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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said Monday that "there's nothing normal" about Donald Trump suggesting Chicago would "find out why it's called the Department of WAR," as the President faces backlash over a social post that critics read as threatening military action against an American city.

President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to unleash his newly rebranded "Department of War" on Chicago, further heightening tensions over his push to deploy troops into Democratic-led US cities.

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth says the name change signals a more offensive approach for the US military under Trump.

Directive will make Department of War secondary title and is way to get around need for congressional approval

Apparently we're making war sound cooler again... because that's what America needs right now.

Donald Trump will sign an executive order allowing the Pentagon to use its historic title, the Department of War. The White House says the change reflects strength, but critics call it costly and symbolic.

President also says US must be ‘very careful’ in removing mandates for ‘vaccines that are so amazing’

Although the US President’s decision to rename the Department of Defense is a highly controversial one, the government arm was actually called the Department of War until 1947.

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