikes on Iran Thursday evening.
The parade faced stormy weather, with forecasters predicting thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and rain into the evening.
Protests in response to the military parade and recent ICE raids being conducted in Los Angeles are unfolding in cities nationwide. In Washington, a Refuse Fascism protest, an «equity march» in downtown D.C. and a «Pro-Democracy Picnic» at Fort Reno Park were scheduled for Saturday, Fox News Digital previously reported.
The security for the event has been incredibly tight, with Secret Service, police officers and military members stationed along entry checkpoints and walking among the throngs of people. Attendees were also required to go through metal detectors and undergo additional pat-downs to reach the parade route.
«No Kings» protesters converged on cities nationwide to protest what they say is Trump leading the nation like a «king,» though there will not be a «No Kings» protests in D.C. proper Saturday. Instead, those protests were held in neighboring towns and cities, such as in the Virginia cities of Alexandria and Arlington.

Army soldiers dressed in historic uniforms ahead of the U.S. Army’s 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington June 13, 2025. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Trump was asked about the «No Kings» protest during a Thursday bill-signing event at the White House.

A U.S. Army stand in front of the White House ahead of the U.S. Army’s 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, D.C., Friday, June 13, 2025. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«I don’t feel like a king,» Trump responded. «I have to go through hell to get stuff approved. A king would say, ‘I’m not gonna get this.’ A king would have never had the California mandate to even be talking. He wouldn’t have to call up (Speaker) Mike Johnson and (Senate Majority Leader John) Thune and say, ‘Fellas you got to pull this off’ and after years we get it done,» he said, referring to three resolutions he signed Thursday ending electric vehicle mandates originating in California.
«No, no we’re not a king. We’re not a king at all.»
Trump previously said any potential violent protesters targeting the parade will be met with a «very heavy force.»
TRUMP WARNS ANY POTENTIAL PROTESTORS AT HIS MILITARY PARADE WILL BE ‘MET WITH VERY BIG FORCE’

President Donald Trump hosted a military parade marking the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army and his 79th birthday June 14, 2025. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«If there’s any protest once they come out, they will be met with very big force,» Trump told reporters Tuesday. «I haven’t even heard about a protest. But people that hate our country … they will be met with very heavy force.»
The parade has been celebrated by the administration as the «biggest» military parade in U.S. history.
«We love our military and take great pride in honoring our warfighters,» Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a May statement to Fox News. «In celebration of 250 years of the U.S. Army, we will throw the biggest and most beautiful military parade in our nation’s history.»
«The president is planning an historic celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday that will honor generations of selfless Americans who have risked everything for our freedom,» White House Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley added in a comment to Fox Digital in May, previewing the parade.
«Exactly 250 years ago, the first American patriots died for the cause of Independence. We owe our freedom to them and to every solider who has given their life for our nation in the 2½ centuries since.»

Soldiers dressed in historic uniforms ahead of the Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington June 13, 2025. ( Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Approximately 6,600 U.S. soldiers were scheduled to participate in the parade. The parade was also said to include 150 Army vehicles, including the Abrams tank and 50 aircraft, including the Black Hawk.
There was a planned flyover and a parachute jump and historical military reenactors.
TRUMP TO HOST MILITARY PARADE TO CELEBRATE ARMY’S 250TH BIRTHDAY, HONOR ACTIVE-DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS, VETERANS

A military parade honoring the Army’s 250th anniversary will be held after Trump’s «Task Force 250» executive order in January. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
The parade comes after Israel launched preemptive strikes on Iran Thursday evening after months of attempted and stalled nuclear negotiations and subsequent heightened concern Iran was advancing its nuclear program. The strikes targeted Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure and killed at least four Iranian military leaders.
Iran has said the strikes were a «declaration of war.»
«Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to «make a deal.» They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!» Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday ahead of meeting with his National Security Council to discuss the strikes.
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Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
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Trump directs ICE to expand deportation efforts in America’s largest cities

