Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a video to social media Friday showing the nameplate on his office being changed to reflect President Trump’s renaming of the Department of Defense.
A video Hegseth posted to the social media platform X shows the nameplate on his office door being swapped out to one that reads “Secretary of War.”
The title change reflects Trump’s Friday executive order that renamed the department the “Department of War.”
Congress will have to approve the name change before it’s official. Republicans, led by Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.), unveiled legislation Friday to help the process.
The rebrand is an ode to the original Department of War established under former President Washington in 1789. The Department of Defense was established in 1949.
“Really it has to do with winning,” Trump said of what inspired the rebranding. “We should have won every war. We could have won every war, but we really chose to be very politically correct or wokey and we just fight forever.”
Hegseth began rolling out the new moniker Thursday, thanking reporters for “traveling with the War Department.”
