Leclerc tanks drive down the Champs-Élysées avenue during the Bastille Day parade in Paris, 14 July, 2025 9 dead in ...

The Bastille Day parade in 2017 on the Champs-Élysées in Paris inspired Donald Trump to plan a military parade in Washington ...

France celebrates Bastille Day on Monday with parades, fireworks, and festivities nationwide. The holiday marks the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, a pivotal moment in the French Revolution.

France celebrated its biggest holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the ...

Trump wanted to hold the parade during his first term, but it was scrapped because it was deemed too expensive. He was inspired after attending the annual Bastille Day parade in France in 2017.

After witnessing France’s Bastille Day parade in 2017, he returned to Washington eager to stage something similar at home—with tanks, fighter jets, and troops rolling past the White House.

France's Bastille Day inspired Trump in 2017 Trump attended the annual Bastille Day celebrations in France in 2017, which apparently prompted his quest for a military parade in the first place.

France's Bastille Day inspired Trump in 2017 Trump attended the annual Bastille Day celebrations in France in 2017, which apparently prompted his quest for a military parade in the first place. The ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday Sunday — the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s grandiose military parade for Bastille Day.