While Donald Trump celebrates his birthday with a military parade, a political attack shakes the country. The question remains between robot dogs, cheering calls and protests: Where do the USA are going?
“Every other country celebrates its victories,” calls US President Donald Trump. “It is time for America to do that too.” His words sound over the National Mall. A large stage is built between the White House and the Washington Monument. Large video screens broadcast his around eight minutes long speech that day, when he celebrates his 79th birthday with a military parade, which is $ 45 million. Officially, the event is said to be the 250th anniversary of the US Army.
But it is an open secret: since Donald Trump was invited to a large military parade by the French President in 2017 on the national holiday of France, he wanted to organize something like this himself. At that time, during his first presidency, his own generals in the Pentagon spoke to him. This time Trump apparently doesn’t have to convince anyone anymore. He gets his gift, which is more than just an anniversary. Trump is about a new self -image for the whole country.
When the first of around 7,000 soldiers march along the Constitution Avenue, which is supposed to commemorate the constitution of the United States, the commentator calls through the microphone: “Our military is older than our nation.” He sets the tone. America is not primarily this idea of the first democracy that day. The message should be: Even before it was born, the United States was basically a military nation, a country of the fight.
Donald Trump likes to stage himself as a fighter, even if he never served. As a commander-in-chief, America’s commander-in-chief, he is in the stands and says: “Our soldiers never give up. They never give up and never give up. They fight, fight, fight. And they win, win, win.” When he speaks the words “Fight, Fight, Fight”, a man in the crowd stretches his fist into the sky. Just as Trump did in the past election campaign after he had almost been shot by an assassin. He was lucky that the ball only grazed his right ear.
A democratic MP and a senator from Minnesota had no. A presumably politically motivated perpetrator shot the two in their house in Brooklyn Park a few hours before the parade. The politician succumbed to her injuries. The senator was seriously injured. The perpetrator, a man with right -wing extremist ideas, was able to flee for the time being. The act is now like a shadow on this day when Trump actually only wanted to celebrate. “Such horrible violence will not be tolerated in the United States,” Trump wrote in his social network Truth Social in the morning.
In the evening, however, hundreds of rifles can be seen in Washington, pipes and cannons of the tanks and Haubitzen. Drones buzz over the soldiers and even robot dogs through the streets. They give an impression of how wars can be held in the future. Panzer grenadiers sit on the hatches of their chain vehicles and wave into the cheering audience on the side of the road. One forms a heart with his hands. Another grabs the on -board cannon, grins and pretends to shoot with her. “Let’s go boys,” calls a man from the crowd.
