Anti-Trump Washington Post columnist admits he loved military parade

Anti-Trump Washington Post columnist Max Boot admitted connected Sunday that helium loved the subject parade successful Washington, D.C, successful spite of his reservations astir the event.

Boot wrote helium was initially acrophobic that President Donald Trump would crook the parade — held Saturday to grant the U.S. Army’s 250th day — into a "political pageant."

"But my apprehension began to melt distant arsenic soon arsenic the euphony started to play and the soldiers began to march. Dear reader, I anticipation you bash not deliberation I americium going brushed connected Trump if I archer you that I thoroughly enjoyed the full parade," Boot wrote. 

Boot said helium loved watching soldiers marching successful play uniforms and added that helium was "thrilled" by the flyovers.

Anti-Trump Washington Post columnist Max Boot admitted connected Sunday that helium enjoyed the subject parade successful Washington, D.C., implicit the weekend. (Screenshot/Washington Post, Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Prior to the parade, "The View" co-host Sara Haines said the lawsuit reminded her of Russia and North Korea.

"I deliberation of Russia and North Korea and visuals of radical saluting and doing things and that’s conscionable not what I deliberation of erstwhile I deliberation of the U.S.," she said connected Friday.

However, Boot described the solemnisation arsenic "America's service connected display."

"This was not a menacing, goose-stepping parade a la Moscow oregon Pyongyang. It was America’s service connected display, and I appreciated however galore of the GIs were women oregon taste minorities — a reminder of the limits of [Secretary of Defense Pete] Hegseth’s anti-DEI purges successful a unit that genuinely represents the full country," Boot wrote. 

A subject parade commemorating the Army's 250th day and coinciding with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday, connected Saturday, June 14, 2025, successful Washington.  (AP)

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The anti-Trump columnist said 1 of the arguable parts of the parade included the "participation of [the] 70-ton M1 Abrams tank," arsenic it could "recall unpleasant images from different countries of what happens erstwhile tanks participate the capital."

"But I enjoyed seeing the smoke-belching monsters rattle down the street, and it was hard to spot thing threatening astir it erstwhile the unit members were smiling and waving astatine the spectators and, successful immoderate cases, making bosom gestures with their hands," Boot said. 

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Boot said his enjoyment of the parade was apt owed to the information that helium wasn't adjacent wherever Trump sat and spoke.

"I was greatly relieved that Trump, successful a uncommon magnitude of self-control, kept his remarks abbreviated and focused connected the Army — not, arsenic is usually the case, connected glorifying himself oregon bashing his governmental opponents," helium wrote. 

Members of the U.S. Army transverse Arlington Memorial Bridge to commencement the parade down Constitution Avenue marking the 250th day of the U.S. Army connected June 14, 2025, successful Washington, D.C.  ((Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images))

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Boot besides pointed to a Rolling Stone header that read, "Trump’s subject day was a gross failure," adding, "I deliberation that’s right, but the flip broadside is that the Army’s subject parade was an implicit success."