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President Donald Trump on Sunday said ICE must «expand efforts to detain and deport» illegal immigrants in «America’s largest [c]ities,» including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.»
The president’s comment came in a Truth Social post on Sunday evening after a week of anti-ICE protests that have taken place in major cities across the country, with most demonstrations remaining peaceful while others turned into violent riots in places like LA and Portland.
«Our Nation’s ICE Officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History,» Trump wrote. «Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling our Mandate to the American People.»
«ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,» the president added.
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President Donald Trump on Sunday said ICE must «expand efforts to detain and deport» illegal immigrants in «America’s largest [c]ities,» including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.» (Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The immigration protests began in LA on June 7, after local ICE raids resulted in hundreds of arrests, including the arrests of those with violent criminal histories. The president immediately deployed the National Guard to the area when protests started two weeks ago, garnering criticism from Democrats insisting their presence would only escalate tensions.
As the protests and riots expanded nationally, continuing into this weekend, violence also took hold of certain crowds, injuring both federal and local law enforcement officials, as well as demonstrators.
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Law enforcement officers grab a demonstrator outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs building during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
On Saturday, an innocent bystander was fatally shot during an organized protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, when two event peacekeepers in neon vests opened fire on a suspect, Arturo Gamboa, 24, who ran toward the crowd with a rifle, and ended up shooting the wrong person.
In spite of the protests, Trump doubled down on his efforts to deport illegal immigrants in his Sunday post.
TRUMP SAYS NATIONWIDE IMMIGRATION RAIDS ON THE WAY, RIOTERS TO FACE ‘GREATER FORCE’ THAN LA
«In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,» he said. «These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens.»
He added that he wants ICE officers «to know that REAL Americans are cheering [them] on every day.»

Tensions escalated between community members and federal agents following an operation on Tuesday, June 3, in Minneapolis. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
FEDERAL OFFICIALS SLAM DEMOCRATS FOR ‘DANGEROUS’ RHETORIC AS ICE AGENTS FACE VIOLENT MOBS IN LA, NYC
«The American People want our Cities, Schools, and Communities to be SAFE and FREE from Illegal Alien Crime, Conflict, and Chaos,» he wrote. «That’s why I have directed my entire Administration to put every resource possible behind this effort, and reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned once Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia. Our Federal Government will continue to be focused on the REMIGRATION of Aliens to the places from where they came, and preventing the admission of ANYONE who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States.»
ICE has organized several high-profile raids across the country as part of the president’s campaign promise to deliver mass-deportations. Trump promised to prioritize criminal illegal aliens, but critics allege the administration is separating families and targeting non-criminal workers.
ICE SWEEPS THROUGH LA BUSINESSES AS LOCAL DEMOCRATS CRY FOUL OVER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

ICE and several other federal, state and local agencies launched a week-long immigration enforcement operation in the Houston, Texas area, which resulted in the arrests of 646 illegal immigrants. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
«I don’t think the president understands that we have entire sectors of our economy that cannot function without immigrant labor,» LA Mayor Karen Bass said on «State of the Union» Sunday.
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The Trump administration called for a halt on deportation raids on agricultural sites, hotels and restaurants, and not to arrest «noncriminal collaterals» the New York Times reported. The move came out of fears that the sweeping raids were hurting key industries in the U.S.
Fox News’ David Spector contributed to this report.
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La cruda y poco glamurosa verdad sobre los antihéroes del Salvaje Oeste

He estado obsesionado durante mucho tiempo con el hecho de que, en 1869, incluso mientras se erigía el Puente de Brooklyn, podías subirte a un tren en la Ciudad de Nueva York y, días después, desembarcar en un universo paralelo donde los guerreros comanches a caballo aún reinaban invictos sobre las Grandes Llanuras. Los dos mundos coincidieron durante un brevísimo momento, una época en la que, bajo los cielos inmensos de esa frontera indómita, también surgió ese icono tan estadounidense: el vaquero, y su alter ego aún más heroico, el pistolero del Viejo Oeste. Crecí con ellos; todos lo hicimos, sin importar el año en que nacimos. Incluso en el ocaso de la carrera de Clint Eastwood, puedes ver una película western moderna de una u otra forma cualquier noche, entre ellas una de las mejores series televisivas jamás escritas: el drama shakespeariano “Deadwood” de David Milch.
El pistolero: cómo Texas hizo salvaje el Oeste, de Bryan Burrough, una historia de esa época (idealmente combinada con el fantástico libro Empire of the Summer Moon de S.C. Gwynne, sobre los comanches durante el mismo período), es una gran desmitificación, advierte Burrough. No pretende probar que esas figuras legendarias de la frontera fueran puramente mitológicas, pero sí pone su atención en cómo fueron mitologizadas.

