President Trump is hosting a parade celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army today, bringing tanks and soldiers to the streets of Washington, D.C., for the capital's first major military parade in more than three decades.

The festival and military parade are Saturday, June 14, with tanks, aircraft and thousands of soldiers on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Millions of Americans are likely to tune in, whether to show bipartisan support for the troops, for Trump or just out of curiosity.

The parade, which falls on the president’s 79th birthday, is being held to commemorate the Army’s 250th anniversary.

Dissent against the parade is also coming partly from within one of Trump’s most reliable support bases: veterans. Although former U.S. military personnel have historically voted with wide margins in favor of Trump and the Republican Party, there is a growing discontent among some within the community.

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 military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history. Yet it still reflects global traditions that serve a range of political and cultural purposes.

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

By some measures, President Donald Trump’s military parade has been years in the making. The event planned for Saturday will mark the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday, with thousands of soldiers and dozens of massive military vehicles and aircraft descending on the National Mall.

While the idea might be novel for many Americans, military parades are common spectacles in many parts of the world.

The parade is scheduled to take place along the Constitution Avenue NW. It begins from the Constitution Avenue NW and the 23rd Street and will conclude on the 15th Street alongside the National Mall. The ending point is near the National Museum of African American History and Culture.