The parade — estimated to cost nearly $40 million, USA TODAY reported — will be the first of its kind since a 1991 parade to mark the end of the first Gulf War.

President Trump presided over the largest U.S. military parade in decades along with a sparse, but subdued and celebratory crowd in Washington.

Though estimating crowd size is tricky and subject to bias, it seems clear that the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests drew millions of attendees in the U.S. while the Army/Trump parade enticed thousands.