President Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration will likely soon change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

When “we won World War I, World War II, it was called the Department of War. And to me, that’s really what it is,” Trump said at a press event with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, according to Politico. “Everybody likes that we had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War. Then we changed it to Department of Defense.”

Trump said he’ll “probably” make the change in about a week, Politico said.

The nation’s military operated under the War Department from 1789 to 1947, when the administration of President Harry Truman split the department into the Army and Air Force and joined them with the then-independent Navy,

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