President Donald Trump held a rally at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg on Tuesday, criticizing his predecessor Joe Biden for having changed the fort’s name but not seeming to realize that while it is again Fort Bragg, it is no longer named after the treasonous Confederate general Braxton Bragg.
“Can you believe they changed that name in the last administration for a little bit?” he asked the assembled Army troops. “We restored the historic name of this very, very special place.”
In fact, though, Trump and his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth , did no such thing. Instead, the fort is now named after Roland Bragg , a World War II hero at the Battle of the Bulge.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act required that military facilities honoring Confederate officers be renamed. Tr