WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday moved to rebrand the Department of Defense as the “Department of War,” declaring that the move will signal American strength on the world stage.

“I think it sends a message of victory," Trump said in an Oval Office ceremony. "I think it sends, really, a message of strength."

What You Need To Know • President Donald Trump on Friday moved to rebrand the Department of Defense as the “Department of War,” declaring that the move will signal American strength on the world stage • Trump signed an executive order seeking to facilitate the change in an Oval Office ceremony in which he lamented that the U.S. “decided to go woke” when it shed its Department of War name in 1947 • The Department of War was created in 1789 and renamed by law in 1947,

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