Rambling Donald Trump goes off on a bizarre rant about the US military during rally
Coherence, articulateness, not Trumps fortes. 'I was based at Fort This, you? Fort That'. Makes one long for his riffs on retaking colonial airports and ramming the ramparts.
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Donald Trump’s speech before the New Hampshire primaries took a bizarre turn as he went on a tangent about “forts” and their role in the World Wars.
The former president was speaking at an event in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Sunday when he made curious comments about forts and their renaming. “We won world wars out of forts. Fort Benning, Fort This, Fort That, many forts,” he began in a typical Trump fashion.
“They changed the name, we won wars out of these forts, they changed the name, they changed the name of the forts. A lot of people aren’t too happy about that,” Trump continued. He is believed to be referring to the nine US military institutions which were named after Confederate generals - and have since been renamed in honor of people who didn’t fight against the United States.
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“They changed the name of a lot of our forts. We won two world wars out of a lot of these forts and they changed the name,” he repeated. “It’s unbelievable.” The comments prompted confusion and concern regarding Trump’s mental state, with Democrat strategist Keith Edwards saying: “Donald Trump is experiencing huge mental decline. The media has to start taking this seriously.”
A closer look at the renamed institutions raises further questions over Trump’s rant. Fort Benning in Georgia was named after Henry L. Benning, who along with being a Confederate general fighting the US, was also a known “virulent white supremacist”. Last year, the institution was named in honor of Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife, Julie Compton Moore - dubbed by Military.com “one of the Army’s most influential couples”.
The renaming of the forts was a concerted effort to remove an “entire category of memorials venerating the Confederacy is gone” , according to NPR journalist Juana Summers on flagship program All Things Considered. The program was celebrating the final name change of the nine U.S. Army bases, with a Georgia institution turning from Fort Gordon into Fort Eisenhower.
“The bases were named for men who fought against the very army that uses them and for the right to own slaves . The new names are different,” explained Jay Price, military reporter for WUNC. “Bases were renamed for the first woman to win the Medal of Honor, a Hispanic Army hero and now Eisenhower, the general who planned and led the D-Day invasion and later became president, people who did big things for their nation rather than against it.”
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Coherence, articulateness, not Trumps fortes. 'I was based at Fort This, you? Fort That'. Makes one long for his riffs on retaking colonial airports and ramming the ramparts.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/...638531001/
Donald Trump’s speech before the New Hampshire primaries took a bizarre turn as he went on a tangent about “forts” and their role in the World Wars.
The former president was speaking at an event in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Sunday when he made curious comments about forts and their renaming. “We won world wars out of forts. Fort Benning, Fort This, Fort That, many forts,” he began in a typical Trump fashion.
“They changed the name, we won wars out of these forts, they changed the name, they changed the name of the forts. A lot of people aren’t too happy about that,” Trump continued. He is believed to be referring to the nine US military institutions which were named after Confederate generals - and have since been renamed in honor of people who didn’t fight against the United States.
READ MORE: Donald Trump's 'mental fitness' under scrutiny amid miscues and confusion at rally
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/donald...der-301013
“They changed the name of a lot of our forts. We won two world wars out of a lot of these forts and they changed the name,” he repeated. “It’s unbelievable.” The comments prompted confusion and concern regarding Trump’s mental state, with Democrat strategist Keith Edwards saying: “Donald Trump is experiencing huge mental decline. The media has to start taking this seriously.”
A closer look at the renamed institutions raises further questions over Trump’s rant. Fort Benning in Georgia was named after Henry L. Benning, who along with being a Confederate general fighting the US, was also a known “virulent white supremacist”. Last year, the institution was named in honor of Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife, Julie Compton Moore - dubbed by Military.com “one of the Army’s most influential couples”.
The renaming of the forts was a concerted effort to remove an “entire category of memorials venerating the Confederacy is gone” , according to NPR journalist Juana Summers on flagship program All Things Considered. The program was celebrating the final name change of the nine U.S. Army bases, with a Georgia institution turning from Fort Gordon into Fort Eisenhower.
“The bases were named for men who fought against the very army that uses them and for the right to own slaves . The new names are different,” explained Jay Price, military reporter for WUNC. “Bases were renamed for the first woman to win the Medal of Honor, a Hispanic Army hero and now Eisenhower, the general who planned and led the D-Day invasion and later became president, people who did big things for their nation rather than against it.”
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