LIVE: President Trump kicks off Army's 250th birthday celebrations Tuesday at Fort Bragg

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- President Donald Trump traveled to the nation's largest subject installation Tuesday to footwear disconnected celebrations for the U.S. Army's 250th birthday.

While there, each units astatine Fort Bragg conducted readiness demonstrations for the president. According to the White House, Trump was scheduled to observe a subject objection and past present remarks.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was besides astatine Fort Bragg, accompanying Trump arsenic portion of the celebrations. The 2 leaders volition besides conscionable with soldiers and subject families.

Hegseth took the signifier soon aft 4 p.m., telling the troops the medication was "restoring the warrior ethos" and rejecting "woke garbage" and "political correctness" to cheers from the crowd.

During his remarks, Trump announced that helium is restoring the archetypal names of the bases that had been renamed by the Biden Administration due to the fact that they primitively were named aft Confederate officers.

Trump mentioned that Fort Pickett, Fort AP Hill, Fort Rucker, Fort Gordon, Fort Polk, Fort Lee, and others would beryllium restored to their archetypal names.

The Trump medication has already done that with Fort Benning and Bragg by uncovering soldiers who had won medals for heroism and shared the aforesaid past names arsenic the Confederate officers for whom the bases had primitively been named.

The sojourn drummed up a batch of excitement. Trump supporters shared that the president's determination to statesman the Army's 250th day celebrations astatine Fort Bragg sends a peculiar connection to servicemembers.

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Not everyone was excited astir Trump's sojourn -- a protestation is planned Saturday astatine Cross Creek Linear Park successful Fayetteville, N.C.

The Army's milestone day volition beryllium celebrated nationwide with large events planned, including a expansive parade connected the National Mall successful Washington, D.C., connected June 14, the Army's authoritative birthday, and coincidentally, Trump's day arsenic well.

Tanks and craft volition question to DC for the parade, on with 6,600 soldiers. Hundreds of them volition beryllium coming from Fort Bragg, with officials saying that they're excited to beryllium portion of the large day.

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