Trump says Army bases will keep Confederate names despite push after George Floyd death
in the Civil War will not change their names.
The Confederate states seceded from the United States in 1861 and fought a bloody, unsuccessful four-year war against the Union states in an effort to maintain the institution of using enslaved black men, women and children to perform labor. U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks and sign the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 in the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday.Trump, in a multi-tweet post, rejected that idea, by arguing that the Confederate names of the bases have become part of the nation's great "heritage."
On Tuesday, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said the Navy would bar the Confederate battle flag from being displayed in a variety of places. Trump's top economic advisor Larry Kudlow told reporters on Wednesday, "I don't believe nowadays we have systemic racism" in the United States.
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