US Department of Defense may soon be the Department of War

And now, back to Trump...

Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are apparently planning to change the name of the Department of Defense, on the grounds that it's too, well, defensive.

Their preferred name - you might have guessed it - is the Department of War, the name it carried up until 1949. Per Mr. Trump: "I don't want to be defense only ... As the Department of War, we won everything, and I think we're going to have you go back to that." Hegseth: "That's coming soon, sir." 

The pair of them are insane. Do they have nothing better to do than sit around thinking this stuff up? Kids in a sandbox, or what?

There is much less excitement over the idea within the Pentagon itself and among former defense officials (who are more likely to speak publicly, given that their jobs are not on the line). As one commented, "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". Which sounds about right.

UPDATE

Most recently, Trump has threatened the Democratic city of Chicago with the "Department of War", ia radical escalation of words on Truth Social, complete with AI-generated graphics to make it humorous (kind of).