He first proposed a military parade for Veterans Day in 2018. He said he wanted the US to "top" France's Bastille Day parade, which he attended on a visit to Paris in 2017. Local politicians asked ...

His fixation with the idea appears to have begun after he joined French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on July 14 2017 to observe the Bastille Day commemorations on the Champs Elysees and was ...

FILE - President Donald Trump, pictured on screen from left, French President Emmanuel Macron and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus watch a Bastille Day parade on the Champs Elysees avenue ...

President Donald Trump, pictured on screen from left, French President Emmanuel Macron and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus watch a Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées avenue in ...

Trump had floated the idea of holding a military parade in Washington during his first term after attending a Bastille Day parade in France. Read moreTrump guest of honour at Bastille Day parade ...

FILE - President Donald Trump, pictured on screen from left, French President Emmanuel Macron and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus watch a Bastille Day parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in ...

FILE - President Donald Trump, pictured on screen from left, French President Emmanuel Macron and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus watch a Bastille Day parade on the Champs Elysees avenue ...

The parade has its origins in Trump's first term, when he viewed a Bastille Day event down the Champs-Élysées along with French President Emmanuel Macron. Parades were back on Trump's mind ...

During his first term, Trump proposed having a parade after seeing one in France on Bastille Day in 2017. Trump said that after watching the two-hour procession along the famed Champs-Elysees he ...