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  • 6/12/2025
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases. Trump made the announcement during a speech at Fort Bragg after watching a demonstration that includes 600 paratroopers landing on a runway and earth-shaking artillery barrages.
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00:00For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett,
00:08Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee.
00:21We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It's no time to change.
00:26And I'm superstitious. You know, I like to keep it going, right?
00:31I'm very superstitious. We want to keep it going.
00:34So that's a big story. We just announced that today to you for the first time.
00:37They said, why didn't you wait till Saturday? I said, I can't wait.

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