One person fumed on Twitter/X: “This is so stupid and it’s going to make us a laughing stock in front of both our allies and our enemies.”

Another chimed in: “Renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War, because it is more intimidating to our adversaries, is stupid.”

Someone else was just confused: “I don’t understand why he wants to do this? Just a whim?”

And another pointed out the price tag: “Changing the name… is dumb for lots of reasons, but not least of which is it’s just a huge waste of money.”