Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested that an increasing number of people are enlisting in the Army because former President Joe Biden is no longer the commander in chief.

The Army reported “the most productive December in 15 years,” with 346 soldiers enlisted every day. This came at a critical moment for the military, which had a recruitment deficit of about 42,000.

“It’s the Trump effect. You had some number of young men and women who didn’t want to join the army over the last four years under Joe Biden and Christine Wormuth, the former secretary of the army, when they thought it was more focused on wokeness and DEI and climate change. That’s not why young men and women join our military,” Cotton said on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “It was at a lot of young people didn’t want to join the army with Joe Biden as the commander in chief.”

Cotton joined the Army as an infantry officer following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The senator explained that people enlist because they “love the country” and “want to serve a cause greater than themselves.” As he reacted to these latest recruitment numbers, he suggested that neither “competitive pay with the private sector” nor “overall economic condition” were obstacles to enlisting.

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“It was at a lot of young people didn’t want to join the army with Joe Biden as the commander in chief,” Cotton said.

This also marked the end of an era that changed the names of nine military bases, which cost roughly $62.4 million, according to retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, who was the vice chairman of the Naming Commission.