Trump 2.0: MAGAA

[kalm]

Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand

Many expressed frustration, anger and downright confusion at the effort, which could cost billions of dollars for a cosmetic change that would do little to tackle the military’s most pressing challenges — such as countering a more aggressive alliance of authoritarian nations.
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“This is purely for domestic political audiences,” said a former defense official. “Not only will this cost millions of dollars, it will have absolutely zero impact on Chinese or Russian calculations. Worse, it will be used by our enemies to portray the United States as warmongering and a threat to international stability.”

Isn't doge supposed to be rooting out waste and fraud like this?

DOGE

Who cares about starving kids, saving lives, protecting our national heritage and weather alerts when you have re-branding needs.

[kalm]

So we’re declaring war on US citizens now? Ok.

And nice Apocalypse Now imagery coming from Captain Bon Spurs. Odds he’s ever watched the movie or understands its implications?

[DSUrocks07]

Many expressed frustration, anger and downright confusion at the effort, which could cost billions of dollars for a cosmetic change that would do little to tackle the military’s most pressing challenges — such as countering a more aggressive alliance of authoritarian nations.
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“This is purely for domestic political audiences,” said a former defense official. “Not only will this cost millions of dollars, it will have absolutely zero impact on Chinese or Russian calculations.”

Ironic. Under similar propaganda type moves under a Democratic administration (base renamings, transgender policies, etc), you could say this exact same thing word for word.







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[UNI88]

Ironic. Under similar propaganda type moves under a Democratic administration (base renamings, transgender policies, etc), you could say this exact same thing word for word.

Maybe or maybe a reasonable person could argue that changing the names of bases named after lost cause traitorous losers is worthwhile. Plus there's the hypocrisy of the "we don't believe in erasing American history – we honor it" lemmings renaming the USN Harvey Milk.

Our military strength is about much more than just waging war, defense is a more appropriate title. It figures that a beta cuck coward whose father paid a doctor to diagnose him with bone spurs so he could dodge the draft would want to play tough guy and rename the Department of Defense without an act of Congress.

[kalm]

[BDKJMU]

Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand

Many expressed frustration, anger and downright confusion at the effort, which could cost billions of dollars for a cosmetic change that would do little to tackle the military’s most pressing challenges — such as countering a more aggressive alliance of authoritarian nations.
...
“This is purely for domestic political audiences,” said a former defense official. “Not only will this cost millions of dollars, it will have absolutely zero impact on Chinese or Russian calculations. Worse, it will be used by our enemies to portray the United States as warmongering and a threat to international stability.”

Isn't doge supposed to be rooting out waste and fraud like this?

Billions of dollars how?

For most of this country’s history, from 1789 until 1947, it was the Dept of War. Did anyone complain when Washington named it the Dept of War?

It was the DOW under the following presidents:
GEORGE WASHINGTON | 1789-1797
JOHN ADAMS | 1797-1801
THOMAS JEFFERSON | 1801-1809
JAMES MADISON | 1809-1817
JAMES MONROE | 1817-1825
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 1825-1829
ANDREW JACKSON | 1829-1837
MARTIN VAN BUREN | 1837-1841
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON | 1841
JOHN TYLER | 1841-1845
JAMES K. POLK | 1845-1849
ZACHARY TAYLOR | 1849-1850
MILLARD FILLMORE | 1850-1853
FRANKLIN PIERCE | 1853-1857
JAMES BUCHANAN | 1857-1861
ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 1861-1865
ANDREW JOHNSON | 1865-1869
ULYSSES S. GRANT | 1869-1877
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES | 1877-1881
JAMES A. GARFIELD | 1881
CHESTER A. ARTHUR | 1881-1885
GROVER CLEVELAND | 1885-1889 / 1893-1897
BENJAMIN HARRISON | 1889-1893
WILLIAM MCKINLEY | 1897-1901
THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 1901-1909
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT | 1909-1913
WOODROW WILSON | 1913-1921
WARREN G. HARDING | 1921-1923
CALVIN COOLIDGE | 1923-1929
HERBERT HOOVER | 1929-1933
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT | 1933-1945
HARRY S. TRUMAN | 1945 until 1947
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.Trump 2025-

[BDKJMU]

Ironic. Under similar propaganda type moves under a Democratic administration (base renamings, transgender policies, etc), you could say this exact same thing word for word.

