Trump Paris-Bound in November to Watch a Military Parade Instead

The following article by Niels Lesniewski was posted on the Roll Call website August 17, 2018:

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend the traditional Bastille Day military parade in Paris last year. Credit: Chesnot, Getty Images

President Donald Trump plans to go to Paris in November to celebrate the Armistice Day, rather than hosting his own military parade in Washington, D.C.

Trump tweeted that he would also, “attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date.”

Any plans for a military parade in the United States have been postponed until at least 2019. Trump blamed the high cost of the previously-envisioned military parade on local officials in Washington, D.C.

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