It's real, sadly, I watched it, my parents in law was watching the stupid statement and I joined them. It was yuck

When I started reading the quote, I assumed it was a joke, just from the format, not the content. When I got to the part where it said, "It used to be called the Department of War and it had a stronger sound," I felt the typical disgust and contempt I usually feel when listening to Trump, and so I knew it was almost certainly a genuine quote.

Anyone care to enlighten us? Because I honestly can't tell, either.

You can always trust the fact Trump is a monumental moron.

Also in a way it's not made our jobs easier. It's difficult to argue cutting "defense" funds, but it's a lot easier to be against a "war" department.

The files ARE the distraction

I think he just likes to dangle something controversial and shiny in his left hand so you forget he’s hiding the Epstein files behind his back with the right hand. He def knows how to rustle the left’s jimmies, unfortunately.

mental decline

Are you forgetting he remembered "person, woman, man, camera, TV" that one time?

That's very graphic

I'd tell him to look at the flowers but he paved the rose garden.

The cankles are the front line. It may take some time but I’m optimistic that gravity will win.

dont worry he will counter it with the acid content of his diet cokes.

Good, this would preserve the acronym too!

They are reserving that for RFK.

Probably coined by Netanyahu.

I absolutely agree with you and surprisingly, Trump on this.

Broken clock and all.

Yeah, in this rare instance, I agree with Uncle Donny. The US hasnt fought a war for peace or defense in over 75 years. Might as well change the name to more accurately depict its purpose. He is still a moron though....

It was the "War Department" from 1789 to 1947.

And also the Department of the Navy was its own thing for a while, as was the Department of the Army, then Air Force, before getting folded into the War Department. Harry Truman dissolved the War Department in 1947 because 1) WWII was over and so the US was not in a declared war anymore, and 2) there was a larger consolidation of war powers under the SecDef post-war.

If anything, name it the Department of Violence and Death and see how people react.

Here comes the department of grammar. Can I enroll?

Thinking like that its a good thing right up until the voters are actually stoked about a department of war.

Guarantee it wont be long until youre seeing red hats going off about how cool it is they finally have a department of war as if its a whole new thing.

"Remember how much ass we kicked with only a defense department? Look out world! MIGHTY TRUMP finally made a department of war too!"

Do not underestimate this country's propensity to proudly engage in jingoism. Just look at our history to see how that went.

This isn't a good thing because it's not an effort to be more honest, it's a signal of future intent.

There's a reason why after WWII the Department of War was renamed Department of Defense.

We weren't at war. We're not currently at war, either. Chester's gotta ask Congress to rubber-stamp a war first.

department of epistein victims.

I doubt anybody suggested "Ministry of Peace" to him. He would have heard "Ministry of Piss" and green-lighted the change.

The answer is so simple, they're all fucking morons.

Be a wo/manchild

Mostly fear, all the way down.

I guess if you look UP to something like this, it says a LOT about you. Trump supporters are a special kind of special.

Agree. It would be a lot more honest to call it the war department.

The Nazis also had a ministry of propaganda which was admirably candid.

You’re talking as it that was not staged at all.

it is just a distraction from that, hes trying everything and anything to use the firehose of falsehood against MSM to flood it instead of him being president of epstein island.

The BIGGEST