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.”
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.