At least, that’s what a spokesperson for the Washington, DC, mayor’s office told Washingtonian magazine.
In an interview with Washington’s Channel 9 WUSA news, Bowser said she thinks “most people are concerned with the obstacle” an M1 Abrams tank rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue would create, and “what it would suggest about our country and the direction our country is moving in.”
Bowser also said she hasn’t gotten any official notice on the potential parade.
“I don’t know how they’re going to promote it or when they’re going to suggest it — but we will always be concerned with (the parade’s) impact on the city, the impact on safety, pulling personnel, and our roadways, and the attention it would attract,” Bowser told Channel 9.
Pentagon spokesman Charlie Summers said Tuesday that Trump asked for the military parade, adding that the planning process was in its “infancy.”
Trump was present at last year’s Bastille Day celebration with French President Emmanuel Macron, and later referred to it as “one of the greatest parades” he had ever seen.
However, there has been significant backlash to the idea since the proposal surfaced, with critics comparing it to the likes of oppressive regimes.
“We have a Napoleon in the making here,” Rep. Jackie Speier, D-California, said Tuesday on CNN.
CNN’s Barbara Starr and Maegan Vazquez contributed to this report.
