Trump says he's restoring the original Confederate names of these Army bases — but with new namesakes

Trump says he's restoring the original Confederate names of these Army bases — but with new namesakes

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President Trump announced Tuesday that he will restore several more Army base names that originally honored Confederate military figures, undoing a  ordered by Congress and under President Biden— though the bases will officially recognize other service members, not , going forward.

"We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It's no time to change," the president said in a , which the Trump administration from Fort Liberty earlier this year. "And I'm superstitious, you know?"

Mr. Trump listed out seven Army bases that will revert to a variation of their original names. Under this process, the bases won't be formally named after Confederates who took up arms against the U.S. during the Civil War, but instead after other service members who share similar names.

Here are the renamed bases and their new namesakes, according to an Army spokesperson:

Earlier this year, the Trump administration of Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, and , in Georgia. The two bases were previously named after Confederates, but were renamed in recent years to Fort Liberty and Fort Moore — and then were changed back to recognize non-Confederate soldiers with the last names Bragg and Benning.

Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll will now "take immediate action" to rename the other seven bases, the Army spokesperson said in a release.

These latest renamings will unwind a process overseen by the Naming Commission, a panel that was in the final days of the first Trump term — after lawmakers overrode Mr. Trump's veto — and conducted most of its work during the Biden administration. The moves were part of a that gained traction in 2020.