The Pentagon might have vetoed President Donald Trump’s idea of parading U.S. military vehicles across the streets of Washington during his inauguration festivities. But now he’s the commander in chief and talking about holding such a show of military might on July 4.

Trump floated the idea to reporters during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, whom he joined in Paris in July for that country’s Bastille Day festivities. Trump was the VIP guest on the French president’s viewing stand for a parade of French military troops and equipment.

So impressed was Trump with the Bastille Day spectacle that he revealed Monday he has asked his chief of staff, retired Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, to look into planning a Bastille Day-like parade of U.S. military might on July 4.

“It was one of the greatest parades I have ever seen. It was two hours on the button and was military might,” Trump said, according to a pool report. “It was a tremendous thing for France and for the people of France. People don’t know what great warriors they are in France.”

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