Maybe or maybe a reasonable person could argue that changing the names of bases named after lost cause traitorous losers is worthwhile. Plus there's the hypocrisy of the "we don't believe in erasing American history – we honor it" lemmings renaming the USN Harvey Milk.

Our military strength is about much more than just waging war, defense is a more appropriate title. It figures that a beta cuck coward whose father paid a doctor to diagnose him with bone spurs so he could dodge the draft would want to play tough guy and rename the Department of Defense without an act of Congress.

Zero evidence of that, just hearsay.

[kalm]

Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand



Isn't doge supposed to be rooting out waste and fraud like this?

Billions of dollars how?

For most of this country’s history, from 1789 until 1947, it was the Dept of War. Did anyone complain when Washington named it the Dept of War?

It was the DOW under the following presidents:
GEORGE WASHINGTON | 1789-1797
JOHN ADAMS | 1797-1801
THOMAS JEFFERSON | 1801-1809
JAMES MADISON | 1809-1817
JAMES MONROE | 1817-1825
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 1825-1829
ANDREW JACKSON | 1829-1837
MARTIN VAN BUREN | 1837-1841
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON | 1841
JOHN TYLER | 1841-1845
JAMES K. POLK | 1845-1849
ZACHARY TAYLOR | 1849-1850
MILLARD FILLMORE | 1850-1853
FRANKLIN PIERCE | 1853-1857
JAMES BUCHANAN | 1857-1861
ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 1861-1865
ANDREW JOHNSON | 1865-1869
ULYSSES S. GRANT | 1869-1877
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES | 1877-1881
JAMES A. GARFIELD | 1881
CHESTER A. ARTHUR | 1881-1885
GROVER CLEVELAND | 1885-1889 / 1893-1897
BENJAMIN HARRISON | 1889-1893
WILLIAM MCKINLEY | 1897-1901
THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 1901-1909
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT | 1909-1913
WOODROW WILSON | 1913-1921
WARREN G. HARDING | 1921-1923
CALVIN COOLIDGE | 1923-1929
HERBERT HOOVER | 1929-1933
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT | 1933-1945
HARRY S. TRUMAN | 1945 until 1947
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.Trump 2025-

Maybe you’re right. After all it’s just a secondary name. Who are we to judge how Trump and Hegseth identify?

[kalm]

So we’ve reached the “Papers, Please” part of our embrace with fascism.

[kalm]

Surgeon General Trump has a lot of ideas.

[UNI88]

Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand



Isn't doge supposed to be rooting out waste and fraud like this?

Billions of dollars how?

For most of this country’s history, from 1789 until 1947, it was the Dept of War. Did anyone complain when Washington named it the Dept of War?

It was the DOW under the following presidents:
GEORGE WASHINGTON | 1789-1797
JOHN ADAMS | 1797-1801
THOMAS JEFFERSON | 1801-1809
JAMES MADISON | 1809-1817
JAMES MONROE | 1817-1825
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 1825-1829
ANDREW JACKSON | 1829-1837
MARTIN VAN BUREN | 1837-1841
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON | 1841
JOHN TYLER | 1841-1845
JAMES K. POLK | 1845-1849
ZACHARY TAYLOR | 1849-1850
MILLARD FILLMORE | 1850-1853
FRANKLIN PIERCE | 1853-1857
JAMES BUCHANAN | 1857-1861
ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 1861-1865
ANDREW JOHNSON | 1865-1869
ULYSSES S. GRANT | 1869-1877
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES | 1877-1881
JAMES A. GARFIELD | 1881
CHESTER A. ARTHUR | 1881-1885
GROVER CLEVELAND | 1885-1889 / 1893-1897
BENJAMIN HARRISON | 1889-1893
WILLIAM MCKINLEY | 1897-1901
THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 1901-1909
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT | 1909-1913
WOODROW WILSON | 1913-1921
WARREN G. HARDING | 1921-1923
CALVIN COOLIDGE | 1923-1929
HERBERT HOOVER | 1929-1933
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT | 1933-1945
HARRY S. TRUMAN | 1945 until 1947
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.Trump 2025-

"could cost billions of dollars ..." What part of the word could do you not understand?

