The Pentagon and White House are planning a military parade requested by President Trump, breaking with U.S. tradition. A White House official familiar with the planning described the discussions as “brainstorming” and said nothing was settled. President Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, attend the traditional Bastille Day military parade in Paris last July. Troops march over Arlington Memorial Bridge as they head toward the Pentagon during the National Victory Day Parade on June 8, 1991. “A military parade,” he said, “is the kind of thing that can easily be overdone.”Read more:Why Trump’s military parade won’t be ‘like the one in France’Trump and Macron, once cast as adversaries, show they have much in common

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2018 23:08 UTC