The US army celebrated its 250 th birthday on Saturday (14 June) as the military parade featured about 6,600 soldiers.
Internet users have flocked to the social media platforms saying that the United States Army sent a big BF to President Donald Trump after noticing a single detail impossible to miss in the military parade that was held during the weekend.
Members of the military paraded along 250th anniversary of US Army in Washington DC on Saturday (14 June).
Attending the parade with his Republican colleagues were his wife Melania, a handful of other individuals in his administration as well as military leaders as the 78year old president reminded the city of the military parade that had cost the city around 45 million dollars, according to Reuters.
Tonight it is with a firm conviction and deep sense of pride, that we offer the declared certitude of the future; years to come, generations to come, that whenever there is need to be done and whatever the threat that is posed, the American Soldier will always be there. According to Trump, he said in the ceremony.
It was the first such event in the states since 1991 when 6,600 soldiers and accompanied by the tanks and the robot dogs marched down Constitution Avenue.
Things however did not seem to sit too well with many global citizens who went on to criticize the parade and even point out that it was probably an unenthusiastic decision on the part of soldiers to not show up in full force to the event after a video began circulating on social media of the soldiers marching in somewhat a disheveled fashion and with limited coordination in front of a relatively low attended facility.
One X user re-shared a part of the parade with the vitriolic comment: I watched or participated in a lot more of these military parades than I care to recall.
Watched scores probably as a spectator. And this is the worst and sloppiest marching I ever had seen at a formal military parade.
They can feel it is a big middle finger to Trump given by the soldiers.
Second round: “Why so relaxed they look? Par-dy, that is military parade quality?”
The third one reckoned: “It must be a euphemism of ‘We hate this mother f**king president’, and the fourth spent time theorizing: “Our troops are solidly trained, prepared, and skilled. Apparently, there is nothing but sending a message to Trump.”
One of them said: “The looked as though they did not even want to be there.”
That is good as far as they are concerned! lauded a sixth, and one was heard to exclaim: “Disorganisation was the order of the day. The energy? Dead. The message?
It?s obvious: They are not marching to Trump. They are putting up with him. It was not patriotism. It was uniformed protest.”
I’ve marched in more military parades than I even care to remember.
Probably watched dozens more as a spectator.
And this is easily the worst and sloppiest marching I’ve ever witnessed at a formal military parade.
It feels like a big “fuck you” to Trump from the soldiers. pic.twitter.com/TIYlAbghbv
— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) June 15, 2025
According to the statement released by the White House on this occasion, more than a quarter-million patriots came in order to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army’. Concurrently, The Independent opines that due to estimates by the outside they concluded that half of the expected bodies had not shown up because there were gaps and stares at empty bleachers.
Trump addressed the arms forces by thanking them for serving and referred to US as the hottest country in the world today.
Trump enjoyed five incidents of deferral of military draft service four times on the ground of college and once on the ground of having bad feet and by the time he was 22 years old, he had managed to evade military draft four times in order to enable him to finish his college education at the University of Pennsylvania.
It was the spring of 1968, the year he was to graduate, and he was diagnosed of an ailment that earned him a fifth draft deferment that would see him not to participate in the Vietnam war, which recorded over 58,000 US deaths.
Trump was declared unfit to serve because of bone spurs in his feet, according to NHS, those are lumps of bone that grow on the bone.