Trump Freaked Out Pentagon Lawyers With Push for Another Huge Military Parade

[Eugene]

Original reporting: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action (CNN)

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Source: The Daily Beast

Trump Freaked Out Pentagon Lawyers With Push for Another Huge Military Parade

Ewan Palmer
Wed, October 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM EDT
2 min read

Uniformed military lawyers were alarmed by a demand from Donald Trump to have tens of thousands of active-duty troops take part in a military parade during the president’s visit to an Army base, according to a report.

Just before Trump’s June visit to Fort Bragg, the White House called the base and told officials that the president wanted all 50,000 troops stationed there to put on a parade, CNN reported, citing unnamed sources.

Trump’s June 10 trip to Fort Bragg in North Carolina was to mark the Army’s upcoming 250th birthday. Just four days later, a long-planned, multimillion-dollar military parade celebrating the Army’s anniversary—which just so happens to have coincided with Trump’s 79th birthday—took place through the streets of Washington, D.C.

Military lawyers at the Pentagon strongly advised against Trump’s demand for another parade at Fort Bragg, citing Department of Defense policy that prohibits the use of active-duty personnel for political events.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-freaked-pentagon-lawyers-push-155502020.html

[tanyev]

1. "And he wants to see them goose-stepping!.....Yes, you heard me correctly."

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