(The Post Millennial)—Speaking at a ceremony marking the US Army’s 250th anniversary, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his administration will resore the original names of seven military bases that had previously honored Confederate leaders.
“For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort AP Hill and Fort Robert E Lee,” Trump said during remarks delivered at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
President Trump has announced that the U.S. military will be restoring the names of forts such as Fort Hood, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee.
Good! Those names are the ones they bore when they trained the American troops who fought and won two world wars. They should be…
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The bases were renamed under the Biden administration in 2023, following a recommendation from a naming commission. Fort Bragg, for example—one of the most prominent installations in the country—was renamed Fort Liberty at the time.
“We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It’s no time to change. And I’m superstitious, you know, I like to keep it going, right? I’m very superstitious,” Trump said. “We want to keep it going. So that’s a big story.”
In February, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth changed the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg.
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