While you're technically correct that the bases aren't being renamed in honor of the Confederate generals for which they were originally named Trump has promoted the false narrative that original names are being reinstated. In his speech at Ft. Bragg he strongly implied that the one of the base name being restored was Fort Robert E. Lee was to honor Ge. Lee in the process praising General Lee for leadership during the Civil War. As a point of information I always thought that Ft. Bragg should have been renamed in honor of Gen. Matthew Ridgway. Gen. Ridgway commanded the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II, he was later commander of Supreme UN commander during the Korean War and became the Army Chief of Staff.
Finally, a positive review for Trump's parade! This outlet is usually not known for gushing about Trump, so it is fairly unusual. Trump’s Military Parade Was a Pathetic Event for a Pathetic President | The New Republic You'd think that the Secretary of State was yawning or something . . .
So those servicemembers who were reenlisted by the president, What are they now? Some kind of disgrace too by your twisted bitter logic?
I heard him say Robert E. Lee, too. I am certainly not here to defend the words that come out of the President’s mouth. In my opinion, the base will end up being renamed for Lee’s father, Major General “Light Horse Harry” Lee, who was a Revolutionary War hero and never a secessionist.
So instead of celebrating the service of people’s daughters, sons, husbands, nieces, spouses, uncles, aunts, the usual bitter spreadsheet personalities living in a vacuum on here; choose to rail on the president. Again. Outstanding.
Both things are possible. Trump inserts himself into every event, every institution, so it's not exactly a surprise there's critical blowback. Why don't you do you, and stop trying to censor what others say.
250 years is a big milestone. 200 years was a bigger milestone. Did we do something in 1975 of this magnitude to celebrate the 200 year milestone?
Trump gets trolled big-time during his birthday party. Someone played CCR's "Fortunate Son" on the loudspeakers. ""Fortunate Son" is a song about a wealthy draft dodger who gets out of the Vietnam War . . . sound familiar? Song author John Fogerty said that the song was about people like Trump, who used his wealth to dodge the draft, so he can't understand why Trump would use it at events such as political rallies. I can explain it: Trump is just that stupid to think "Fortunate Son" is a compliment because he cannot think past the hook line of the song without engaging too many brain cells. Either that, or he realizes that he was privileged enough to buy his way out of the draft, and therefore he's entitled to brag about that privilege in front of people who were not so privileged. Was Trump Being Trolled With Creedence's 'Fortunate Son' at Parade?
I'll second @uftaipan opinion on this. I was working with the Army last summer for several months and all of them kept referring to Bragg, Benning, etc. Those are just the institutional names they are known as and you have multiple generations of service members that know them by those names. Asking them to start calling them something different was never realistic when you knew another Republican Admin was a possibility and would change them back.
No censorship please step back from the drama. If you insist and take it that way, you exist in your own special hysterical reality. He’s the commander in chief, he has that prerogative, just like every other CinC does.
"... the usual bitter spreadsheet personalities living in a vacuum on here" Am I one of these "personalities?" You sound kind of bitter. Maybe hysterical? Definitely dramatic. And insultingly judge-y.
No idea how you arrived at that conclusion. Will admit I don’t understand Trump worshippers. I already said I appreciate our troops. Back before I retired, I had a buttswipe boss, completely lacking in skills to deserve his job. These brave troops can’t pick their boss anymore than could I.
Ft. Hitler is being renamed for Bill Hitler, who did something in some war so that Trump doesn’t consider him to be a loser.
If it makes you feel any better, the Army made these decisions, not the President. Since you were clearly never in the Army, why not have the courtesy to defer to those in the profession? The Soldiers prefer the old names for reasons I have already stated and were going to keep using them anyway. The Confederate legacy had nothing to do with it as these places were just known by those names for generations. But since it was the Confederate aspect that understandably offended some, then we can remove all references to that. So what is our remaining problem?
