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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

During a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., Donald Trump said that he would restore the names of all US Army bases that were named for treasonous Confederate generals but were ordered changed by Congress in the waning days of his first term. His move skirts the law mandating the removal of Confederate symbols from the military through the same maneuver used to restore the name of Fort Bragg, which was briefly renamed Fort Liberty. The US Army stated it would "take immediate action" to restore the old names, but the base names would instead honor other American soldiers with similar names and initials. For example, Fort Eisenhower in Georgia, honoring the late president, would revert to the name Fort Gordon, the Confederate slave owner and suspected KKK member. This time around, however, the US Army said the base would instead honor MSG Gary Gordon, who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

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The idiocy and gall of making this appalling announcement in front of the US Army before it celebrates its 250th birthday is inter-galactic. The Confederates killed more US Army Soldiers (+360,000) during the Civil War than the Kaiser's German Army, the North Korean Army, and the North Vietnamese Army with their Viet Cong guerillas combined. Below, fallen Soldiers of the US Army at Gettysburg, PA.
https://www.battlefields.org/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_75/public/thumbnails/image/Gettysburg_LOC00168u_HarvestOfDeath_HRsmaller.jpg.webp?itok=HmIL67Xu

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"During a speech at Fort Bragg, NC, Dotard Trumpf said that he would restore the names of all US Army bases that were named for treasonous Confederate generals but were ordered changed by Congress in the waning days of his first Reign of Terror."

So Comgress is just going to let him ignore the law to please this MAGAracist supporters. Yhis whole immigration problem is just his attempt to pander to his racist supporters. There was no crisis; most of the people ICE is deporting were just law abiding people struggling to earn a living and raise their children.

#1 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-11 08:14 AM | Reply

This is all in Project 2025 that "he knew nothing about".

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-11 08:15 AM | Reply

This is all in Project 2025 that "he knew nothing about".

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-11 08:15 AM | Reply

Coming soon:
Fort John Chivington
Fort Benedict Arnold
Fort Aldrich Ames
Fort William Calley

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-11 08:18 AM | Reply

This ---- makes me want to Spew!

What a Lewser.

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-06-11 08:30 AM | Reply

Racists are going to be racists.

#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-11 10:31 AM | Reply

Has DOGE approved this waste of money?

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-11 10:32 AM | Reply

They're using a wink-wink work around, finding obscure people with the same name:

Fort Liberty again became Fort Bragg, not in honor of the Confederate general but in memory of Pvt. Roland L. Bragg, a previously obscure infantryman who had served at Fort Bragg and fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.

Fort Moore - renamed in 2023 for Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and his wife, Julia - would again be called Fort Benning. Instead of honoring Henry L. Benning, a Confederate and white supremacist, the base would be named for Cpl. Fred G. Benning, who served during World War I.

Fort Walker, named for the Civil War surgeon, would be renamed again to Fort A.P. Hill. That base was originally named to honor Ambrose Powell Hill, a Confederate officer who was killed late in the war. The Army said on Tuesday that the base would be renamed "Fort Anderson-Pinn-Hill" to honor Lt. Col. Edward Hill, First Sgt. Robert A. Pinn and Pvt. Bruce Anderson who fought for the United States during the Civil War.

#8 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2025-06-11 10:41 AM | Reply

"Fort Liberty again became Fort Bragg, not in honor of the Confederate general but in memory of Pvt. Roland L. Bragg, a previously obscure infantryman who had served at Fort Bragg and fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II."

That's the fake story they made up to hide behind because the truth is too distasteful to most Americans. You can buy it Schiff but most of us just aren't that stupid! If you are well that's up to you.

#9 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-11 11:17 AM | Reply

Fort Abu Ghraib
Fort Lester Maddox
Fort Terry Gene Bollea
Fort Stepin Fetchit

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-11 11:42 AM | Reply

#10: Hi Doc: The Dotard shouldn't neglect our sister services:

Marine Corps Recruit Depot Brutus Island
Delilah Naval Air Station
Cassius Space Base
MacBeth Air Base
USCG Station Lilith

Diego Garcia will be renamed Iago Garcia.

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-11 12:28 PM | Reply

What about those soldiers who lost their lives suppressing an armed rebellion by foreign flag-waving insurrectionists hellbent on overthrowing the government during the fight at the Alamo?

#12 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-11 12:41 PM | Reply

Can Fort McVeigh be far behind?

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-11 01:50 PM | Reply

Fort Santa Anna, TX, named after the man credited with inventing Chiclets, who also spent time as an exile in Staten Island, NY, has a nice ring to it.

And I can't believe I missed Fort McVeigh. Why not? In the caldron of white supremacist bile the Dotard has concocted this makes perfect sense because McVeigh was unbelievably considered a patriot to many Americans. Oy gevalt.

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-11 02:05 PM | Reply

That's the fake story they made up to hide behind because the truth is too distasteful to most Americans. You can buy it Schiff but most of us just aren't that stupid! If you are well that's up to you.

#9 Posted by danni

Danni, you misinterpreted my post.
I was posting the ridiculous rationalizations being offered up by the administration.
They are saying 'we're returning the name to Fort Bragg, but it's not that Confederate general we're honoring, it's an unknown private Bragg that we just had a 20 year old intern find (anyone named Bragg... just pick one!)'

That's their work-around for a decision by congress in the Biden administration to remove these names referencing Confederate generals.

They're not even trying to be serious. It's just a troll.

#15 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2025-06-11 02:09 PM | Reply

Because erasing history does not change the past.

#16 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-06-11 02:47 PM | Reply

That's rich coming from a MAGAT scumbag like you.

#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-11 07:10 PM | Reply

Because erasing history does not change the past.
#16

You can read all about the U.S. Civil War. Watch the Ken Burns documentary. Play dress up and reenact battles. Not erased at all.

#18 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2025-06-12 09:34 AM | Reply

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