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Trump Chooses Absolutely Baffling New Topic For Latest Rambling Aside
Ed Mazza – January 22, 2024
Donald Trump’s speech on Sunday took an unexpected turn when he went on a tangent about the names of U.S. military installations.
“We won world wars out of forts,” he said at an event in Rochester, New Hampshire. “Fort Benning, Fort This, Fort That, many forts. They changed the name, we won wars out of these forts, they changed the name, they changed the name of the forts. A lot of people aren’t too happy about that.”
Trump then essentially repeated what he’d just said.
“They changed the name of a lot of our forts. We won two world wars out of a lot of these forts and they changed the name,” he said. “It’s unbelievable.”
Nine U.S. military installations named for Confederate generals have been renamed to honor people who didn’t fight against the United States.
The Fort Benning that Trump mentioned was named for Henry L. Benning, who NPR noted was not just a Confederate general but a “virulent white supremacist.”
The Georgia installation was renamed Fort Moore last year in honor of Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife, Julia Compton Moore, whom Military.com called “one of the Army’s most influential couples.”
Trump’s critics on X, the former Twitter, noted the strange digression:
Paul Waldman: Understand that Trump is mad because military facilities named for treasonous white supremacist slavery advocates who waged war against the United States were renamed to honor actual American heroes. That’s what he and his audience are pissed about.
Sophie Persists: We can’t forget the brave soldiers stationed at Fort This.
Chris Taylor: I was stationed at Fort This in 2009. They wanted to transfer me to Fort That. Lol a commander in chief that can’t even remember the names of the bases, yet he’s so upset the names were changed.
Bryan: I know by now I shouldn’t be surprised at his ignorance. Yet here we are…
Rick Wilson: Grandpa Ranty’s Ahistorical Ignorance Tour, 2024 edition.
Ron Filipkowski: Attached to this post is an excerpt from the speech Henry Benning made at the Virginia convention with his reasons for secession. Trump is bemoaning not having a base named after him. https://t.co/c6HaYsrGa9
Wu Tank is for the Children: Stay in school kids…there is so much insanity in this clip
Pro Lib: “Where were you stationed?” “Fort This, you?” “Fort That!” “Oh weird!”
Sue Z: Good God. And you MAGA people still love him. He’s an incoherent buffoon.
Keith Edwards: Trump is experiencing huge mental decline. The media has to start taking this seriously.