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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump’s throwback to ‘Department of War’ signals a retreat from modern world into past glory

Who knew Harry Truman was so “woke?”

According to President Donald Trump, the 33rd man to be sworn into the office he now holds — the same person who ordered the only use of atomic weapons against civilians during wartime — signed legislation creating the Department of Defense in 1947 not out of a desire to improve the country’s military readiness but out of what Trump posited was “political correctness.”

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