{"id":8049,"date":"2025-09-06T13:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2025-09-06T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:13:16","slug":"trump-warned-pentagon-rebrand-will-make-us-a-laughing-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=8049","title":{"rendered":"Trump warned Pentagon rebrand will make US a laughing stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"220\">Donald Trump is back with another executive order\u2014this time aiming to rename the Pentagon\u2019s Department of Defense to the <strong data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"219\">Department of War<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"222\" data-end=\"483\">The move, not seen since 1947, is meant to project strength. Documents seen by the BBC say Trump believes \u201cDefense\u201d sounds passive, while \u201cWar\u201d sends a stronger message. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly on board, tasked with making the change stick.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"629\">Hegseth told Fox News, \u201cWe won WWI and WWII with a War Department. We\u2019re not just defense\u2014we\u2019re offense,\u201d pushing a return to a \u201cwarrior ethos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"631\" data-end=\"870\">Online, reactions are scathing. Critics call it unnecessary, embarrassing, and expensive. One user wrote, \u201cThis makes us a laughing stock.\u201d Others compare it to Trump\u2019s earlier failed rebrand of the Gulf of Mexico to the \u201cGulf of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"1033\">Historically, the U.S. had a Department of War until it was renamed post-WWII. Trump argues the old name better reflects America\u2019s history of military victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is back with another executive order\u2014this time aiming to rename the Pentagon\u2019s Department of Defense to the Department of War. The move, not seen since 1947, is meant to project strength. Documents seen by the BBC say Trump believes \u201cDefense\u201d sounds passive, while \u201cWar\u201d sends a stronger message. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=8049\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trump warned Pentagon rebrand will make US a laughing stock&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8051,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}