{"id":208015,"date":"2025-09-07T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208015\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:14:21","slug":"pete-hegseth-reads-from-notes-in-awkward-department-of-war-promo-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208015\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth Reads From Notes in Awkward \u2018Department of War\u2019 Promo Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With the Department of Defense now rebranded as the \u201cDepartment of War,\u201d President Donald Trump shared a new video featuring an awkwardly re-titled \u201cWar Secretary\u201d Pete Hegseth reeling off generic statements about just how tough the department will be. In the video, which Trump posted to Truth Social, Hegseth glances at a script while informing Americans of the reasoning behind the rebrand. \u201cThis name change is not just about renaming, it\u2019s about restoring,\u201d Hegseth said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to fight to win, not not to lose [sic]. We\u2019re going to go on offense, not just on defense.\u201d Trump signed an executive order on Friday slapping the new name on the Department of Defense. However, the president does not actually have the power to officially rename a government department, making \u201cDepartment of War\u201d a secondary title. Arguing that the name change will \u201cset the tone for this country,\u201d Hegseth concluded with a corporate-style sign-off: \u201cAmerica first, peace through strength, brought to you by the War Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115159991746199053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read it at Truth Social<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Department of Defense now rebranded as the \u201cDepartment of War,\u201d President Donald Trump shared a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[49714,77,50,6986,37204,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-208015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-defense-department","10":"tag-donald-j-trump","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pete-hegseth","13":"tag-trumpland","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115163907083907467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}