Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Friday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks "stupid as hell" for trying to rename military bases and resurrect honorifics for Confederate officers by using other soldiers as eponymous stand-ins.

The Pentagon announced in February that it would partially restore the names of two military sites that were given new monikers during the Biden administration by honoring decorated veterans of World Wars I and II.

The North Carolina Army base that was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 went back to being known as Fort Bragg in honor of World War II paratrooper Roland Bragg, instead of its original namesake, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg.

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