After the Gulf of Mexico was renamed "Gulf of America" by Donald Trump, now it's the turn for the Ministry of Defense to have a new name.
In a statement made on Monday, the US president announced that his government plans to change the name of the Ministry of Defense to the "Department of War" within a few days.
"When we won World War I and World War II, the name was the War Department. And to me, that's the reality," Trump said at a news conference alongside South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.
"Everyone is happy about our extraordinary victory story when it was the Ministry of War. Then we changed it to the Ministry of Defense," he added.
The Department of War existed in the United States from 1789 until 1947, when President Truman's administration divided it into two departments for the Army and Air Force, also merging the Department of the Navy, all under the umbrella of the Department of Defense.
Truman intended that with this name change, he would give more powers to the Pentagon chief, especially over the naval force, according to Politico.
Both Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has promised to restore the department's "wartime ethic," have repeatedly expressed regret over the previous name change.
Trump even called Hegseth "minister of war" during the NATO Summit in June, suggesting that it was political correctness that made the change necessary.
Despite the fact that Trump has hinted that a name change is imminent, the Pentagon will need congressional approval to make any name change happen.
"I don't want to be defense only. We want offense too" — Trump says he wants to change the name of the Department of Defense back to the Department of War pic.twitter.com/
