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submitted 2 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The directive won't rename the Defense Department, which would require congressional approval, but it will make the Department of War its secondary title.

Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday adding "Department of War" as the secondary title of the Defense Department, two White House officials told NBC News.

The order, which Trump is expected to sign in the Oval Office, won't rename the Defense Department, but it will authorize Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use secondary titles like “secretary of war” and “Department of War” in official correspondence and public communications and during formal ceremonies, according to a White House preview of the order.

Trump will require all executive departments and agencies to “recognize and accommodate these secondary titles in internal and external communications.”

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[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago

Everyone! Everyone! It’s the anti war president! Give him a peace prize!!!!

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

His might makes all others quail in fear, thus resulting in total peace!

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

Well, they are shaking. Though, by seeing subs like boycottus and fucktheus I feel like it’s probably rage and not fear.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

At least some of it is laughter.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Everyone should just refer to the DoD as the Department of Epstein Files from now on. Because this is yet another flagrantly transparent attempt to distract everyone away from that issue.

[-] YogaDouchebag@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Anytime you think the bar can’t go lower, it still does.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

"The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here's Trump, limbo dancing with the devil."

I don't know where I read that one but I liked it.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

I don't much like Trump, but for once he's right: the US Department of Defense is mostly doing war in the world, and very little defense. When was the last time the US armed forces defended the country?

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I don't think that's why he renamed it

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 months ago

JFC, maybe we can give this administration a secondary title…

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Pedo party!

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

EPSTEIN FILES!

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Trump is such an unfunny bore… What a missed opportunity to rename it the Hexagon and troll the hell out of everybody.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Well at least it makes it easier to argue that the only thing America does for the world is violence

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well yeah, but if your argument is that the DoD needed a name that better describes its role, Trump should have renamed it the Department of Pork.

Because that's mostly what it does: feed the military-industrial complex.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Trump will require all executive departments and agencies to “recognize and accommodate these secondary titles in internal and external communications.”

Can't use preferred names/pronouns...

But Grand Puba of the 27th Kingdom of fluffershit can just make up any bullshit title and insist everyone else uses it?

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