FOX News host Greg Gutfeld on Friday’s edition of “The Five” reacted to criticism of President Donald Trump changing the Department of Defense to its former name, the Department of War.

SANDRA SMITH: Greg, do you see any problem with this? By the way, that was fresh, just a few moments ago. GREG GUTFELD: I can smell it. SMITH: They’re actively — they’re actively changing the names on those government buildings, as you can see, removing the defense. GUTFELD: I love the idea of changing names to represent the ideal, right? It’s pure persuasion. This is why a lot of the liberals like Jessica have to psychoanalyze him, because they don’t understand persuasion. When you have somebody like Van Hollen who speaks like a lawyer, you’re never going to persuade anybody. They should do this with all the departments. The ATF, which is Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, just call it the Department of Fun, the IRS, the Department of Extortion, the Department of Indian Affairs, casinos, casinos. TSA just call it second base. But Trump is the most antiwar president I’ve ever had the pleasure of being alive for, and all of his strikes, as you know, are highly specific, and you can only do that with a really, really powerful war machine. We predicted that the taking out the narco terrorists, in a matter of time, the media and the Dems would side with the narco terrorists because Trump did it, and also because their problems, i.e. the bad guys, always seem to matter more than ours, Americans, whether it’s fentanyl, gangs, sex trafficking. I’m sure one of those drug smugglers, we will find out through Van Hollen owned a puppy and used to read to his grandma late at night. But we talk about the past, we don’t have to go that far for this distinction, Trump was making a distinction about the last four years, what did Biden do to the Department of Defense? He turned it into a laboratory for social experimentation. It wasn’t about protecting the country. We saw it. Everybody knew it. It was about making it an enlightened vehicle for the rainbow people. They treated the military like a Disney remake. You know, let’s update all the characters, right? We’ll add a gay here, put a trans there, a non- binary woodland elf, and then Trump enters the picture. He says, no, no, no, no, no, it’s about war, and if it doesn’t fit that definition, we don’t want it. His critics don’t understand this, and he drives him crazy because he operates on a superpower they don’t have, which is persuasion. What is persuasion? Blunt language, usually that’s pretty colorful and memorable, Department of War. You know, he understands incentives and disincentives. Department of War is a disincentive. What he also has you think past the sale, calling it the Department of War, then has you accept the premise in its own title. So, when you hear things, you go, we need new missiles, Department of War. That sounds about right. We wanted Diversity Month. Is that diverse? Is that Department of War? No, it isn’t. So, he creates this world for you, and it drives the left crazy, because they still haven’t found the person who can do this, Jessica. JESSICA TARLOV: I can do it.

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