The president told Fox News 'I don't care what the military says' when asked why he is pushing against their efforts to rename the bases.
if officials rename bases. The NDAA is responsible for funding military expenses like pay raises and military operations. In June, a Pentagon official said the secretary of defense and the secretary of the Army are both “open” to renaming the bases.
“I don’t care what the military says,” Trump told host Chris Wallace on Sunday. “I’m supposed to make the decision.”: Fort Bragg in North Carolina; Camp Beauregard and Fort Polk in Louisiana; Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia; Fort Rucker in Alabama; Fort Hood in Texas; and Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia.
“Fort Bragg was a big deal. We won two World Wars ― nobody even knows General Bragg ― we won two World Wars,” Trump told Wallace. Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general who purchased and forced dozens of enslaved people to work on his sugar plantation."I don't care what the military says" -- Trump dismisses military's support for renaming bases named after Confederate generals
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