Source: In These Times
by Alberto Toscano
“President Donald Trump on September 5 signed the 200th executive order of his second term, bypassing the congressional approval constitutionally required for a full renaming of the Department of Defense by introducing the ‘“Department of War’ as a ’secondary’ designation. Ever preoccupied with names (remember the ‘Gulf of America’?), Trump’s order aims to advertise ’our willingness and availability to wage war to secure what is ours.’ At the public signing, Trump presented the 1947 name change as the end of a century and a half of American military victories: ’And then we decided to go woke and we changed the name to the Department of Defense.’ The millions of casualties of U.S. wars since, from Korea and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan — wars replete with racist justifications for mass murder — would no doubt be surprised to know they were victims of ’woke’.” (11/10/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/secretary-of-all-wars-pete-hegseth-trump-military