Trump announces plans to restore forts named for Confederate generals

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that his administration would restore the names of forts that previously honored Confederate generals, after they were renamed during the Biden administration.

The name changes came as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) under Trump's term in 2021. Though he vetoed the bill on the grounds of the name changes, the Congress overrode him.

"But for a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Robert E. Lee," Trump said at an event in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

"We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It's no time to change. And I'm superstitious, you know, I like to keep it going, right? I'm very superstitious. We want to keep it going. So that's a big story," he added.

Under the prior name changes, Ft. Lee became Ft. Gregg Adams, Ft. Pickett became Ft. Barfoot, Ft. Gordon became Ft. Eisenhower, Ft. Rucker became Ft. Novosel, Fr. Polk became Ft. Johnson, and Fort A.P. Hill became Ft. Walker.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth previously renamed Ft. Liberty to Ft. Bragg, though he opted against restoring the name to honor Confederate General Braxton Bragg and instead picked a U.S. veteran of the same last name. Hegseth made the same move with Ft. Benning.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Just the News that the administration planned on "restoring the names" in an apparent confirmation that the forts would receive their original Confederate names.