President Donald Trump celebrated the US Army on its 250th birthday, praising the military branch after a grand display of the service branch’s history and equipment during a parade in Washington, D.C. “The Army keeps us free, you make us strong, and tonight, you have made all Americans very proud,” Trump told soldiers during the event, per CNN.

President Trump affirmed that the Army’s 250th anniversary parade will carry on in the streets of Washington, DC, despite forecasted flash floods, gusts of wind and thunderstorms in the