That’s right. The man who is lobbying daily for the Nobel Peace Prize has renamed the DOD to the DOW. Why? Because he and all of his followers have deep, deep insecurity about the size of their … hands. The NY Times reports:
President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War, the White House said, fulfilling the president’s pledge to realign the mission of the armed forces by reverting to a name used for over 150 years until shortly after World War II.
The measure, which has been expected for some time, underscores Mr. Trump’s efforts to reshape the military to align with his goals of projecting a more aggressive image by showcasing war-fighting capabilities.[…]
“We had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War,” Mr. Trump said.
“Defense is too defensive,” he added. “And we want to be defensive, but we want to be offensive too if we have to be.”
He’s very offensive. That’s certainly not a problem.
MAGA is intellectually folding in on itself. Trump ran as an isolationist who was going to focus on the “homeland” and not be involved in all those forever wars. He’s desperate to be praised as the “peace president” for “ending 7 wars” (which he cannot name) and demands that he be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But he’s ordered military action against accused drug runners and has a huge deployment of Navy vessels sitting outside Venezuela in international waters where they ostentatiously blew up a speed boat without any legal justification, clearly trying to provoke a reaction by the government. The dissonance in all this — and now the renaming of the DOD to the War Department — is overwhelming.
I’ve always thought that Trump wanted to be a war president. He’s yearning to put on a uniform of some kind. But since he’s an imbecile and never had a clue about national security, he reflexively became “anti-war” in order to place himself against Bush and Obama and he trained his MAGA seals to believe it. But I don’t think he cares much about what they think anymore and believes he can say and do whatever he wants and they will follow. (Epstein is proving that may not be entirely true…)
He is a violent, hostile prick and always has been. He’s already declared war on the American people who refuse to lick his boots and those he’s declared his personal enemies. He’s even using troops in our cities. And he’s declared economic war on the entire world, making new enemies every day. He bombed Iran and now he’s going to use that big shiny military he’s so proud of to start a war in South America.
Of course he’s renamed in the Department of War. That’s what it is.