Yes, Flag Day Is Trump’s Birthday — and the Army’s 250th Anniversary – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

Unreal.

So, President Trump is planning for the decidedly traditional military parade in Washington on June 14. That date, of course, is Flag Day. But by the sheerest of coincidences that is also the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. And yes, yes indeed, June 14 is also the president’s birthday.

Pass the smelling salts.

Leave it to — but of course! — the Associated Press to run this headline: “Army plans for a potential parade on Trump’s birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns.”

It is, apparently, necessary to point out to the anti-Trumpers at the AP a couple of obvious realities.

First, every human on the planet has a birthday. And it’s always — 100% of the time — a day they did not choose. Trump did not choose Flag Day as his birthday.

And to the historical point? Flag Day has a long, long, very long history of being celebrated by Americans, including presidents of the United States.

Not to mention that, all by itself, the 250th anniversary of the decidedly historic United States Army is something for Americans to celebrate. The Army’s own website headlines: “Army prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday on June 14, 2025.”

My own late Dad served in the Army in World War II — you bet he deserves a parade!

The U.S. Army has been around protecting and serving Americans for 250 years, dating from June 14, 1775 — of course, they deserve a parade!

Over here at the U.S. military’s site, there is a history of Flag Day. Among other things, it notes: 

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag’s birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag’s birthday dates to 1885 when schoolteacher BJ Cigrand organized a group of Wisconsin students to observe June 14, the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes as the Flag’s Birthday. Cigrand, now known as the Father of Flag Day, continued to publicly advocate the observance of June 14 as the flag’s birthday, or “Flag Day,” for years.

Just a few years later, the efforts of another teacher, George Balch, led to the formal observance of Flag Day on June 14 by the New York State Board of Education. Over the next few years, as many as 36 state and local governments adopted the annual observance. For over 30 years, Flag Day remained a state and local celebration.

Then it goes on to record this, bold print for emphasis supplied:

Today, Flag Day is celebrated with parades, essay contests, ceremonies and picnics sponsored by veterans groups, schools, and groups like the National Flag Day foundation whose goal is to preserve the traditions, history, pride, and respect that are due the nation’s symbol, Old Glory.

In short, the idea of going all out to celebrate Flag Day on June 14, replete with parades, is an old — very old — tradition.

Which is to say, Flag Day parades have been around long, long before President Donald Trump. The fact that Trump’s birthday — not to mention the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army — is June 14 is the sheerest and most obvious of coincidences.

Is the president celebrating the day with a traditional Flag Day parade? Well, of course!

And if the president were of a mind to get out of Washington for the day?

Here’s a decidedly incomplete list of where he could go to celebrate with a Flag Day Parade:

• Appleton, Wisconsin — Appleton will be hosting “America’s Biggest and Best Flag Day Parade Since 1950!”
• Hudson, New York — 2025 30th Anniversary Celebration Hudson Flag Day Festival on Saturday June 14th, 2025
• Three Oaks, Michigan — “From its humble beginnings in 1953 to becoming the nation’s largest Flag Day parade, this timeline highlights the key moments that have shaped this cherished tradition.”
• La Mesa, California — “The La Mesa Flag Day Parade is a cherished annual tradition that celebrates our nation’s colors and spirit of patriotism. Since its inception in 1997, the parade has become a beloved community event, featuring vibrant floats, marching bands, and local groups.”

Suffice it to say, there are examples aplenty like those above, all in this or that community somewhere across America, where big, colorful, and decidedly patriotic parades are being held. With salutes to the Army’s 250th as well.

Washington, D.C., of course, is the nation’s capital. Of course, the city will have a huge Flag Day parade and be celebrating the Army. And not for the first time.

As someone who lived in Washington for a considerable time, I have seen all manner of colorful and large parades march through the streets of Washington, marching down the city’s broad, historic streets and winding around the city’s famous monuments to Founding Fathers or historic events.

The notion that the Flag Day parade should be scrubbed because it falls, by sheer accident, on President Trump’s birthday is nothing more than yet another example of the pitiful Trump Derangement Syndrome at work. And the fact that there are those recoiling at the military aspects of this parade — a parade replete with Army soldiers and Army tanks celebrating the Army — says nothing about the flag or the Army, but about them.

Shocking.

Not.

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