Before a crowd of cheering soldiers at an event that seemed more like an election rally than an address to the troops, Donald Trump defended his decision to host the first large military parade in Washington since 1991.
“A lot of people say we don’t want to do that. I say yes we do,” he told the soldiers at Fort Bragg in North Carolina this week to the approval of the assembled crowd. “We want to show off a little bit.”
The commemoration of the Army’s 250th anniversary on Saturday — which coincides with the president’s 79th birthday — will be an unsubtle projection of power by a commander-in-chief who revels in showmanship.
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