“We won two world wars, two wonderful world wars, cruel and terrible, and we won them from Fort Bragg, we won them from all these forts. And now they want to get rid of these names. I am against this, ”he said in an interview with Fox News in response to a question about the possible renaming of military bases named after the commanders of the Confederation.
Trump also said that he “does not care about the military’s opinion” on this subject.
“I have to make a decision,” the US president said.
Earlier, members of the Democratic Party proposed a draft US military budget for fiscal year 2021.
It proposes to give other names to military installations, which now bear the names of figures of the Confederate army.