- Trump calls the Department of Defense’s name ‘Wokey’.
- Says the department’s new name is ‘much more appropriate’.
- New name remains secondary title until Congressnik.
Washington: US President Donald Trump has signed an order to bring back the old war department name to the Pentagon and says it better reflects strength and victory.
Flanked by Pentagon chief Pete Hegeth at a signing ceremony in the White House called the Republican President the change a powerful symbol and replaced the Department of Defense title that has been in use for more than 70 years.
He said the current name was for “wokey.”
“I think it sends a message of victory,” Trump told journalists in the Oval Office on Rebrand. “It’s a much more appropriate name in the light of where the world is right now.”
The name goes back to the war department, the title used for more than 150 years from 1789, just after independence from Britain, until 1947, shortly after World War II.
Trump cannot formally change the Pentagon’s name without congressional approval-but 79-year-old authorizes the use of the new label as a “secondary title.”
Previous Fox News Host Hegeth quickly embraced the change and sent a video of a new name tag reading “War Secretary” attached to his door at the Pentagon.
The combat veteran, who was appointed by Trump to lead a greater revision of the scattered department, said the change was “not just about renaming, it’s all about recovering Warriot.”
“Maximum mortality, not lukewarm legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We will raise fighters, not just defenders,” said Hegeth.
Trump, meanwhile, seemed to blame America’s military setback since his victories in the first and World War II on the 1949 decision to call it the Department of Defense.
“We could have won every war, but we really chose to be very politically correct or awake,” said Trump, who signed the 200. Performing order for his second period.
For ‘defensive’
Rebrand is part of Trump’s wider push for project strength in the inland abroad during its second period during the “Make America Great Again” policy.
He has ordered an American military structure in the Caribbean to address what he calls drug cartels led by Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro. US forces killed 11 people earlier this week in a strike over what Washington said was a drug carrier.
Trump also ordered a US military strike in Iranian nuclear locations in June.
Domestic he has deployed the US National Guard in Washington and Los Angeles in recent months and described it as a crime crime and illegal immigration.
Trump’s “Department of War” movement could also sit uneasy with his campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for what he claims is his role in ending more conflicts – he has alternately said six and seven.
Democrats have dismissed the move as an expensive political stunt of the billionaire.
The White House has not yet said how much a rebrand would cost, although US media expects a price of billions of dollars to revise hundreds of agencies, emblems, email addresses and uniforms.
A Pentagon -Officer said to AFP, “The cost estimate will swing when we perform President Trump’s Directive to establish the Department of War’s name. We will have a clearer estimate to report at a later date.”
Trump had pulled the message for weeks and complained that the Defense Department was “defensive” and made America seem weak.
Hegeth has also attacked past administrations for policies that he and Trump mocked as “woke up.”
Remarkably, he has tried to expel transking troops from the military and to restore the original names of bases when they honor the Confederate soldiers after being renamed under President Joe Bid.
The war department was established in August 1789 to oversee the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps, according to an official web site for Pentagon History. Navy and Marines split a decade later.
