President Donald Trump managed to dismiss generations of U.S. military heroes on Friday during his announcement that he was changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

“We won the First World War. We won the Second World War. We won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to go woke, and we changed the name to Department of Defense,” Trump complained on Friday.

While the name change had been long anticipated due to the president regularly bringing it up in public, he made it official during an Oval Office order signing session on Friday afternoon.

The Department of Defense has had the name since 1949. It was changed by an act of Congress following World War II, but the president has insisted he did not need Congress to act to change it

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