Big things are planned for President Donald Trump‘s military parade on Saturday. The National Mall in Washington, D.C., will be filled with parading military vehicles from the Army’s 250 years of operation.

Flying home from his first visit to Paris as president, an awestruck Donald Trump told aides aboard Air Force One that the military parade he’d just witnessed was one of the most dazzling spectacles he’d ever seen.

The federal government may spend as much as $45 million on the event, which falls on Trump's birthday but officially honors the U.S. Army's 250th birthday

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be a new spectacle for many Americans.

As a military-style parade rolls through Washington, DC on Saturday – President Donald Trump’s birthday – millions are expected to take to the streets to form what organizers believe will be the strongest display of opposition to the administration since the president took office in January.

Despite the parade, overall travel demand to Washington D.C. remains steady this weekend. Here's what travelers should know.

Flag Day 2025 is expected to be observed with a massive military parade in Washington, D.C. — and hundreds of "No Kings" protests nationwide. Saturday also marks the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Utah's Army-connected organizations will host an "Army birthday party" at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that as Washington prepares for a military parade this weekend to honor the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, U.S. adults are more likely to approve than disapprove of Presi

President Donald Trump’s warning that protesters of Saturday’s US military parade in Washington, DC, will be met with “very heavy force” threatens to chill speech and underscores the need for protesters to take precautions around digital surveillance, privacy advocates tell The Verge.

The timing for the "No Kings" protest coincides with some of the activities scheduled for Saturday in Washington, D.C. Events are expected to occur throughout D.C., starting at 8 a.m. ET, through to the Army’s 250th Birthday Parade, which is planned to go from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET.

But about 6 in 10 Americans also say that Saturday’s parade is “not a good use” of government money, including the vast majority of people, 78%, who neither approve nor disapprove of the parade overall, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The conflict in Los Angeles now forms the backdrop for Saturday’s military parade on Trump’s birthday and a nationwide “No Kings” protest.