President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was reinstating the names of seven military bases that had been named after Confederates, including their leader, Gen. Robert E. Lee. 

Trump made the announcement during his trip to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, which had briefly taken on the name 'Fort Liberty.' 

In February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that it would be riverted to Fort Bragg, but would be named after a World War II hero, not the problematic Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. 

'For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Robert E. Lee,' Trump told the crowd Tuesday. 

'We won a lot of battles out of those forts,' he continued. 'And I'm superstitious, I like to keep it going right? I'm very superstitious, we want to keep it going, so that's a big story, I just announced it today to you for the first time.'

Trump said he was pressured to wait and make the announcement during Saturday's parade marking his birthday and celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Army. 

'I can't wait!' he said at Fort Bragg. 'I've got to talk to my friends here today.' 

The president's move makes good on a campaign promise he made, not in 2024, but in 2020. 

In the aftermath of George Floyd's death of Memorial Day weekend of 2020 and the 'Black Lives Matter' protests that sprung up from the incident, there were renewed calls to remove Confederate statues and names from public spaces. 

Trump resisted those calls - instead backing the 'Blue Lives Matter' movement, a counter-protest on the American right.  

Still Congress decided to act and the name change for military bases was included in a large defense package that earned bipartisan support. 

Even after he lost the election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, he vetoed the military spending bill in December 2020, which contained language to rename 10 bases originally named for Confederates.