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Trump to Restore Names of Confederate Generals, Including Robert E. Lee, to Army Bases
- On June 10, 2025, President Donald Trump announced at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, that he will restore original names of seven Army bases previously renamed.
- This decision reverses the Biden administration’s renaming efforts begun in 2021 to remove Confederate associations from military bases, a process that cost nearly $40 million.
- Bases such as Fort Hood in Texas and Fort Pickett in Virginia will revert to honoring distinguished military personnel like Col. Robert B. Hood and 1st Vernon W. Pickett instead of Confederate figures.
- Trump stated, "We won a lot of battles out of those forts" and emphasized, "it's no time to change," highlighting emotional and historical ties to the names in his speech celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary.
- The move suggests a rollback of efforts to address Confederate legacy in the military and signals continued debate over base names amid ongoing cultural and political disputes.
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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…
Trump Is Preparing the Military for Political War—And He’s Using a Confederate Traitor to Do It
Robert E. Lee killed more Americans than Hitler. More than Khruschev. More than King George III, Ho Chi Mihn, or Kim Il Sung. He killed more Americans than we’ve lost in every war since the American Revolution, combined. He was the largest mass...
Trump to Restore Confederate Names of Army Bases
President Donald Trump is restoring the original Confederate names of Army bases like Fort Lee, undoing a trend of leftist cultural revisionism that escalated in the Biden era. The post Trump to Restore Confederate Names of Army Bases appeared first on Slay News.
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