The Military’s Birthday Parade Rolls Quietly Through Trump’s Washington

He was a soldier in a revolutionary war costume sitting under a tree, walking and passing on his phone. This was the celebration of the two hundred and five -year anniversary in the capital in the capital, and I was looking for the entrance to the fitness competition and the cake cutting ceremony, before the big show at night. While walking on Istiqlal Street, shortly before noon, I heard a debt. Behind the construction of the Ministry of Agriculture, thousands of soldiers were formed. They spent the night sleeping at the headquarters of the Federal Agency – workers were asked to work a distance to accommodate them – and now they were flowing on the Muggy Day for their procession. Every conflict in the history of the army was scheduled to be carefully restored with the performance of a designer, and therefore the soldiers were wearing the fashion of the period: some of them from the revolutionary war, others in clothes of civil war, global wars, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War. The uniform was rented and shipped from Hollywood.
A year ago, when the army made a permit asking to celebrate the anniversary in the capital, the idea was for about three hundred individuals and four defenders, with more than a hundred foldable chairs. But the Foundation coincides with sharing its birthday with the president Donald Trump. Now, the whole was a completely different context. The offer will cost forty -five million dollars. The unified army entered the streets a week ago, in Los Angeles, after Trump deployed the National Guard and Marine forces to the city in response to Protests against Ice Raids. Trump had said that any demonstrators against the military parade in the capital, in the meantime, would meet “a very big force.” About the capital, I heard people about whether Saturday would be like the Tiananmen Square. In other cities, a series of “No Kings” protests was to be held for the day of the event. Laura Lumer, a Maga The influencer warned her followers against “staying tied when they are in public places this week.” On the day of the show, in what appeared to have worked as political violence, in Minnesota, two democratic lawmakers – one of whom were killed, and the injured one – by an armed man who impersonated the personality of a police officer, according to officials.
In the capital, near the shipping entrance to the inscription and printing office, a group of soldiers was fused by another passing unit. One of the men who is beaten told me: “He keeps everyone in a state of outbreak.” “It is difficult to explain to people abroad, so we keep our unity.” He added: “If I was walking, they are likely to be preparing me, because I am the president.” He told me that many of his men were eighteen or nineteen years. Most of them did not go to the capital, and they explored the city together during the past two days, where they carried out tourism activities, then bed on the ground in the US Department of Agriculture or the regional offices building for the Department of Public Services, which is on a list of buildings that Trump plans to get rid of. When I asked him about Trump, he made it politely that the question was inappropriate. “Our mission is to fight the wars of the nation,” he said. He said about the show: “Keep the policy outside it. I told my comrades, just focus on the mission. This is huge for us for history.” “We have been assigned to do this – focus on implementing it. Do the mission, then we go home successfully and safely.” He continued, “One of these will become we will do on the second anniversary after thirty years, after fifty years, so I will likely go for a long time, or near.”
Earlier that week, in Fort Prague, the soldiers had screaming when Trump summoned his political opponents, California ruler, Gavin News, and the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass: “They are incompetent, pushed rioters, stranger, and hereditary,” Karen Bass. He sold his own merchandise at the army base, and it seems that the soldiers who appeared in his fans have been chosen to ensure the physical appearance and appropriate political inclinations. While she stood in the crowd with adolescents in the costume of the period, in the capital, the universe was different from watching in the mall where, within a few hours, Margori Taylor Green and Higseth House He will sit with the president behind the bulletproof glass. A group of green hats walked, followed by the band’s unit, practicing its tools. When I looked up, I was able to see a woman wearing a white dress standing at a luxurious luxury apartment window, staring at the scene.
