Defense Secretary James Mattis, during Wednesday’s press briefing at the White House, said Trump’s “fondness for the military” is “reflected" in his request for a parade. “Permanently.”TRUMP ORDERS MILITARY ‘CELEBRATION’ IN WASHINGTON“Despots call their opponents traitors and treasonous,” Phil Mendelson, the chairman of the D.C. Council, tweeted. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser indicated Wednesday that D.C. would refuse to pay for a military parade. “Ds and most media will decry this, objecting to the costs,” Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary under George W. Bush, tweeted Wednesday. The last time a military parade marched through Washington, D.C. was at the conclusion of the Gulf War in June 1991.

Source: Fox News February 07, 2018 19:26 UTC