People claim army gave a big ‘f**k you’ to Trump after spotting detail in military parade

A second hit out: “Why do they look so relaxed? Is that standard for a military parade?”

“I think it’s code for ‘We hate this mother f**king president’,” declared a third, while a fourth speculated: “Our troops are highly skilled, trained, and prepared. There seems to be no other explanation than sending a message to Trump.”

A fifth wrote: “They looked like they didn’t even want to be there.”

“Good for them!” praised a sixth, as another said: “The formation was a mess. The energy? Dead. The message?

“Clear as day: They’re not marching for Trump. They’re enduring him. This wasn’t patriotism. It was protest in uniform.”

In a statement, the White House claimed that ‘over 250,000 patriots showed up to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army’. At the same time, The Independent suggests that according to outside estimates, empty bleachers and gaps in the audience indicated that far fewer had attended than expected.

In his speech, Trump thanked the armed forces due to their service and called the US the ‘hottest country in the world right now’.

Trump received military draft deferments five times, once for bad feet and four times for college, and by the age of 22, he had already avoided the military draft four times in order to complete his college education at the University of Pennsylvania.

In the spring of 1968, the year he was set to graduate, he received a diagnosis that landed him a fifth draft deferment that would keep him out of the Vietnam War, which saw more than 58,000 US fatalities.

Trump was diagnosed with bone spurs on his feet, which the NHS describes as ‘bony lumps that grow on the bones’ – making him seemingly unfit for service.