I returned to the mall, where the Jumbotron advertisement was flashing to employ the army next to a large mark blowing in the wind that read “January 6 was an internal job.” I went through some demonstrators who had signs with pictures edited by Trump and Putin who embrace a shirt – “The original Moscow Grand”. The city had to feel strange and polite before the big events that were organized, as the giant security apparatus puts most of its federal buildings behind the black duel. The cross driver installed the accidental city in the empty city center, which was cordoned out of traffic by DC garbage trucks. The tanks that arrived from all over the country were sitting in the mall for a few days; It was a summer thunderstorm now threatening to hit the president’s procession. I have seen an advertisement on Craigslist “providing” fixed fees of $ 1,000 paid in the encrypted currency “to fill the seats in the red hats and golden accessories” in order to maximize the space and attendance. “
At dusk, the sky was heavy with the smoke of the wildfire that exploded from New Jersey. The Golden Army Knights, who were supposed to be the major show, faded as soon as the event began until they fell from the sky before the rain. There was no line to enter the security perimeter, which was run by TSA workers. An elderly woman has been informed in front of me that she could not bring her mini -American flags unless she removes her from her sticks, which was a potential weapon. Along the show course, the revolutionary war units were going when I entered. “There is George Washington, directly from the grave!” Someone called. Lockheed Martin and Coinbase’s motorcade for their care.
A group of hundreds of demonstrators who gathered for the “Fascist Rejection” demonstration has gone from Logan Surke to the White House. On the sidelines of the show, a number of those present held banners with messages like “Kings are butterflies, not presidents”, standing beside the spectators who applauded the tanks and who sometimes stormed the chants of the “United States of America”. There was no friction between them. The crowd was mostly calm. A child in grass crawling diapers outside the US State Building Organization; TSA workers who have ended their transformations from the present around the Simón Bolívar statue on a horse – “The Liberator”. A woman in a “hands out of democracy” traffic jacket was attracted with a family who came to the city to see the show. In the nearby place, a man carrying a banner reads “the practice of nonviolence”, who told me that he works with the residents of the poor and the homeless, said, “One hundred and twenty of them died without a house in this city, and we spent forty -five million on this? America is addicted to the worship of military idols.” A soldier passed a heart tank with his fingers. “We love you! Happy birthday!” A woman shouted at a pink hat. “This was never about Trump,” said a man at the top of a tank. “It is crazy for critics to say this. They will distort our army in the United States.”
There were a few riots in January 6, who traveled to the city for the celebrations. One of them was selling Trump’s goods outside the width gates. “It is broth, my love,” he said, from the mood. His friend said to me: “Biden and his treatment did everything in their power to disgrace this nation.” “America needs this.”
Most of the attendees were slowly broadcast from me before the fireworks are shown. My friend, who grew up in East Germany, had landed from New York to see tanks in the capital. She said that the most terrifying thing she saw is a robot dog, in an army exhibition that happened earlier in the day. “This was not like the military parade that I suffered every year until the fall of the wall, in 1989,” she said. “These were very noisy, dark and brutal affairs. Every year I was a child, I thought the Third World War started.” “We never went if we had the choice. But we didn’t do it. You cannot imagine the amount of energy that I went to make people appear to these marches in East Berlin,” she said. The sporadic crowds in Trump’s procession were charming – you can pay people in Craigmist’s, but in the United States, you cannot force them to attend. Even most Republican lawmakers sat the event.
Below the commercial center, through the missing pieces, Trump took the platform and handed the right to a group of soldiers who stood in front of the theater. “I wish you a great life,” he said. When I went out, I passed a man, put on a chair in the garden under a red umbrella, calling himself the conductor of the truth. He sat under a banner saying, “Stop hated each other because you do not agree.” The pioneers of the show who hope to avoid the rain that is flowing on it when ordering donations. And he said in Microfon: “If you put” let’s go Brandon “in this sign – which means the curse Joe Biden – I will get a rich rich overnight.” “When you do the right thing to collect people together, people walk directly in the past. Not even the house is safe, as we saw this morning.” A man who passes, in the American Crime hat, told him to return home. Mosul answered, “Take for you Old ass house. This is it for me house. I don’t even know where you are.