{"id":2479096,"date":"2025-08-26T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-name-change-for-department-of-defense-too-defensive\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:07:31","slug":"trump-announces-name-change-for-department-of-defense-too-defensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-name-change-for-department-of-defense-too-defensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Announces Name Change for Department of Defense: &#8216;Too Defensive&#8217;"},"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%2Ftrump-announces-name-change-for-department-of-defense-too-defensive%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=2479096&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>Former President Donald Trump announced plans to rename the U.S. Department of Defense back to its original name, the Department of War. He expressed that the current name, &#8220;Department of Defense,&#8221; sounds too passive and lacks the strong, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >victorious connotation<\/a> that the name Department of War carried, referencing America&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-propaganda-claims-no-fighting-in-kyiv-major-ukrainian-cities\/\" title=\"Russian Propaganda Claims No Fighting in Kyiv, Major Ukrainian Cities\">military successes<\/a> in World War I and World War II under that title. Trump stated that the change could happen soon,possibly within weeks,and indicated that congress would likely support the move if approval is needed. He also praised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8217;s leadership within what he called the Department of War and emphasized a desire for a name that reflects both defensive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-says-trumps-messaging-sparked-challenges-for-gop-support-of-ukraine\/\" title=\"McConnell: ...&#039;s messaging caused GOP&#039;s Ukraine support challenges.\">offensive military capabilities<\/a>. The Department of war was originally established in 1789, and after World War II, it was renamed to the Department of Defense in 1949 under president Harry Truman.  <\/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><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump indicated on Monday that he could soon move to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why are we defense?&rdquo; Trump said in a video <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1960005734365823293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted to X<\/a>, later adding, &ldquo;I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t want to be defense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So it used to be called the Department of War,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;And, it had a stronger sound. And as you know, we won World War I. We won World War II. We won everything.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now we have a Department of Defense. We&rsquo;re defenders,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/flag-burner-arrested-outside-white-house-hours-trump-signs-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cabinet<\/a> officials behind him as he spoke to the media, Trump said, &ldquo;If you people want to, standing behind me, if you take a little vote, if you want to change it back to what it was when we used to win wars all the time, that&rsquo;s OK with me. &hellip; Department of War, it just sounded better.&rdquo;<\/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);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>In speaking of the department&rsquo;s current name, Trump said, &ldquo;It just sounded bad.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: President Trump says the Department of Defense should be called the Department of War <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ivjbkPEwgW\">pic.twitter.com\/ivjbkPEwgW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1960005734365823293?\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/1960072433760706827\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another video<\/a> posted to X, Trump was asked about the role of Congress, which would have to approve the name change.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re just going to do it. I&rsquo;m sure Congress will go along if we need that. I don&rsquo;t think we even need that. But, if we need that, I&rsquo;m sure Congress will go along,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, that was the name when we won World War I. We won World War II. We won everything. And, just to me, seems like just a much more appropriate,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Q: &ldquo;On the Department of War, how do you plan to do that? It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President Trump: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re just going to do it. I&rsquo;m sure Congress will go along if we need that&hellip;Defense is too defensive. We want to be defensive, but we&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tfj3jhGVhY\">pic.twitter.com\/tfj3jhGVhY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1960072433760706827?\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The other is, defense is too defensive. And we want to be defensive, but we want to be offensive, too, if we have to be. So it just sounded to me like a better name.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pete-hegseth-triggers-leftist-meltdown-one-sentence-message-christ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> &ldquo;has been incredible with the, as I call it, the Department of War,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/renamed-department-defense-coming-soon-trump-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know we call it the Department of Defense, but between us, I think we&rsquo;re going to change the name. You want to know the truth? I think we&rsquo;re going to have some information on that, maybe soon,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>After noting victories when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-military-kills-senior-isis-leader-two-sons-early-morning-raid-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defense Department<\/a> was the War Department, Trump said, &ldquo;And to me that&rsquo;s really what it is. Defense is a part of that. But I have a feeling we&rsquo;re going to be changing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m talking to the people. Everybody likes that. We had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War. Then we changed it to Department of Defense,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump indicated the change could take place within the next week or two.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of War was created in 1789. After World War II, a reorganization of America&rsquo;s military structure took place under President Harry Truman. 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In a video shared on X, he questioned, &#8220;Why are we defense?&#8221; and added, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be defense.&#8221; He noted that it was previously called the Department of War, which had a stronger connotation. Trump referenced past military victories in World War I and World War II under that name. Speaking to Cabinet members present during his remarks, he said if they wanted to vote on changing the name back to what it was when America frequently won wars, he would support it. He expressed that &#8220;Department of War&#8221; simply sounded better than the current title.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Congress&#8217;s role in approving such a change, Trump responded confidently that they would likely agree if needed but implied it might not even require their approval. He emphasized wanting a name reflecting both defensive and offensive capabilities rather than just defense alone.<\/p>\n<p>Trump praised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8217;s work with what he referred to as &#8220;the Department of War&#8221; and hinted that an official announcement about renaming could come soon-possibly within one or two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the Department of War was established in 1789 but was reorganized into the Department of Defense in 1949 following World War II under President Harry Truman&#8217;s administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2479097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Trump-and-Hegseth.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[51841,48081,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2479096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-department-of-defense","tag-name-change","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Trump-and-Hegseth.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479100,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479096\/revisions\/2479100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}