Washington, DC, and Annapolis, MD. – There are incidents that become a rurchch Testing that brings the US political and cultural division into bold relief. Saturday’s military parade – which celebrated the 250th anniversary of the US Army and also fell on President Trump’s birthday – that was the kind of moment.

As the Trump administration prepared for a parade filled with tanks and carriers of tanks and armored personnel, rolling through the country’s capital, people across the country opposed the incident by an autocrat as politicization of the armed forces.

Protests were called no kings.

A 33-mile journey from a protest in Annapolis was like a visit between two different countries up to the Parade Grandstand in front of the White House.

In the middle of the crowd in Annapolis, the colonial, the red-brick gathered in front of the Maryland State House. Those who came were largely white, and they indicated while reading: “Opposing the crown since 1776,” and “I am an experienced, not a sucking or loser,” a reference Comments responsible for Trump Dislike American warfasts, which Trump has called “total lies”.

John Wales, a retired economist statisticalist, with the federal government, called the Multary Parade as derogatory. “We are not in Russia or North Korea … or in China,” he said. “This is the thing they do. We do not do this.”

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76 -year -old retired economist statisticalist John Wales, along with the federal government, said he supported the US Army, but could not parade.

,this is outrageous. We are not in Russia or North Korea… or in China. They do the same thing. It is also a lot of money and cost of people’s resources, “Wales said about the price tag for the DC parade and surrounding events, estimating $ 25 million to $ 45 million.

In the Annapolis, the speakers included the Representative of the Labor Union, the leader of an immigrant advocacy group and a George Washington Reanector, who wore a white wig and a blue vasocot. 75 -year -old retired nurse Randy Goldberg played the first President of America and gave Washington when he gave Washington, when he gave Renounced his military command There in 1783.

Goldberg said, “I have retired from a great theater of a affectionate farewell to this August body and under whose orders I have acted for so long, I offer my commission and leave all the employment of public life.”

Annapolis, the focal point of no Kings in MD, was a George Washington Renctor named Randy Goldberg, who gave to Washington, when he abandoned his command in 1783. The protesters left Milter Power with a voluntary decision of Washington, which they saw as an autocratic-style military parade.

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The protesters were talking that Washington voluntarily left military power, while he says that Trump was trying to earn more by organizing a parade with countless tons of military hardware in the National Mall.

Trump on Saturday rejected such criticism.

“Every other country celebrated its victory,” Trump told the crowd in DC “it’s about the time that America also did.”

In fact, it was not a victory celebration, but a birthday party for the army. Last time when America held a similar parade First Gulf War, in 1991,

Trump has attacked patriotism of his Critics And Journalists He does not like to say, “They hate our country.” Fear of such attack, speakers in Annapolis said that protest is a work of patriotism, especially when the target is a president who says that America’s check and balance system has been trampled.

,We should own the flag. Donna Edwards, president of Maryland and DC AFL-CIO, said that Donna Edwards said, “We cannot tell us patriots who addressed the crowd of anapolis wearing an American flag dress.” Nobody should say this because we are here, we hate America. We are fighting for America.,

About 45 minutes in the west, many people participating in the army celebration also wore flag T-shirts, hats and shorts. The crowd was diverse and included military families, whose members came to the US from all over the world including Ecuador, Al Salvador and Vietnam.

Juliana Balog (left) and Kim Guayen are President Trump Superfan, who traveled from Arkansas and California respectively, to attend the military parade. Guyen says that his father served with the US Army in South Vietnam and she came to America in 1991.

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In the country’s capital, this program looked like a cross between a military festival and an army recruitment video. People climbed the grass in the shadow of the Washington Memorial. Among the strains of van Halan over loudspeakers, tank drivers pumped their fist and revived their engine as they fired the crowd crowd to the crowd under the Constitution Avenue. Along with the way, the announcer thanked various corporate sponsors, including Lockheed Martin and Palantir, which is a data-marining firm $ 30 million contract To help immigration and customs and enforcement track migrants in the US

The staging was designed to enhance the muscular image, Trump likes to project. A pair of tanks were sitting in front of grandeur, from which the President saw. After his speech, Trump was traditionally presented with a folded American flag – a gift that is commonly reserved for family members of the fallen soldiers.

Some people participating in the incident – some of whom said they did not vote for Trump – rejected the criticism that the parade contained powerful overtones.

,I think he has found a complete cloud on his head that he is a dictator of Trump when he is acting fully. [within] The law, “19 -year -old Dennis Konali, said, who wore a baggy American flag pants and flew from Noxville, Tenne for the event.

Noxville, 19 -year -old Dennis Konli of Tenne flew for the first time in his life for Washington, DC to watch the parade. Conlie wants to join Marine and said that the parade and the president’s birthday combination was very good.

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The President also raised the issue in front of the parade mentioned as the king. “I don’t feel like a king,” Trump said before the parade. “I have to go through hell to approve things.”

His administration works have been vested in hundreds of cases – and the courts have Often blocked them By being implemented.

Connelly says that he expects to be admitted to Marine and serve in counter -protests. While no Kings protesters criticized Trump for criticizing Trump, Kanli saw it as a good thing.

“He is powerful, and he is like those high school bulls. … and I think it’s amazing,” Conline said. “We must have a powerful president who is ready to pursue some limits.”

Although Conli is a fan of Trump, he has doubts about some of the President’s policies. He says that by allowing ice agents to wear masks, people get an opportunity to replicate them and commit crimes. He also says that he does not think that Trump has a complete understanding of the tariff.

“I think he is assuming that these companies are ready to pay them and are not going to manipulate the public … and add it to it. [the] The consumer value, “the Conline said, who took his first airplane flight to come here.

The parade attracted several trump voters, who gave a warm round of applause when the President was introduced. A smattering sport mang gear. But most people with whom NPR said that they were there to celebrate the army and watch the tank.

Well before the end of the parade, thousands of people started coming out. When they exited the Constitution Avenue, they did not meet the Kings protesters.

“Trump is a tyrannical,” read a sign. The parade-goer with whom an NPR reporter was running, made his way behind the protesters and moved towards the metro trains.

The US Split-Screen Day was finally merged into a collective image of a divided people from the White House, many unable to talk to each other.