Per Fox - the 2:00 announcement is about the DOD. Probably changing to Dept. of War

[underpants]

The last part is my guess. I saw headlines over the weekend that Trump wants to change the name back to the Department of War.

From Fox in Facebook
TUNE IN: President Trump will be making a special announcement related to the Department of Defense at 2p ET, Karoline Leavitt tells FOX News' Jacqui Heinrich.

Somehow I got a fan medal from them. I rarely commented on their site and now it’s pretty much the first post I see. 🙄

[Lovie777]

1. Yawns.........

Since India appears to be no longer USA’s friend, can the corporations return customer service jobs back to this country?

[Prairie Gates]

2. Boooooring

[gab13by13]

3. The more I think about it,

this is his proof of life appearance. His make up artists and hair dressers are probably working on him now. Lots of putty for the face and new make up to better hide the bandage on his hand.

He will probably be back to wearing his tie. Maybe he will drop down and do 20 pushups? Nah?

[doubleplusgood]

5. "a triumph of the embalmer's art"

As Gore Vidal once described Reagan, it is just as applicable to the Orange One.

[underpants]

6. That's very reasonable

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. The dork who thinks he earned the Peace Prize is WAR mongering. . . . nt

[LeftinOH]

7. Another rebranding stunt like "Gulf of America." It gives the MAGA rubes

the impression that he's actually doing something.

[SheltieLover]

8. EPSTEIN, MALARIA, & MAXWELL

[C_U_L8R]

9. Stupid vanity project

Will cost millions on new signage, printed materials, etc

[underpants]

10. Changing contracts and MOU's I'd expect too

Letterhead.

[haele]

16. Billions. Seriously.

As someone before pointed out, all current references to the Department of Defense on contracts, official documents like directives, instructions, MOAs, MOUs, and Regulations must be "changed" and re-signed.
Legal Personnel records and orders - like hiring documents, training records, Veterans Affairs, retirement and and other official action documents need to be updated, or otherwise identified as still applicable despite the change of the department that issued the document or directive/order.
Also, changing the Department can open up all sorts of chances for messing around with internal regulations that define limits to uses of force or lethality.. a modern Department of War can be defined to have other strategic goals than a Department of Defense might have - including loosening the criteria for "First Strike".
The reason the Department of Defense was created was to consolidate the various War Departments for the Navy and the Army (and Air Force) under a single funding, supply, and strategic umbrella that Congress could manage at all times, both in peace and war, after the interdepartmental bickering and political issues that caused all sorts of waste and fatal miscalculations encountered during WWII (like - why were there no heavy cruisers at D-Day?)

It's not just changing the letterhead that's going to cost us with this change.

[C_U_L8R]

17. Yup. Stupid Trump strikes again

[taxi]

11. It would be just like him to later on put out an EO

that says all DoD contracts are void because DoD doesn't exist anymore.

[underpants]

12. Looks like my guess was wrong. Moving Space Command from Colorado to Al Abama

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220604680

[taxi]

13. Actually, I had read and agreed with your OP

My reply here was more along the lines of taking a wild shot at what stupid thing he could possibly do next.

[Ping Tung]

14. With its current boss shouldn't it be called the Department of Duh-fense?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

15. So my late husband's Military retirement will be from the Dept. of War now?

[Tribetime]

18. EPSTEIN DISTRACTION