The directive won’t rename the Defense Department, which would require congressional approval, but it will make the Department of War its secondary title.
Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday adding “Department of War” as the secondary title of the Defense Department, two White House officials told NBC News.
The order, which Trump is expected to sign in the Oval Office, won’t rename the Defense Department, but it will authorize Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use secondary titles like “secretary of war” and “Department of War” in official correspondence and public communications and during formal ceremonies, according to a White House preview of the order.
Trump will require all executive departments and agencies to “recognize and accommodate these secondary titles in internal and external communications.”
Everyone should just refer to the DoD as the Department of Epstein Files from now on. Because this is yet another flagrantly transparent attempt to distract everyone away from that issue.
I don’t much like Trump, but for once he’s right: the US Department of Defense is mostly doing war in the world, and very little defense. When was the last time the US armed forces defended the country?
I don’t think that’s why he renamed it
He’s trying to rename it for spectacle and looking tough, but it might actually make it harder for them to keep continually increasing the “war” budget.
Looked into it and it seems like they will keep the name Department of Defense, but this allows for certain Trump officials to call themselves Secretary of War and other such nonsense.
They will continue to call it the defense budget and the DOD when it’s about funding. They will call ut the Department of War in only their propaganda.
Anytime you think the bar can’t go lower, it still does.
“The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here’s Trump, limbo dancing with the devil.”
I don’t know where I read that one but I liked it.
Trump is such an unfunny bore… What a missed opportunity to rename it the Hexagon and troll the hell out of everybody.
Well at least it makes it easier to argue that the only thing America does for the world is violence
Well yeah, but if your argument is that the DoD needed a name that better describes its role, Trump should have renamed it the Department of Pork.
Because that’s mostly what it does: feed the military-industrial complex.
I mean we absolutely are waging at least 7 wars. I’m obviously against the US blowing our money on the MIC, but I’m personally a lot more perturbed by the actual violence inflicted on the world. Like they’re not just blowing the money on like giant golden statues of Trump, they’re blowing the money to then go kill more people.
But the fucked up thing is that wasn’t always true…
Like, it would be hard to argue we’re a net positive, but we did some good.
It’s like if kids used to said the poor kid smelled like poop, then one day they threw actual poop on him. It doesn’t make it better because now he really smells like shit.
It’s worse.
Not just for him, because now the whole classroom literally smells like shit.
JFC, maybe we can give this administration a secondary title…
Pedo party!
Trump will require all executive departments and agencies to “recognize and accommodate these secondary titles in internal and external communications.”
Can’t use preferred names/pronouns…
But Grand Puba of the 27th Kingdom of fluffershit can just make up any bullshit title and insist everyone else uses it?
Branding.
EPSTEIN FILES!
