SPLC and Co. Slam Trump Over Restoring Base Names He Didn't Actually Restore.
Figures, Sewell, SPLC President slam Trump over restoring Confederate military base names
If they’re still not named for Confederates what is the ax to grind? Not having total acquiescence? I wonder if the AL Political Reporter ever bothers to look any further that the leftist press-release. And for Mr. Trump: You’re gonna get blamed for it anyway. Why not a full restoration instead of a wimpy little dodge? - DD
n 2020, during the waning days of President Donald Trump’s first term, Congress took rare bipartisan action to strip the names of Confederate leaders from military bases in the U.S. At the time, Trump attempted to block the legislation but failed as both Republicans and Democrats voted overwhelmingly to override the president’s veto.
That legislative rebuke seems to have stuck with Trump for the last five years because on Tuesday, during a speech at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, the president announced that he would be side-stepping the law and restoring the Confederate base names that had been removed by Congress.
Trump previously skirted the law earlier this year to restore the name of Fort Bragg itself, which had been briefly retitled Fort Liberty after originally being named in honor of Confederate general, Braxton Bragg. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that they were not actually restoring the base’s name in honor of the Confederate leader, but in fact renaming the base in homage to obscure military figure Pvt. Roland L. Bragg. The same tactic was employed to restore the name of Georgia’s Fort Benning, using World War I corporal Fred Benning as a proxy for Confederate Brig. Gen. Henry L. Benning.
Trump is now directing the Army to continue that trend with the other bases renamed by Congress. For instance, the name of Fort Eisenhower in Georgia will be reverted back to…