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This blog has now closed. You can read our full report on the No Kings" demonstrations here and our report on Trump's military parade here.

It will be a parade fit for a king - which is precisely why critics worry what message it will send the rest of the world about the future of democracy in America.

On Saturday, there will be tanks on the streets of the nation's capital as Washington hosts a celebration of the US army's 250th anniversary, which happens to coincide with Donald Trump's 79th birthday.

North Korea: military parades. China: military parades. Russia: military parades.

These aren't parades to celebrate a victory and it's certainly not to celebrate the United States army's birthday. This is a parade to aggrandise Donald Trump's ego. No one who knows either Trump or his pattern of behavior would think for a minute this is anything else.