President Donald Trump announced he will restore the names of military bases that were given "woke" names as the U.S. military re-examined "its history with race" during the Biden administration.
Trump made the announcement in front of troops at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina, home of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, as well as to the 82nd Airborne Division and XVIII Airborne Corps.
"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 A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee," Trump said Tuesday.
He continued, "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, we want to keep it going. So that's a big story. We just announced that today to you for the first time. They said, 'Why don't you wait til Saturday?' I said, 'I can't wait. I gotta talk to my friends today. This is a record crowd. You know you've never had a crowd this big. That's an honor. You think this crowd would have showed up for Biden? I don't think so."
In March, The New York Times reported that Fort Liberty was renamed Fort Bragg, originally named after "Braxton Bragg, an incompetent Confederate general who owned enslaved people."
"President Trump campaigned on a promise to restore the old name, and his pledge was brought to fruition... but with a twist that seemed both a rewriting of history and an internet troll: Fort Liberty again became Fort Bragg, not in honor of the Confederate general but in memory of Pvt. Roland L. Bragg, a previously obscure infantryman who had served at Fort Bragg and fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II," the Times reported.