Follow live updates as the military parade in Washington, D.C., kicks off on Trump's birthday. 'No Kings' protests by opponents are planned across the country today.

As the US Army prepares for its 250th birthday celebration with a major parade of military hardware in Washington, DC, which just happens to coincide with President Donald’s Trumps birthday, former officials are growing increasingly concerned about how the military is being pulled into the political arena by the Trump administration,

Iowa, discusses the foreign policy effects of the Israel-Iran strikes and the upcoming DC military parade on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’

President Donald Trump has already eroded many of the U.S.’s democratic safeguards and traditions in the initial months of his second term.

The parade starts at 6:30 p.m. ET and stretches for about eight blocks along Constitution Avenue, south of the White House.

U.S. Army recruitment is experiencing a turnaround, with fiscal year 2025 recruiting goals being reached four months ahead of schedule, the military branch said.

There’s growing concern of the politicization of the military as the White House says they could deploy the National Guard to more U.S. cities. Nancy Youssef, Retired LT Col. Rob D'Amico and Retired Lieutenant General Stephen Twitty join The Weekend to discuss.

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.