US EditionTrump to Restore Names of Confederate Generals, Including Robert E. Lee, to Army Bases
- President Donald Trump announced on June 10, 2025, plans to restore the original names of seven U.S. Army bases renamed under the Biden administration.
- This announcement reverses a 2021 law requiring removal of Confederate commemorations from military assets, which had prompted a naming commission to rename the bases.
- The restored bases include Fort Hood , Fort Pickett , Fort Gordon , Fort Rucker , Fort Polk , Fort A.P. Hill , and Fort Robert E. Lee, reflecting names of past Confederate leaders.
- Trump emphasized his opposition to renaming the forts, recalling that many battles were won there and asserting that such changes will not be allowed to occur again.
- This move reasserts traditional base names amid the Army's 250th anniversary celebrations, including a military parade in Washington D.C. on Flag Day, June 14, 2025.
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Restoring Confederate traitors’ names to U.S. Army bases should not stand
My first cousin some generations removed, Samuel Pryor Timmons, was mortally wounded at the battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. Timmons was a member of Company A, 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Captured by the Confederates, he was shipped first to the infamous Libby Prison in Richmond, and then to Andersonville Prison in Georgia, where he died Sept. 16, 1864. The Confederates at Chickamauga were under the command of Gen. Braxton Bragg. It is …
Trump Is Following in the Footsteps of the Worst Traitor in US History - Alaska Native News
It makes perfect sense that the current chief betrayer of the ideals of our nation would brag to a group of American soldiers that he’s going to rename a military base after Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee killed more Americans than Hitler. More than Khruschev. More than King George III, Ho Chi Mihn, or […] The post Trump Is Following in the Footsteps of the Worst Traitor in US History appeared first on Alaska Native News.
Figures, SPLC President slam Trump over restoring Confederate military base names
In 2020, during the waning days of President Donald Trump’s first term, Congress took rare bipartisan action to strip the names of Confederate leaders from military bases in the U.S. At the time, Trump attempted to block the legislation but failed as both Republicans and Democrats voted overwhelmingly to override the president’s veto. That legislative rebuke seems to have stuck with Trump for the last five years because on Tuesday, during a spee…
No, Trump did not rename Virginia military bases after Confederate generals. Here’s what he did instead.
President Donald Trump traveled to a military base in North Carolina this week to announce that he’s changing the names of seven military bases that had been changed not long ago by then-President Joe Biden. Besides Fort Bragg, “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 said. Not quite. Fort Lee, just south of Petersburg, was, indeed…
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