{"id":2447453,"date":"2025-06-15T00:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T04:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-backs-trumps-military-parade-that-celebrated-the-very-best-of-us-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T04:07:09","slug":"fetterman-backs-trumps-military-parade-that-celebrated-the-very-best-of-us-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-backs-trumps-military-parade-that-celebrated-the-very-best-of-us-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman backs Trump\u2019s military parade that celebrated the \u2018very best of us\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffetterman-backs-trumps-military-parade-that-celebrated-the-very-best-of-us-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2447453&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) expressed support for President Donald Trump&#8217;s military parade, which celebrated the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, calling it an appropriate tribute too &#8220;the very best of us.&#8221; The event featured over 6,000 soldiers, numerous vehicles, aircraft, paratroopers, and fireworks, attracting important attendance in Washington, D.C. Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-muscles-out-chicago-prosecutor-hot-on-the-heels-of-powerful-dems\/\" title=\"Biden Muscles Out Chicago Prosecutor Hot on the Heels of Powerful Dems\">bipartisan criticism<\/a> regarding the parade&#8217;s cost and implications, it was regarded as a success with patriotic participants gathering to show support. Critics like senators Rand Paul and John Kennedy voiced concerns about the expenses, estimated between $25 million and $40 million, while others viewed it as a vanity event. In defense of the parade, Trump stated that it was vital for America to celebrate its victories like other nations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Fetterman backs Trump&rsquo;s military parade that celebrated the &lsquo;very best of us&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2148461\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-fetterman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John Fetterman<\/a> (D-PA) fully approved of President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s military <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/parade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">parade <\/a>that took place on Saturday, saying it celebrated &ldquo;the very best of us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The parade, which marked the 250th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Army., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3442213\/trump-gets-first-term-wish-of-military-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">featured <\/a>more than 6,000 soldiers marching down the streets of Washington, D.C., along with approximately 150 vehicles and 50 aircraft. It also included paratroopers jumping out of planes and fireworks to cap the event.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3441804\/senate-republican-limit-judges-nationwide-injunctions-block-federal-policies\/\">Senate Republican leadership looks to limit ability of judges to block federal policies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3441314\/alex-padilla-fundraising-democrats-kristi-noem-encounter\/\">Democrats cash in on Alex Padilla&rsquo;s clash with federal agents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3441288\/senate-seersucker-day-bipartisanship\/\">Senate seersucker tradition fosters bipartisanship in polarizing times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Fetterman backed the event, which he called an &ldquo;appropriate&rdquo; celebration, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenFettermanPA\/status\/1934022160068092021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"post \">post <\/a>on X.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This parade is comprised of our sons, daughters, mothers and fathers &mdash; the very best of us. Regardless of your politics, it&rsquo;s appropriate to celebrate the 250 years of sacrifice, dedication and service,&rdquo; he posted alongside the replay of the nearly three<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >-hour-long event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic senator&rsquo;s approval came after Trump faced criticism from both sides of the aisle for his decision to hold the event.<\/p>\n<p>Days before the anniversary celebration, Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and John Kennedy (R-LA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3437862\/republican-senators-criticize-250th-anniversary-army-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"expressed \">expressed <\/a>concern about the cost, which is estimated to fall between $25 million and $40 million.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t spend the money if it were me,&rdquo; Kennedy&nbsp;said. &ldquo;The United States of America is the most powerful country in all of human history. We&rsquo;re a lion, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-fans-gop-anxiety-with-off-year-election-performance-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Elon Musk fans GOP anxiety with off...year election performance ... Washington Examiner\">lion doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t have to tell you it&rsquo;s a lion. Everybody else in the jungle knows, and we&rsquo;re a lion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Paul also had reservations about the parade&rsquo;s imagery.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Never been a big fan of goose-stepping soldiers in big tanks and missiles rolling down the street,&rdquo; Paul said. &ldquo;So if you asked me, I wouldn&rsquo;t have done it.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the aisle, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a well-known Trump critic, previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3428036\/adam-schiff-horrified-by-trump-military-vanity-parade\/\" title=\"said \">said <\/a>that he was &ldquo;horrified&rdquo; by what he called Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;military vanity parade.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;It just shows how much danger there is from this now unrestrained executive,&rdquo; he said on the&nbsp;<em>Lovett or Leave It podcast<\/em> in early June.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the bipartisan backlash before the event, it proved to be a huge success, as thousands decked out in patriotic and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/maga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MAGA<\/a>-themed garb gathered in the nation&rsquo;s capital for the first military&nbsp;parade&nbsp;there since 1991.<\/p>\n<p>In an apparent justification of the parade on Saturday, Trump told the crowd, &ldquo;Every other country celebrates their victories &mdash; it&rsquo;s about time America did, too.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2148461\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2148461\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fetterman supports Trump&#8217;s military parade honoring the U.S. Army<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2447454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/trump-melania-dc-military-parade.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7921,54530,3634],"class_list":["post-2447453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-fetterman","tag-military-parade","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/trump-melania-dc-military-parade.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447457,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447453\/revisions\/2447457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}