"He does … fervently stand against the renaming of our forts, these great American fortresses where literally some of these men and women who lost their lives, as they went out to Europe and Afghanistan and Iraq, and all across this world, to win world wars on behalf of freedom, a lot of times the very last place they saw was one of these forts," McEnany said.
Asked specifically about what would happen if Congress sent over a defense authorization including language renaming bases for Union generals, McEnany said that would also be unacceptable to the president.
"The president will not be signing legislation that renames America's forts," McEnany said. "Fort Bragg, for example, it's one of the largest military installations. It's home to tens of thousands of brave American soldiers, and when you think of Fort Bragg, we think of the brave soldiers that deployed from there."
The press secretary specifically cited the first African American parachute division as having trained at the North Carolina base, the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion.
"We've got to honor what has happened there, not rename it," McEnany said of Fort Bragg in particular.
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