On June 10, 2025, President Donald Trump declared his intention to overturn the Biden administration’s renaming of U.S. military bases, reinstating their original Confederate-era titles, including Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee.
President Trump has announced that the U.S. military will be restoring the names of forts such as Fort Hood, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee.
Good! Those names are the ones they bore when they trained the American troops who fought and won two world wars. They should be…
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 10, 2025
This decision seeks to reverse the 2023 changes prompted by nationwide racial justice protests following George Floyd’s death in 2020.
Trump criticized the renamings as driven by “woke” ideology, asserting that restoring the original names upholds military heritage and historical value.