Overview

• About 6,600 soldiers, 150 armored vehicles, helicopters and aircraft paraded through Washington to mark the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and the president’s birthday
• Organizers expected up to 200,000 spectators and spent millions reinforcing city streets and suspending flights around the National Mall
• Roughly 2,000 “No Kings Day” demonstrations took place in major cities to denounce Trump’s immigration policies and domestic troop deployments
• Protests in Minnesota were called off after a shooting in Minneapolis killed state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband
• President Trump warned of a forceful response to demonstrators, drawing criticism from the ACLU and other civil liberties advocates