[_mlbt]

Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution states…

> The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States

That being said, I think it is silly to rename it, but I think a case can be made that he has the Constitutional authority to do so.

[anigbrowl]

Where does that give him the authority to rename bodies established by Congress?

[bediger4000]

I'm not sure I'd read that particular clause in the way you say, but constitutional law is rarefied, and words in the Constitution often don't mean what they would if plain, honest folk used them in convesation

I suppose we're also in need of a Department of the Navy as well, based on your excerpt, but again, Constitutional words don't often have the semantics one might think.

But beyond all that, it's great that we've President Trump to make these hard decisions for us. No president in my lifetime (first voted in 1980 presidential election) would have made the right decision here, not even President Reagan. There would have been hearings, tense meetings with authority figure like the Speaker of the House and various billionaires, and the press would not have let go of it. It would have dominated news cycles for weeks. Can you imagine the punditry if G.W. Bush had done this? But Trump makes the right decision, billionaires are happy, pundits are happy, we just see non-biased, factual reporting. I hope that Trump's successor is equally correct in all these decisions. I don't want to return to the squabbling of the past.