{"id":2445589,"date":"2025-06-10T19:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trump-restoring-confederate-generals-names-to-bases-biden-re-named\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:44:29","slug":"breaking-trump-restoring-confederate-generals-names-to-bases-biden-re-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trump-restoring-confederate-generals-names-to-bases-biden-re-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Trump Restoring Confederate Generals&#8217; Names to Bases Biden Re-Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-trump-restoring-confederate-generals-names-to-bases-biden-re-named%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2445589&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a recent proclamation by President Donald Trump during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-has-never-talked-about-2024-campaign-plans-with-biden\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris Has &#039;Never Talked About&#039; 2024 Campaign Plans with ...\">2024 presidential campaign<\/a>, where he vowed to reverse certain policies from the Biden governance. Key issues include reforming immigration policies and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >addressing economic concerns<\/a>, as well as restoring the names of U.S.military bases that were renamed under Biden after Confederate generals. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Fort Bragg, Trump promised to rename several bases back to their original names, such as Fort Pickett and Fort Hood, a move that received applause from soldiers present. He justified this by emphasizing the past significance of these figures and their contributions, arguing that erasing their names from history is a disservice.Trump portrayed the reinstatement of these names as a way to preserve American history and culture, acknowledging that it may provoke criticism from liberal circles. <\/p>\n<p>The article suggests that this decision aligns with Trump&#8217;s broader campaign themes, appealing to patriotic sentiments and a desire to rectify what he sees as historical wrongs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of the many pitches that President Donald Trump made during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-opposition-brews-against-trump-leniency-toward-tiktok-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Conservative opposition brews against Trump leniency toward TikTok - Washington Examiner\">successful 2024 presidential campaign<\/a> was that he would try to undo the damage &mdash; both big and small &ndash;wrought by the administration of former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Big issues have included Trump&rsquo;s tackling of Biden&rsquo;s disastrous handling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dhs-takes-vicious-parting-shot-aclu-immigration-lawsuit-fails-spectacularly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immigration<\/a>, and arguably worse, his stewardship of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-tariffs-working-advertised-trade-deficit-plummets-record-amount-april\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller &mdash; but no less important &mdash; issues that the Trump administration is tackling include the scourge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/doj-opens-civil-rights-investigation-us-university-dei-framework\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diversity, equity, and inclusion<\/a> and the whitewashing of patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s that last issue that Trump notably broached Tuesday while speaking at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in a bit of &ldquo;breaking news,&rdquo; to use the president&rsquo;s words.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the relevant clip below:<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING); 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\t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">U.S. President Donald J. Trump announces while speaking to Soldiers at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, that the bases renamed under President Joe Biden will be renamed for Confederate Generals: Edmund Rucker, A.P. Hill, Robert E. Lee, and George Pickett. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/00YBtvhnJM\">pic.twitter.com\/00YBtvhnJM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sentdefender\/status\/1932543037537677460?\">June 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; Trump said, to a rousing ovation from the soldiers in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. George Pickett, Gen. John Bell Hood, Gen. John B. Gordon, Col. Edmund Rucker, Gen. Leonidas Polk, Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill, and Gen. Robert E. Lee were all Confederate military officials whose names had been scrubbed from various U.S. camps and bases by the Biden administration in a bid to somehow erase the Confederacy.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what? Good.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming from a Hawaii-born, non-Southern apologist (you guys lost the war, get over it), but it&rsquo;s never sat well with me that these Americans &mdash; an inarguable classification both before and after the war &mdash; had been scrubbed from history because modern history may not view them favorably.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a disservice to history and their memories (and their legacies) to wantonly discard everything they had accomplished because they were on the &ldquo;wrong&rdquo; side of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederacy &mdash; setting aside the slavery issue that most of these generals had no actual say in &mdash; was ultimately about fighting for independence, a cause that any red-blooded American should at least be able to understand, if not endorse.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We won a lot of battles out of those forts,&rdquo; Trump continued.&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s no time to change. And I&rsquo;m superstitious, you know? I like to keep it going, right?<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very superstitious &mdash; we want to keep it going. So that&rsquo;s a big story that we just announced that today to you for the first time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president joked that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-harris-campaign-manipulates-reddit-to-control-the-platform\/\" title=\"The Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit To Control The Platform\">simply couldn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t wait until Saturday to formally unveil this news.<\/p>\n<p>This move will certainly rankle the far-left fringes of the Democratic Party &mdash; which reminds me of something.<\/p>\n<p>In a delicious bit of irony, it does need to be pointed out that the rebellious attitude of the Confederacy seems to have passed on to their Democratic descendants.<\/p>\n<p>Disobeying presidential mandates and resisting federal law? Sounds like a textbook description of a Democrat in 2025, if there ever was one.<\/p>\n<p>You&rsquo;d think they&rsquo;d love Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;breaking&rdquo; announcement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>You already know they&rsquo;ll hate it &mdash; which means the president is doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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