Donald Trump threw a military parade in honor of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary on Saturday, June 14 (a date that happens to be the president's birthday) to the tune of $25 to $45 million. But unfortunately for Trump,

Donald Trump wanted a military parade, and Saturday he got it. Trump seemed pretty pleased by it all, but some folks on social media are convinced that the president dozed off, at least for a few seconds, during the festivities. It’s not just talk.

That's true even though the June 14 parade itself turned out to be a damp and relatively low-key affair. Thousands of spectators lined a stretch of Constitution Avenue in an off-and-on drizzle to applaud a slow-moving procession of troops,

“Earlier today, during a parade held in support of our nation’s military and organized by President Donald Trump, the song ‘Barracuda’ by Heart was played without permission or authorization from us,“ Wilson said in a post on Instagram late Saturday night.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes couldn’t contain his laughter on air Friday while reading a fundraising email from President Donald Trump. The email asked for donations for his Saturday military parade, which, as it turns out, most Americans aren’t that eager to fund.

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.