Former President Donald Trump wants to make a North Carolina military installation great again.
Trump mentioned Fort Liberty in remarks he made during a town hall in Fayetteville, near the military base, pledging to revert its name back to Fort Bragg which had been updated to emove the name of a Confederate general.
“The first question that I asked: Should we change the name from Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg?” Trump said, prompting applause from the crowd at Fayetteville’s Crown Center Arena. “So here’s what we do, we get elected. I’m doing it.”
President Trump pledges to change the name “Fort Liberty” back to Fort Bragg once he gets back in office in Fayetteville, NC pic.twitter.com/z6mWXwolZf
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The North Carolina Army base is the largest in the country and was renamed to Fort Liberty after sporting the name of Gen. Braxton Bragg, reportedly a slave owner and Confederate general.
“I’m going to promise to you, as I said at the beginning, that we’re going to change the name back to Fort Bragg,” Trump reiterated near the end of the event.
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Trump promises to Build an Iron Dome over America and rename the Military Base back to FORT BRAGG pic.twitter.com/3C3qskc5Rs
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) October 4, 2024
“The military renamed nine installations, including Fort Bragg, as part of a 2021 congressionally mandated process to remove the names of Confederate soldiers that followed widespread social justice protests after the murder by police of George Floyd in Minneapolis,” Politico reported. “Trump, while in office, vetoed a bipartisan military spending bill in part because it included a recommendation to change the name of Fort Bragg and eight other installations. Congress overrode the veto and Fort Liberty was adopted at the recommendation of a commission following a public comment period.”
Trump focused some time on military and foreign policy during the town hall moderated by GOP Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, calling out President Joe Biden for saying Israel shouldn’t target nuclear sites in Iran.
“We have to be absolutely prepared. But when they asked him that question, the answer should have been, ‘hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later,’” Trump said.
The Republican presidential nominee criticized President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the “rotten” and “terrible” administration response to Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic devastation.
“They are doing — this is Katrina — the worst job on a hurricane that any administration has ever done. And these people don’t want to talk about it,” Trump said, referring to the press.
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