It's still only a nickname under trump so you can remove his term from the list too.

It took an act of Congress to change the name and it will take another to change it back.

hegseth is and will remain the Secretary of beta cucks.

[Bobcat]

Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand



Isn't doge supposed to be rooting out waste and fraud like this?

Billions of dollars how?

For most of this country’s history, from 1789 until 1947, it was the Dept of War. Did anyone complain when Washington named it the Dept of War?

It was the DOW under the following presidents:
GEORGE WASHINGTON | 1789-1797
JOHN ADAMS | 1797-1801
THOMAS JEFFERSON | 1801-1809
JAMES MADISON | 1809-1817
JAMES MONROE | 1817-1825
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 1825-1829
ANDREW JACKSON | 1829-1837
MARTIN VAN BUREN | 1837-1841
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON | 1841
JOHN TYLER | 1841-1845
JAMES K. POLK | 1845-1849
ZACHARY TAYLOR | 1849-1850
MILLARD FILLMORE | 1850-1853
FRANKLIN PIERCE | 1853-1857
JAMES BUCHANAN | 1857-1861
ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 1861-1865
ANDREW JOHNSON | 1865-1869
ULYSSES S. GRANT | 1869-1877
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES | 1877-1881
JAMES A. GARFIELD | 1881
CHESTER A. ARTHUR | 1881-1885
GROVER CLEVELAND | 1885-1889 / 1893-1897
BENJAMIN HARRISON | 1889-1893
WILLIAM MCKINLEY | 1897-1901
THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 1901-1909
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT | 1909-1913
WOODROW WILSON | 1913-1921
WARREN G. HARDING | 1921-1923
CALVIN COOLIDGE | 1923-1929
HERBERT HOOVER | 1929-1933
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT | 1933-1945
HARRY S. TRUMAN | 1945 until 1947
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.Trump 2025-

Nice, that was my first thought as well ALL those other Presidents were right to have a Department of War but not Trump! Orange man bad and stuff!

I voted for this!

[kalm]

How are Pulte’s parents two mortgages going?

The private dinner attended by dozens of administration officials and close advisers to President Donald Trump was temporarily marred by a dramatic clash between two of Trump’s top economic officials, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at one point threatening to punch top housing finance official Bill Pulte “in the fucking face.”

The Wednesday evening event was supposed to be one of celebration: It was both the much-anticipated inaugural dinner at Executive Branch, the ultra-exclusive Georgetown club created by and for Trump world’s uberrich, and a birthday party for MAGA-friendly podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya.

But amid the cocktail-hour din, Bessent lashed out at Pulte in an expletive-laden diatribe. The Treasury secretary had heard from several people that the Federal Housing Finance Agency director had been badmouthing him to Trump, a person close to him said. He wasn’t about to engage in chit-chat as if nothing was amiss.
“Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you,” Bessent told Pulte. “I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face.”
The scene was described to me by one eyewitness and four other people familiar with what happened. The only fact they disagreed on was whether it was Bessent or Pulte who initiated the conversation. They and others who described the conflict were granted anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.
Pulte appeared stunned, and the tense encounter prompted club co-owner and financier Omeed Malik to intervene, according to the three people. But Bessent wasn’t having it — he sought to get him kicked out, the eyewitness said.


“It’s either me or him,” Bessent said to Malik. “You tell me who’s getting the fuck out of here.”
“Or,” he added, “we could go outside.”
“To do what?” asked Pulte. “To talk?”
“No,” Bessent replied. “I’m going to fucking beat your ass.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... fCE_bOwqFw

[Bobcat]

Besent is awesome.

He is a leader and like most of this administration he is as Alpha as Alpha gets. That's why a lot of you cant relate and don't get it.

[kalm]

Besent is awesome.

He is a leader and like most of this administration he is as Alpha as Alpha gets. That's why a lot of you cant relate and don't get it.

Atta boy. You’re siding with the openly gay dude over the one trying to get a Fed governor fired for not cooking the books for Trump.

[Bobcat]

Besent is awesome.

He is a leader and like most of this administration he is as Alpha as Alpha gets. That's why a lot of you cant relate and don't get it.

