Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War (Sen. Mark Kelly, veteran and astronaut)
The demented senile idiot in the White House says we won every war. That is not true. After WWII, which we would have never won without the Canadians, the British, the Australians, the French, the Russians, and millions of African and Asian fighters from the former colonies, we lost every "real" war. Think Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan.... We lost all of them, except the 1991 walk-in-the-park first Gulf War in Kuwait (which we won because the Bushes wanted to protect their investments in Kuwaiti oil).
The draft dodger avoided the Vietnam War. His wealthy father bribed some doctor - FIVE TIMES - to say he has "bone spurs" because he couldn't see his fat spoiled kid stained with the blood of other soldiers whom he insults as "losers" and "suckers". The aristocratic Trump family looked condescendingly on the Africans, Hispanics, Asians, and other minorities who make up the bulk of America's fighting forces. Wealthy white people from the upper class do not waste their lives serving their country. They serve their country by stealing, cheating, and concocting illegal schemes to avoid paying taxes and the salaries of the fighting men and women.
And now the "stable" genius - I think the "stable" here refers to the "animal house" - wants to pretend to love war by changing the name of the Department of Defense to Department of war. He promised his MAGA morons that he would not drag the US into "other people's wars". Another broken promise.
And, after talking to Putin in Alaska and encouraging him to continue tormenting Ukraine, the draft dodging coward wants to have a new installment in America's series of failed wars: He has discovered - maybe Putin recommended it to him because he's too stupid to think on his own - that Venezuela is his own backyard and should torment it by waging war on it. Granted that Maduro is no saint, but neither is Donald Dumb who has done everything since becoming president to degrade the US and turn it into another Venezula and himself into a Dick-traitor who thrives on insults, violence, racism and authoritarian rule.
When you put power in the hands of fools, expect disaster. "Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. — George Bernard Shaw.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a fool in the White House, and the United States of America has turned into a banana republic.
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Trump Dismisses Generations of Military Heroes as ‘Woke’
Sarah Ewall-Wice
Sat, September 6, 2025
President Donald Trump managed to dismiss generations of U.S. military heroes on Friday during his announcement that he was changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
“We won the First World War. We won the Second World War. We won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to go woke, and we changed the name to Department of Defense,” Trump complained on Friday.
While the name change had been long anticipated due to the president regularly bringing it up in public, he made it official during an Oval Office order signing session on Friday afternoon.
President Donald Trump signed executive orders in the Oval Office on September 05, 2025 including one to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War. / Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
The Department of Defense has had the name since 1949. It was changed by an act of Congress following World War II, but the president has insisted he did not need Congress to act to change it back.
The president praised the U.S. military equipment as the best in the world and touted the greatest soldiers in the world, but he continued to disparage those who fought for the U.S. in multiple wars since WWII.
“We should have won every war,” Trump said. “We could have won every war. But we, we really chose to be very politically correct or wokey.”
The president has never served in the U.S. military and received five deferments throughout the Vietnam War.
Trump did not name the wars the U.S. has participated in but not “won” during his Oval Office remarks, but he did elude to them.
“We just fight forever,” Trump said. “We wouldn’t lose really. We just fight, sort of tie. We never wanted to win wars that every one of them we would have won easily with just a couple of little changes or just a couple of little edicts.”
President Donald Trump said the U.S. had not been fighting to win wars since WWII and claimed it could have easily won them with a few changes on Friday during an appearance in the Oval Office. / Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
The president suggested that going back to the Department of War was a “much more appropriate name, especially in light of where the world is right now.”
During his announcement, the president was joined by Defense Secretary turned “War Secretary” Pete Hegseth, who lavished praise on his boss.
“This name change is not just about renaming. It’s about restoring,” said the former Fox News host. “Words matter. It’s restoring, as you’ve gotten us to Mr. President, restoring the warrior ethos, restoring victory and clarity as an end state, restoring intentionality to the use of force.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lavished praise on President Donald Trump for an order to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine looked on at the White House on September 05, 2025. / Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Hegseth said the department would “go on offense, not just on defense” and claimed they were going to “raise up warriors, not just defenders.”
Later, while answering questions from reporters, the president repeated his claim that the U.S. could have won every war but “never fought to win.”
“We didn’t lose anything, but we didn’t fight to win,” he repeated.
The president dismissed the suggestion that rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War did not square with his effort to brand himself the “President of Peace.”
The president instead repeated his claims that, since returning to office, he has settled multiple wars that “could not be settled.”
The president rejected the idea that it would take an act of Congress to officially change the name of the Defense Department. He said he did not know if they would codify his order.
Trump also brushed off the cost of the rebranding, which could be in the billions, thus clashing with the Pentagon’s efforts to root out “waste, fraud and abuse.”
“We know how to rebrand without having to go crazy,” Trump said. “We’re going to start changing the stationery as it comes due and lots of things like that.”
The “War” effort has been met with mixed reactions. GOP Senator Mike Lee introduced legislation in Congress this week to rename the Defense Department.
Trump, pictured in Trump Tower in Manhattan. / Spencer Platt / Getty Images
However, Senator Mark Kelly, a retired astronaut and combat veteran, torched Trump for the name change effort.
“Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War,” he wrote in a blistering reference to the president.
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