Donald Trump came under fire for politicising the US Independence Day celebrations, after ordering a large military parade through the nation’s capital city and planning a speech of his own at the Lincoln Memorial.
The US president has toyed with the idea of a grand show of arms since observing the 2017 Bastille Day celebration in Paris but has met with complaints about the cost of such an event and its impact on the military.
Mr Trump’s demand to include tanks and military jets in the July 4 festivities this year breaks with tradition in Washington, where hundreds of thousands of people typically gather for a night of patriotic songs and fireworks broadcast on national television.
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