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Trump Reportedly Wants Pentagon To Stage Military Parade Down Pennsylvania Ave.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirms that the president has directed the Pentagon to look into such an event, possibly to take place on Veterans Day.

President Trump, apparently inspired by the Bastille Day parade he witnessed last summer during a trip to Paris, has ordered the Pentagon to look into staging something similar — but naturally bigger and better — for Washington, D.C., the White House confirmed Tuesday.

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