Olvida los duelos en las calles de Dodge City y Tombstone, las puertas de los salones oscilando al ritmo de la música de Ennio Morricone mientras el tiempo se ralentizaba y los hombres alcanzaban sus armas. Más a menudo, se trataba simplemente de asesinato: una violencia repentina y explosiva, a menudo con un componente racial contra personas negras, latinas y nativas americanas, especialmente durante los primeros años en Texas. La gente era disparada en el ojo. En la espalda. En las manos. No se necesitaba ningún truco de disparo. Se les disparaba a través de puertas, a través de paredes. Se les disparaba con pistolas, con rifles, y se les disparaba atrincherados en hoteles, burdeles, ranchos, trenes y bancos, o a la intemperie en las calles, en cualquier lugar.
Sobre el legendario John Wesley Hardin, inmortalizado por Rock Hudson en una película de 1953, por Johnny Cash en dos canciones y por Bob Dylan en todo un álbum, Burrough escribe: “Hardin recorrió las zonas rurales de Texas disparando a hombres en la cara. … Mataba a cualquiera que le irritara de alguna forma, desde hombres negros que le parecían irrespetuosos hasta hombres blancos que lo vencían en el póker o lo empujaban en una multitud; más famoso aún, probablemente mató a un hombre por roncar. Puede que haya sido el primer ‘gran’ pistolero, pero también está claro que era un maniático.”

La historia —y la muerte— de Wild Bill Hickok, uno de los más famosos de todos, es típica. Su leyenda inicial fue fantásticamente exagerada y su desenlace (momento en el que ya era un alcohólico y jugador artrítico de menos de 40 años) ocurrió mientras jugaba al póker en un salón (en Deadwood, por supuesto). Cuando “un borracho llamado Jack McCall estaba perdiendo mucho dinero,” Hickok le animó a tomarse un descanso y McCall abandonó la mesa, solo para regresar al día siguiente por la tarde. Se acercó por detrás de Hickok y “puso un Colt .45 al lado de su sien, y con las palabras ‘¡Maldito seas! ¡Toma esto!’ apretó el gatillo. Hickok murió instantáneamente.” No hubo ningún duelo, algo que la serie “Deadwood” parece haber retratado con precisión.
Este no es un libro pesado o soporífero de historia, sino un viaje rápido a través de los años 1869 hasta 1901, cuando se alinearon un conjunto específico de condiciones: el fin de la Guerra Civil, la expansión de los ferrocarriles y la ganadería extensiva en tierras abiertas, lo que llevó a un gran número de sureños, particularmente texanos, a conducir manadas hacia el oeste y el norte en territorios con poco gobierno o fuerzas del orden.

“Si piensas en la masculinidad de Texas en la posguerra como un caldero burbujeante,” escribe Burrough, “su base era el código de honor sureño, pero otros ingredientes también fueron cruciales: la convulsión de la guerra, el riesgo persistente y continuo de saqueadores mexicanos e indígenas, el rigor y la soledad de la vida en la frontera, el odioso resentimiento hacia la dominancia del norte. … De este mezcla explosiva emergió una forma marcadamente marcial de experimentar el mundo: tribal, fuertemente armada, hipermasculina, hiperviolenta y extremadamente sensible a cualquier ofensa.” Oxidando esta explosión latente se encontraba la introducción del revólver Colt, la primera pistola producida en masa, fácil de llevar, y capaz de disparar rápidamente.
En este paisaje sin ley de frágiles egos masculinos aferrándose a nociones distorsionadas y con frecuencia alimentadas por el alcohol acerca del honor, las balas vuelan, los cuerpos se acumulan, las páginas se pasan rápido y con facilidad, y vienen a la mente otros lugares e ideas: cómo estos glorificados iconos americanos no son tan diferentes de otros hombres en otras culturas y épocas mucho más fácilmente vilipendiadas, como los jóvenes que hoy en día llenan nuestras prisiones. O las culturas del honor en todas partes, como los pastunes de las regiones tribales de Pakistán y Afganistán, por ejemplo, que nunca han sido celebrados en el cine, la televisión o la música popular.

De hecho, Burrough deja claro que no había mucho que celebrar en estos hombres y sus historias, y en el momento en que sucedió, “el pistolero no era realmente ‘algo.’” “Aunque lucharon en el siglo XIX, la fama de hombres como Earp y Hickok creció durante el siglo XX, gracias a los medios de comunicación modernos, especialmente las películas de Hollywood.”
Es un recordatorio de que somos selectivos con nuestros héroes. Y que la historia de Estados Unidos no fue hecha solo por los Padres Fundadores, sino también por los pícaros, los jugadores, los mentirosos y los asesinos que han llenado durante mucho tiempo sus capítulos más sórdidos. Resulta que nuestra nación siempre ha sido moldeada también por estos últimos, y leer sobre ellos años después de los hechos, aunque fuesen antihéroes, sigue siendo una experiencia tremendamente entretenida.
Fuente: The Washington Post
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