Here’s why President Trump says he wants to rebrand ‘Dept. of Defense’ to ‘Dept. of War’

If America’s Commander in Chief has his wish, the Department of Defense (DOD) will soon be changing its name.

President Donald Trump says he wants to change the “Department of Defense” to the “Department of War.”

Here’s what he has said about the change so far.

At the conclusion of a June 25 NATO meeting in the Netherlands, Trump introduced Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as “secretary of war.”

Trump said then that the name of the War Department, the precursor to the Defense Department, was visible on the wall of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, where the agency was once housed.

“Then we became politically correct and they called it the Secretary of Defense,” Trump said at the time. “Maybe we’ll have to think about changing it. But we feel that way.”