Atta boy. You’re siding with the openly gay dude over the one trying to get a Fed governor fired for not cooking the books for Trump.

Shes a criminal and broke the law. Nobody is above the law

[kalm]

Atta boy. You’re siding with the openly gay dude over the one trying to get a Fed governor fired for not cooking the books for Trump.

Shes a criminal and broke the law. Nobody is above the law

Pulte’s parents and Trump are above the law.

[Caribbean Hen]

Besent is awesome.

He is a leader and like most of this administration he is as Alpha as Alpha gets. That's why a lot of you cant relate and don't get it.

Atta boy. You’re siding with the openly gay dude over the one trying to get a Fed governor fired for not cooking the books for Trump.

Wrong

I bet most people don’t even realize he’s gay

Bessent is gay but I’m ok with him because he’s not openly gay. He’s secure enough about himself where he doesn’t feel the need to flaunt his gayness like most of these attentions seeker gays

[kalm]

Atta boy. You’re siding with the openly gay dude over the one trying to get a Fed governor fired for not cooking the books for Trump.

Wrong

I bet most people don’t even realize he’s gay

Bessent is gay but I’m ok with him because he’s not openly gay. He’s secure enough about himself where he doesn’t feel the need to flaunt his gayness like most of these attentions seeker gays

Huh? Ever heard of free expression? Do you realize it tends to increase after decades of repression and judgement.

Do you get hot and bothered by pics like these? I mean just look at them flaunt their straightness! Doesn’t it bother you?

[UNI88]

Atta boy. You’re siding with the openly gay dude over the one trying to get a Fed governor fired for not cooking the books for Trump.

Wrong

I bet most people don’t even realize he’s gay

Bessent is gay but I’m ok with him because he’s not openly gay. He’s secure enough about himself where he doesn’t feel the need to flaunt his gayness like most of these attentions seeker gays

You're not that oblivious are you? It's obvious that it's a love triangle. They're both raw-dogging trump's rectum, wanted the little mushroom man all to themselves and were insanely jealous of each other as a result.

[Caribbean Hen]

Wrong

I bet most people don’t even realize he’s gay

Bessent is gay but I’m ok with him because he’s not openly gay. He’s secure enough about himself where he doesn’t feel the need to flaunt his gayness like most of these attentions seeker gays

You're not that oblivious are you? It's obvious that it's a love triangle. They're both raw-dogging trump's rectum, wanted the little mushroom man all to themselves and were insanely jealous of each other as a result.

So you guys are both officially out of the closet now I see … so gross

[kalm]

You're not that oblivious are you? It's obvious that it's a love triangle. They're both raw-dogging trump's rectum, wanted the little mushroom man all to themselves and were insanely jealous of each other as a result.

So you guys are both officially out of the closet now I see … so gross

You know what’s gross? Denying Bessent is openly gay (he is) and raping under-age girls.

[Caribbean Hen]

So you guys are both officially out of the closet now I see … so gross

You know what’s gross? Denying Bessent is openly gay (he is) and raping under-age girls.

Oh geez . What the heck … your speaking in tongues

My point on Bessent was he’s not dying to show you he’s gay like some sort of attention look at me type gay

I say this from observation based on him being interviewed multiple times every day

I have no interest in his private life

[kalm]

You know what’s gross? Denying Bessent is openly gay (he is) and raping under-age girls.

Oh geez . What the heck … your speaking in tongues

My point on Bessent was he’s not dying to show you he’s gay like some sort of attention look at me type gay

I say this from observation based on him being interviewed multiple times every day

I have no interest in his private life

Other than it’s “gross”, right?

You do realize it was you who said he’s not openly gay, right? So flamboyance is what bothers you…as I implied earlier. What in the heck do we do about it? Just accept it? Ugh!

[Caribbean Hen]

Oh geez . What the heck … your speaking in tongues

My point on Bessent was he’s not dying to show you he’s gay like some sort of attention look at me type gay

I say this from observation based on him being interviewed multiple times every day

I have no interest in his private life

Other than it’s “gross”, right?

You do realize it was you who said he’s not openly gay, right? So flamboyance is what bothers you…as I implied earlier. What in the heck do we do about it? Just accept it? Ugh!

You’re so far out of the closet you might as well be toking a joint at the family Thanksgiving day gathering …