Trump to sign executive order renaming Pentagon the Department of War

[demmiblue]

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday that will change the name of the Defense Department to the Department of War, a White House official told CNN.

It’s a move that the president has previewed in recent days, including in the Oval Office last week when he told reporters his administration was going to “change the name.”

“We call it the Department of Defense, but between us, I think we’re gonna change the name,” the president told reporters on August 25.

“We won the World War 1, World War 2 - it was called the Department of War, and to me, that’s really what it is. Defense is a part of that, but I have a feeling we’re gonna be changing.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/department-of-war-trump-executive-order

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. This means he's going to war against Europe and NATO and the American people

There is no question about it, the question is what are we going to do about it?

This idea came from Hegseth most certainly who is itching to start wars with all non-white areas and some white areas

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. But wait nothing to worry about, earlier today when I suggested

The piece of shit would have our military fighting against Europe and NATO alongside Russians, at least one person thought my suggestion was so ridiculous the person just did nothing but laugh.

So I guess we don’t have to worry about them doing anything like that, just me again going overboard projecting shit, I would stop if I was wrong.

[Captain Zero]

3. Yep. A war department needs a war to wage.

And a dictator says he wagging the dog.

[IcyPeas]

4. President Bonespurs will leave nothing untouched.

Rename the White House next?

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Shocked he hasn't already to Trump land or piece of shit land

[spanone]

6. He will take us into war before his time is up. He itching for it.

[Johonny]

7. I think he's pissed about the Gulf of America thing

He can't rename a body of water because no other country is going to follow his stupid lead, but he can probably force everyone in the executive branch to call it the Department of War.

[Tommy Carcetti]

8. Lame. nt

[Xolodno]

9. Fairly certain Soviet Marshal's...

Zhukov and Konev would have a difference of opinion during WW2.

[jls4561]

10. How much is this going to cost?

They have to relabel everything-buildings, stationary, etc.

When the Department of War became the DOD, it was to unify the army, navy and Air Force (and I guess the Coast Guard) after World War Two.

Is Fatass going to design the new logo? Because that Star Trek ripoff he came up with for space force is soo kewl.

Every time the idiot comes up with a new idea (and I use the term loosely) someone needs to ask “How much is this costing the American people?”

I nominate Elizabeth Warren to ask the question.

[Diraven]

14. The new logo

Will likely have Trump's own face on it. He won't be able to resist, and Hegseth won't be able to resist sucking up.

[Attilatheblond]

12. Hmmm, since Congress funds the Defense Dept, wouldn't the War Dept have nothing?

[C_U_L8R]

13. The expense is going to be astronomical.

Every sign, every system, every contract, every scrap of paper and bit of data, all of it will need to be redone and rebranded. Is the Republican kissass Congress really going to approve this vainglorious boondoggle? Not with our dollars!!

[Diraven]

15. They'll probably just take it out of the Department funds

Since they have a trillion dollar budget now.

[dalton99a]

16. +1

[LisaL]

17. Doesn't seem to align

with the idea of a Nobel Peace prize.

[struggle4progress]

18. Up next: Washington DC to be called Trumptown, Smithsonian renamed

Donald's Big Beautiful House of Snacks, Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool redesignated as National Waterhazard

[Initech]

19. Oh just go fuck right off and shove your bullshit executive order where it doesn't shine, Donny!

They wouldn't be calling it that unless they're about to do some really evil shit.

[kairos12]

20. Department of War...

Ducking.

[question everything]

21. And this from someone who has never experienced a moment of war in his life

[TheBlackAdder]

22. Trump's going to rename it Pantaloon because he always has his panties in a bunch.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Update: it turns out the new name (Department of War) is actually a nickname as it's a "secondary title" lol

This is only nickname

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. MaddowBlog-Trump wants to rebrand the Defense Department as the 'Department of War'

The president insisted that he and his team were “gonna change the name” of the Defense Department. As it turns out, that isn’t quite right.

Trump wants to rebrand the Defense Department as the ‘Department of War’
The president insisted that he and his team were “gonna change the name” of the Defense Department. As it turns out, that isn’t quite right.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— (@midnightsun49.bsky.social) 2025-09-05T17:20:31.892Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-wants-rebrand-defense-department-department-war-rcna229303

It would be far more accurate to say that Trump likes to pretend he’s good at branding, and that leads him in some unfortunate directions. NBC News reported on Trump’s upcoming executive order to add “Department of War” as the secondary title of the Defense Department:

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.’

......At a White House event last week, a reporter reminded the president that it would require an act of Congress to rename a Cabinet agency. He replied, “We’re just gonna do it.”

The comment now makes more sense: Trump isn’t renaming the department; he’s wrapping a new skin around it like a cheap sedan.

We’ve been headed down this path for much of the year. The first hint came in March, when the president published an item to his social media platform that referred in passing to the Pentagon as “the Department of War.” A few months later, he reiterated his interest in the change and even referred to Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth as the “secretary of war.”.....

On the other hand, Trump has also destabilized international alliances and institutions, announced plans to acquire countries that don’t appear to have any interest in joining the United States, launched a preemptive strike against Iran, militarized his own country’s capital, mused about launching military strikes against targets in Mexico and Central America, boasted about a military strike against a civilian boat in international waters and is now rebranding the Pentagon — because “we want offense, too.”

If he’s still angling to get that Nobel, he might want to lower his expectations.

trump knows that he does not have votes in congress to officially change the name and so is playing a game here

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. It is still the Department of Defense

[WestMichRad]

26. And what was formerly the White House

Is now the Pedophile Penthouse.

[Sewa]

27. So what

Why buy in on a meaningless distraction