I think it would feel icky. Military parades are something that weak nations do. For a strong nation to need a parade would speak of inferiority, not superiority.
To be fair he got the idea when he watched the military parade in France which is hardly a fascist country.
Same here but it’s more likely to happen on Memorial Day around here. High school bands are still in school and able to perform. Fewer people are on vacation. In the National Guard I did participate in a few. It was never the whole unit. Usually we would get about 6 guys and a truck or two. When we still had armor units we were able to take the tank out if the town requesting it was close by.
You mean the parade of drunk sailors in Manhattan?
That we tend to have at the end of victorious wars, e.g. after WW1 or Desert Storm, and it’s once and done.
All this so he can say, “look at this great military, it was never so proud and great before, believe me.”
Plus I just thought of another annoyance about this nonsense: After it gets done a couple of times, come someone decide to do the responsible thing and not have it, the RW is going to go all “OMG what a disrespect for The Troops[sup]TM[/sup]!!”
“People are saying that Obama never held a parade like this because he wasn’t proud of the military. Is that true? I don’t know, maybe. But a lot of people are talking about it and that’s very interesting. But you know what, folks? It’s okay to be proud of our military again.”
Two words:
Vichy France and rounding up Jews for the Nazis to murder comes to mind.
And then the legitimate French government rounding up Vichy French after France was liberated.
This parade nonsense reminds me of Wilhelm II. Say, he had small hands, too!
Many foreign countries have seen our military. For good and not so good.
My current city of residence has a Veteran’s Day Parade every year. It is considered the second best Veteran’s Day parade in the US. I was asked to walk in it a couple years ago and proudly did so as a Navy veteran.
Damn, you’re right. 
To me, veterans and/or parades around Veterans or Memorial Day are a different story. Seeing the folks who served and having a chance to honor them is something I wish we did more. But for groups of general active duty units, en mass so to speak, parading down a street in some sort of public/political display just has a negative feel to me. Even for the various “welcome home returning troops” things that have happened over our history.
I mean where every bar stool in Midtown is covered in seamen.
It’s got to be one of the stupidest things the Grand Cheeto has come up with. I resent my tax dollars going to such silliness.
For the record, I was on active duty for a bit over 11 years. I marched in parades in uniform, but it wasn’t a show of power or whatever other dick-waving move this will turn into. I’d be much more impressed if he’d put some muscle behind taking care of veterans in need.
Actually, he had wanted a military parade as part of his inauguration but had been talked out of it and has now revisited it after seeing it in France. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/325154-trump-team-wanted-military-vehicles-in-inaugural-parade-report
Okay, I’ll ask the obvious: You know who else had big military parades?
Let me rephrase that: the Sitter on the Gold Throne. 
Putin?
Harry Truman?
Besides every tinhorn third world dictator?
Well you beat me to it. The rise of fascism in the US has been uncanny. It’s like someone’s got the manual and they’re just marking off the little boxes in progression. It’s so perfect, it’s hard to imagine this whole circus is not just a well orchestrated play, the Hollywood monster it’s distracting us from is made that much more scary. I don’t go in for conspiracies, but I’m starting to doubt the wisdom of that policy. Trump is just the master of ceremonies to keep our attention focused on what’s happening inside the tent.
As for the OP–Military hardware parades are not a common USA thing. If someone wanted to make them a thing under calmer societal circumstances then I’d be more like, “whatever.” But in context of the USA plummeting in status abroad and critically divided at home, it is such a curious thing to make a priority that it gives me the willies.