Trumps Kriegsministerium könnte Steuerzahler über 1 Milliarde US -Dollar kosten | Auf die Frage, wie viel die Namensänderung kosten würde, sagte Trump: „Nicht viel“
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-department-of-war-executive-order-cost-b2821593.html
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I mean, c’mon people, what else could he possibly do to reduce the cost of eggs?
>President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) is changing the Pentagon [to the Department of War ](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-department-of-war-pentagon-b2820568.html)and it could cost taxpayers over $1 billion.
>Trump [signed an executive order](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-live-updates-executive-order-department-war-b2820933.html) Friday afternoon to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War to indicate that America has “the strongest military,” he told reporters from the Oval Office.
>[Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/white-house-pentagon-department-of-war-00545673) warned in an article published Thursday the name change will likely cost billions of dollars as hundreds of Pentagon agencies, its global bases, stationery and other signage will need to be updated.
[https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/white-house-pentagon-department-of-war-00545673](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/white-house-pentagon-department-of-war-00545673)
>Democrats quickly skewered the move. Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) and several others flicked at the irony of such an aggressive action from a president [who reportedly craves](https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-called-norway-finance-minister-ask-about-nobel-peace-prize/) the world’s most notable award for peace.
>“Trump is begging for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Soto [said on X](https://x.com/repdarrensoto/status/1963740329619947544?s=46&t=yvHS4e1BeerGZn2VoEwKQA). “This should cinch it for him right?”
This is a huge waste of money and it’s all about stroking Trump’s ego. America is not stronger because of the ‚Department of War,‘ it seems so weak that it stooped to changing the department’s name in an effort to look stronger.
The United States uses the word “archeology” on official documents instead of the correct spelling “archaeology” because it was determined dropping the second a would save money in the long term of printing and typing.
This is going to cost a billion dollars *easy*
I honestly don’t know why i am surprised when I see Trump saying and saying such stupid stuff
So much for the department of government efficiency
What Trump considers “not a lot” and what we consider “not a lot” are two drastically different things.
Just further illustrates just how out of touch he is.
Every single bit of letterhead, building signage, road signs, base information books, fighting manuals, technical manuals, operations manuals, plaques, ceremonial goods, branded gifts, stationary and every other thing with DoD branding will have to be replaced. All so Dumpy Trump can feel like a tough guy at the expense of service personnel. He is such a loudmouth about things I guarantee he is a coward in his heart and has had never had an actual physical conflict with a man. He has beaten his wife though. What a tough guy.
Of course he says that. It’s not a lot for him. Trump sees the government as a piggy back and the taxpayer forever donors. In a year he’ll announce he’s building a private McDonald’s on the properly, and America is paying for it.
Another slap in the face of the working class, while taking away protections from those who need it. Including his core base.
Do they get it yet? Are they feeling the pain yet?
There’s a sub we all love about leopards eating faces and there’s story after story.
It’s not about reducing the deficit or grocery store prices and it never was. Stripping so many people of the ability to make money. Literally the opposite of everything he promised.
Of course it isn’t a lot to him. Not like he’s spending his own money…
The systematic destruction of the USA government so republicans can scream that they were right that the government is broken.
He might think it’s not a lot because of the $158B in tariffs that he still seems to think other countries pay. Or maybe his family’s recent $6B crypto scam. Or maybe he has no sense of the value of money because [„*By age 3, Mr. Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire.*“](https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/donald-trump-taxes-fred-trump)
Oh good another make work project from a useless manager trying to justify himself.
Apparently they are thinking of renaming the Department of Health and Human Services the Department of Conspiracy Theories, while the new name for the Department of Veterans Affairs is the Department of Veterans‘ Extra-Marital Relationships.
Does it include the price to rename it back once Trump is gone?
Well, no, it’s not a lot when you compare it to the trillions we’ve spent on actual wars in the middle east.
They get credit for giving the department an accurate name.
Republicans love vapid, infantile bullshit. This nonsense is part of why Trump won the popular vote in the United States. No Epstein Files, but a billion for a meaningless rebrand. Because too few Americans were smart and moral enough to vote for someone competent.
Shameful
Hence, the reason for tariffs….tax cuts to rich friends and stupid spending need to be funded by citizens.
And with the invasion of Chicago imminent, the name change seems appropriate as the American Dictator stokes the flames of another Civil War
Nobel Peace Prize aspirant changes defence to war
„conservatives“ do not care! As long as it’s for their dumb fucking ideas, they do not care! They don’t care what Dems think, they don’t care what their constituents think. 🖕all you, is what the think!
This helps winning
Can’t get healthcare or solvent Social Security but we have limitless money for dumb shit
Translation: I don’t k ow or care how much it costs because it’s not my money being spent.
Can’t spend tax dollars on feeding kids or helping poor people with healthcare so we can do performative BS things like this. Glad you got your priorities in order.
Just look at the expression on the active service person in the room. Yikes 😬
It will cost well over a billion – the amount will be very difficult to adequately judge because it will be staff doing this rather than other activities.
The physical changes: paperwork, signs, manuals, etc have to be designed, allocated, shipped, checked, double checked, found to be flawed and start process again,
This is not a small amount of money.
Where the fuck is Congress??
You knew what you were voting for America. Those of outside the US can’t believe what’s happening there.
The only time he cares about cost is when it won’t directly benefit him.