I'M 100 PERCENT WITH TRUMP ON THE RENAMING

Trump will rename SEVEN military bases for Confederate soldiers after Biden-era renaming

 

By Nikki Schwab 

Daily Mail

Jun 10, 2025

 

 

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was reinstating the names of seven military bases that had been named after Confederates, including their leader, Gen. Robert E. Lee

 

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was reinstating the names of seven military bases that had been named after Confederates, including their leader, Gen. Robert E. Lee. 

Trump made the announcement during his trip to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, which had briefly taken on the name 'Fort Liberty.' 

In February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that it would be riverted to Fort Bragg, but would be named after a World War II hero, not the problematic Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. 

'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,' Trump told the crowd Tuesday. 

'We won a lot of battles out of those forts,' he continued. 'And I'm superstitious, I like to keep it going right? I'm very superstitious, we want to keep it going, so that's a big story, I just announced it today to you for the first time.'

Trump said he was pressured to wait and make the announcement during Saturday's parade marking his birthday and celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Army. 

'I can't wait!' he said at Fort Bragg. 'I've got to talk to my friends here today.' 

The president's move makes good on a campaign promise he made, not in 2024, but in 2020. 

 

A sign for Fort Lee - named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee - photographed in 2001. Fort Lee was renamed Fort Gregg-Adams. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said it would revert back to Fort Lee  

 

In the aftermath of George Floyd's death of Memorial Day weekend of 2020 and the 'Black Lives Matter' protests that sprung up from the incident, there were renewed calls to remove Confederate statues and names from public spaces. 

Trump resisted those calls - instead backing the 'Blue Lives Matter' movement, a counter-protest on the American right.  

Still Congress decided to act and the name change for military bases was included in a large defense package that earned bipartisan support. 

Even after he lost the election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, he vetoed the military spending bill in December 2020, which contained language to rename 10 bases originally named for Confederates. 

Congress - in another bipartisan vote - overrode Trump's veto.  

It's unclear why the president didn't mention Forts Beauregard and Benning in his announcement Tuesday, as they were both included in the defense spending bill. 

The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail's request for comment. 

The process to rename the bases wrapped up in January 2023, during Biden's presidency - so Trump blamed his predecessor, despite members of his own party supporting the changes.

A number of bases were renamed from Confederates to women and black Americans. 

'The one and only Fort Bragg, the one and only Fort Bragg,' Trump said onstage Tuesday.  'But remember it was only that little brief moment that it wasn't called Fort Bragg. It was by the Biden administration.' 

'And we got it changed,' he touted. 

Fort Bragg, in the February change, was renamed after Roland L. Bragg, who the Pentagon described as a World War II fighter 'who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bulge.'

The original 'Bragg' was Braxton Bragg, who was a slaveowner. 

He was also so inept that he helped the Confederacy lose the Civil War to U.S. forces.